Barclays Capital Reviews in Singapore, Singapore Area

Pros

Good work
Great work life balance
Salaries at par

Cons

Very low bonuses
Poor management vision

Advice to Senior Management

Need to have competent Senior managers who can differentiate between deserved candidates and show biz.

Pros

1. Extremely friendly environment, no dog eat dog competition
2. Adequate responsibilities so that you learn faster on the job

Cons

1. Slightly rigid in terms of ideas

Pros

Good opportunities, highly structured IT organisation, plenty of work. Technology is a mix of modern and ancient, but generally quite good.

Cons

The bank is terrified of spending money on IT; projects are cut to the bone and further until everyone is overworked and frantic. Solution design inevitably tends towards simply solving the immediate need with no time or space for flexibility or integration. The wheel is often reinvented.

Advice to Senior Management

Stop being so proud of your ability to change a decision quickly. Make a decision and stick to it. Permit some slack in the IT budget. Programmers are creative, give them the opportunity and they will amaze you.

Pros

Better pay but not excellent.

Cons

New location is bit hard to reach

Advice to Senior Management

Be fair in compensation.

Pros

above average salary
good benefits
training is provided
very professional colleague
good place to work if you want to learn more

Cons

they can fire you anytime they want
workload is very heavy
bonus is not always not good when you are in the analyst level

Advice to Senior Management

treat you employee better

Pros

Multi cultural env and learning env

Cons

long working hours and more then shift hrs working

Advice to Senior Management

more wrok life balance needed

Pros

- Name recognition of one of the biggest investment banks
- Good office location (Singapore)
- Occasional tech trainings are available
- Good bonuses to permanent staff (See Cons)

Cons

- Very high attrition rate
- People are easily let go regardless of tenureship
- Shifting schedule changes every week which is very taxing to the body
- Incompetent upper management (GTA)
- Unfair treatment of contract staff against permanent
- Diversity is working against the production of the team
- Very high politics

Advice to Senior Management

The heads/leads should develop more people skills. They tend to build a barrier which alienates the team and sets a border so stiff which becomes a hindrance to communication.

Pros

Greenfield Opportunity and challenge for technologists

Cons

overly administative, struggling to come to terms with new size and scope

Advice to Senior Management

reduce admin, encourage more innovation

Pros

- Good employee benefits.
- Better work life balance
- International exposure
- Focus on diversity in office
- Lots of other activities to get involved in apart from day job.

Cons

- Incompetent senior management
- Poor appraisal and promotion process.
- No vision, try to bring too many changes without proper consideration
- Hire and fire policy without rationale

Advice to Senior Management

Focus on cons listed above

Pros

Paywise is best in the Singapore

Cons

No career oppurtunities , Senior Mgmt never tried to bridge the communication gap between Do'ers and Managers.

Advice to Senior Management

Barclays Singapore Management needs to change the Management style .