Always overtime, chaos, cheap outsourcers is the way to go! - Software Developer Barclays Employee Review

1.0
Mar 30, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

I hardly can say something here. Look for pros at some other reviews.

Cons

1. They hire people with terrible English. Some managers worship naive and cheap students at outsourcing locations. You can easily find at those places incompetent and quarrelsome people who don't have any basics of work ethics, responsibility, and essentially don’t understand what they are doing. 2. If you are a professional software developer you better avoid this place, you have to be crazy to go work there. At some places people shoot emails late night and across weekends and try to meet fascist deadlines. 3. It doesn't matter how good you are or whether you are right. Once you shown a mirror to your manager you will be always shown in a bad light. Objective difficulties to meet a deadline are not considered. It is always only your low performance is the root of all evils. 4. If you work at outsourcing location you will be cut off from many things they do in London. You have to guess what they know or decided or already done. You better guess well otherwise you will be labeled incompetent and stupid. As soon as one knows something it is a weapon to present itself as a smart and competent. Don’t expect too much help from anyone. 5. Have a good salary? Watch your back then! They will fire you first as soon as you finished all they wanted you to do, unless you are a one’s favorite.

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Pros

Chill and work life balance

Cons

no money, no increment, check

3.0
May 11, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Workload is manageable they don’t put too much on you. Hybrid you come into office once a week.

Cons

Some managers are nice some are not and if you have a manager who doesn’t like you it will make the job stressful. If you get a zero for QA part of your bonus will be gone and if you get 3 within a 7 month period you will have to come into office 3 days a week and be on a final and will not get a bonus, bonuses could be higher in my opinion, if your not a good collector they could be as low as $500-$700 every 3 months if your a decent collector they could be $1500 every 3 months if your a good collector they could be $2250-$3375 every 3 months but the base pay isn’t high enough either it’s 50k to 56k all around just not enough money

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