Barclays Software Developer reviews

4.0

80% would recommend to a friend

(643 total reviews)
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C.S. Venkatakrishnan

76% approve of CEO

75% positive business outlook

Software Engineer/Developer employees have rated Barclays with 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 643 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Engineer/Developer professionals have a good working experience there. Barclays is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Engineer/Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Finanzen industry (3.7 stars).

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643 reviews
3.0
Feb 3, 2020

No improvement

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Pros

Pays over average, no benefits bullshitting. Safe position. Great flexibility if you have family: flexible hours, occasional home office possibility, option for part time. Diversity in every sense.

Cons

As for feedback and improvement ideas: full force against such from management. First nobody wants to improve things. Then, if somebody wants so, nobody listens. Then if somebody listens, nothing happens. What finally may happen is that they tell you to shut up and work; unless there is scandal. When scandal comes, managers start to push responsibility downwards. Technology: there are new technologies but since nobody has the view on those, they work worse than old ones. Bureaucracy: impossible to achieve any goal in the time frame it would make sense. Not complaining about 3 days instead of 2... but more than a year instead of less than a month?! Internal tooling unusable. Talent retention: it's considered something that HR must solve alone, quickly and possibly without expense. What we get is an insult from employee perspective. Environment: the office is _dirty._

2.0
Jan 14, 2020

Bad Experience

Recommend
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Pros

Decent salary, work-life balance

Cons

Horrible technologies, bad projects, incredible bureaucracy, nobody wants to improve anything

5.0
Dec 10, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Great projects, great people, great technology

Cons

deadlines can be very tight many times

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Barclays Response
6y
Thanks for your positive feedback and great to read. I am sure the tight deadlines are driven by a strong drive to deliver for our customers and improve their experience with us; something we will not change.
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