Barclays has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 22,158 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Barclays employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Finanza industry (3.7 stars).
Benefits are pretty good and they tend to pay a little more than above market rates. The work is certainly challenging and interesting. The Geneva office tends to act as the hub for most of their locations given that their platform is run from there.
Cons
Quite chaotic working with a lack of strategic focus. Significant resource shortages with considerable stress applied to most working teams. I believe that BW in Geneva have one of the highest turn over rates of the private banks in Switzerland...
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78% of Barclays employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews. Employees also rated Barclays 3.9 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.9 for culture and values and 3.7 for career opportunities.
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