one of the worst periods of my life - Assistant Vice President - Communications Barclays Employee Review

1.0
9 Nov 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

some good facilities and up to date technologies

Cons

The most vicious culture. Back-stabbing and pathological bullying. i saw a whole team of people hired at a certain level just to be bullied once inside for not fitting the mould. constant shifting priorities and huge change in job roles once inside. it's like they hire you promise you a lot then force you to regress to office junior/tea boy or girl whatever your level hired at until you've proved yourself inside which means sucking up and not at all performance or results orientated. micromanagement of everyone to the point of orwellian nightmare and just a generally nasty place.

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Cons

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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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