Pros
This is a place where careers go to die. If you want a place to park your career and come into work and do nothing this is the perfect place for doing that
Cons
In my ten years career, I have never worked with such a bunch of talentLESS, stupid people. Most of the people in Barclays have no expertise in their respective fields. Most people are unaware of the latest technologies, the latest best practices and are still stuck in the year 2000. Meeting after meetings about the most trivial thing, meetings to decide meetings, meetings to prepare power points, meeting to decide everything. In one of the meetings I was in, it took 26 members of the leadership team 1 hour to decide to add an additional column in an excel spreadsheet. (I am not joking) Most of my colleagues and managers are unfit for jobs outside of Barclays. Their skill sets are out dated and most of them are just plain stupid. No wonder some employees review Barclays as a "great place to work" and "fast paced".