good work life balance, mediocre professional environment - a good place to retire - Anonymous employee Barclays Employee Review

2.0
Jan 12, 2012
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Business outlook

Pros

work life balance is good - many people work from home.

Cons

- talk of big ambitions but lacking the will to break with a "clubby" past and reward/penalize based - on merit - very political, low levels of trust between senior and middle management - has talked of becoming international for some time but highly UK centric - would prefer if "they" could be more like "us" - technology and HR (talent management) are shockingly poor, even for a large organization

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

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