Barclays Softwaretest Engineer Reviews

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If you're considering a career move to Barclays, India, it's wise to pause and ponder. The corporate winds are shifting, and not in favor of a gentle breeze. Management, in their quest to pinch pennies, seems to be playing a game of 'how low can you go' with salaries. The HR department, once the custodians of employee welfare, are now crafting policies that might make Kafka smile—if he worked in corporate. Take, for instance, the grand unveiling of the new car lease policy, with Orix riding shotgun. The previous policy was a financial joyride for employees, but alas, it's been driven off the cliff. In its place, a new scheme that seems to have taken a detour from employee benefits. The halls of Barclays have been echoing with the sound of empty desks following the mass layoff fiesta in December. 23. Word on the grapevine is that another round of 'corporate musical chairs' is on the horizon, possibly in the sultry heat of July 2024. The hiring freeze has left managers skating on thin ice, trying to perform a balancing act with the headcount of a skeleton crew. So, if you're mulling over joining the ranks of Barclays, it might be prudent to treat it like a game of hot potato—exciting to consider, but handle with care and maybe don't hold on for too long. Consider it the dessert of your job search buffet: tempting, but perhaps best saved for last....Read More

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Lot of things.

Work Details

Work policy: 3 days/week from office

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

Great WLB and culture. It's dependant on your team a lil bit but generally you're gonna have a chill time.

Dislikes

Outdated tech stack, big organisational moves are incredibly slow, you'll stagnate quite heavily. Office politics. So many of them. Although they're tons of fun so engage in them.

Work Details

Work policy: 2 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

Good for freshers. Compensation is average. Hybrid working. Transport to office provided.

Dislikes

Mostly operations work not much to learn. Teams are huge so lot of competition.

Work Details

Work days: Rotational Shift

Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.

Likes

All the necessary support and opportunities to grow in the interested areas. Switching between departments is easy. Promotions are on time if your work and strategy is inline with organisation goal.

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Nothing

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Product base organisation .very employee centric .

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Some of the project Working on old technology

Work Details

Work policy: 2 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

Work life balance Good ambience Good yearly hike Hybrid work setup

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NA

Work Details

Work policy: 2 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

I like Everything

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I dislike bothibg

Work Details

Work policy: 2 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

Work life balance

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Excepting new technologies

Work Details

Work policy: 2 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Likes

Work life balance is good.

Dislikes

Redudancies are impacting resources in last 2 years. They are backfilling resources at highers rates from vendors by removing employees. Also capable and deserving males are not getting promotions as most of the positions are reserved for diversity.

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Barclays at over all corporate level have good policies

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In Barclays, there is no or weak HR, line manager are made without their skills and caliber, Line manager post is more on favouritism rather than those who deserve it. Line manager make their own rules and decisions and no work ethics i have seen.

Likes

People friendly atmosphere and also they provide cab facilities and one time meal which actually is a good option to survive there

Dislikes

Appraisals are not nice and if an employee is facing any hardships in his or her profile they hardly take any action just to support them in terms of moving that employee to some other profile so that it wouldn’t cause them mentally pressure

Likes

Work life balance. Interesting work

Dislikes

In India growth is stagnant compared to UK. After some level growing in the company becomes very very difficult. Lack of heirarchy bands

Work Details

Work policy: 2 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

Not much

Dislikes

Pathetic management, when they want to cut cost they use issuing pip as tool to cut hike and bonus they never spend on anything be it skill development, departmental events, or any other perk don't recommend working here.

Work Details

Work policy: 2 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

The company culture is very good. The transportation service is absolutely free and top notch. The office at pune is a great architecture.

Dislikes

The job security recently has gone down post recent lay offs and their 3 years plan.

Work Details

Work policy: 2 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

Better place to learn.

Dislikes

I work in Barclays LTS office, Pune. GTIS in Barclays is the worst department to work with. I would suggest better to work with other departments rather than working in GTIS. Appraisal and promotions are very less as compared to other departments. During Diwali and Christmas as well management of GTIS gives nothing to it's employeesnor sweets nor gifts. During year end review management has only one reason that company is in loss so less increment this year but people working in management get good humesha. Every year we got to know the same reason from the management. Very less bonus is given , in that too half of the bonus is deducted in Tax 🥺 Barclays GTIS is doing much of the cost cutting. Office politics and feviritism is also the other problem here. They give less respect for the people working for more than 10 years. They get very less increment as compared to the one who are newly hired. I have been working in Barclays for more than 10 years still my monthly in-hand salary is less than 1 lac which is so much disappointing to me. Barclays values are just followed on paper and not in practical....Read More

Work Details

Work policy: 2 days/week from office

Work days: Rotational Shift (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

The office space is good, work is intresting if your teams works on solving for core banking technologies, pay is average but if you bargain hard there is a chance they might stretch their budget. Team cultures is pretty laid back with middle aged folks who want to settle in their roles.

Dislikes

There's a fair amount of office politics, people usually settle into their role and don't adapt quickly to new technologies and being a bank innovative solutions take a back step and all the soltions have to be vetted for security approvals

Work Details

Work policy: 2 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.