BGI - great place to work - Senior Software Engineer Barclays Employee Review

5.0
Jul 25, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Excellent hours worked and a willingness to allow employees time off when necessary Very smart and skilled management Good people work here, which makes the workplace fun and invigorating Good renumeration

Cons

In IT? It's a bank, so the focus isn't on IT staff, but business people. There's often not enough work to keep you busy, there's a LOT of downtime here, which is nice at first, but then becomes boring.

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

Pay is the lowest compared to similar company with the same role. Upper management speaks to staff with a patronizing tone; cutting them off, and talking down to them. At times it felt like they purposefully were attempting to find things wrong instead of working together as a team to meet objectives. Understaffed. Fully expected to do the work of a team of 6 despite being a team of 2 for example.

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