Barcap, a firm within a firm - Manager Barclays Employee Review

3.0
Mar 18, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

- good growth potential - focussed and competent management team - more horizontal culture compared to other investment banks - overall staff is highly competent technically

Cons

- Very political environment, in my team anyways, with a closely knit 'old guard' of people who have been with barcap for a long time, mostly british people, against a number of new hires, mostly Europeans. There is somewhat of a difference of culture, and in takes a long time and a fair amount of diplomacy to get through - Bank is less well organised than other investment banks, with less efficient support teams and more amateurish processes.

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5.0
Jul 6, 2026
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Pros

Good environment to work in

Cons

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4.0
Jul 6, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Great starting place for career, learned a ton

Cons

Mixed bag of senior team quality depending on group/vertical Bad culture in certain groups

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