Barclays Capital Employer Reviews

Overall the experince was great. There was tremendous learning opportunity.

Interesting / Challeging

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A typical day at work - I usually came in between 7:30-8:00am reviewed and replied to my emails, globally. This task varied in time frame since some days I'd reecive requests from other branches to approve new lines, increases, decreases, cancellation, etc. and credit lines had to be reviewed prior to approving anything.

Reviewed requests from sales – more... traders for new products and had close contact with Legal to review documentation for specific product and specific clouse prior to approving.

Daily management of the country risk sanctioning system including validation of country risk exposure and coordination of limit sanctioning and approvals.

My resume details my duties.

I had a great boss, and management in general was fine.

My co-workers learned a lot from me. I have the most possitive way of thinking, professionally and personally. If we have a good team we can accompplish anything as long as we respect feach other and allow to provide ideas to better the system.

The hardest part of the job I guess was when multi tasks had a dead line.

The most enjoyable part of the job was when the multi tasks were completed, and at the end of the day I felt I had accomplished a lot. – less

I like working in this Company. My co-workers are very helpful. I have learned lot of different things.

Barkley's Bank is a slow paced work environment that allowed you to get your work done with no interruptions.

A great company to work for. Allows work and personal life balance. Great managers and great peers. Very friendly, and respectful place.

Responsible for the daily review and authorization of customer segregated and secured reports sent to internal finance group, regulatory organizations and exchanges such as CFTC, FINRA, and FIA. Promoted within 3 years of starting there.

Typical Day at work
Coordinating with the Business Analysts for requirements
Coding
Code Reviews from offshore teams

What you Learnt
New Technologies
Business Knowledge in Fixed Income

Friendly environment, very long hours, limited flexibility in your work schedule

On a daily basis I deal with between 50-100 events, both large and small scale, as well as ongoing projects and special requests from Barclay's executive board. I find my job highly rewarding in the sense that when an event takes place without incident or mishap, I am personally responsible for it. Having members of my organization trust me to carry – more... out their wishes is an honor. My co-workers and I work as a team, and although every day is demanding and difficult, my meticulous nature and thorough methods ensure my success, day in & out. – less

• Working as primary liaison with Business, QA and Development teams for major releases, recreation of customer issues, subsequent patch testing and successful release of patches and service packs to clients.
• Managing and performing hands on project planning, auditing of system requirements, creation of documentation, tracking progress metrics and – more... defects through Quality Center and mentoring the off-shore team.
• Coordinated with the offshore team the project deliverables and making sure the project deadlines are met in order to deployment the application in production on time.
• Setup walkthroughs and live meeting demos for QA offshore team to get the initial view and feel of the application under test.
• Conducted Gap analysis on scenarios and scripts created by the QA offshore team to make sure all the requirements were covered.
• Performed Data Profiling of current state of data in the Data Warehouse by doing Data Analysis using advanced SQL Queries and Microsoft Excel, finding Gaps in Data and formulating solutions for the same
• Involved in producing various reports by extracting basic data from Oracle tables using Toad and sorting and summing the data in different ways.
• Worked closely with the UAT team and assisted them when needed.
• Wrote Test Plans and played key role in dividing the Testing effort between automation and manual Testing teams.
• Setup Defect Review meetings with the IT team and QA offshore team. Send daily testing status report to all the stakeholders involved with the project.
• Responsible for maintaining and managing requirements and defects in HPQC.
• Created project sign off documents and provided Go no Go decision based upon testing results.
• Involved in writing complex scripts that supported file transfers to and from the UNIX file servers
• Ran scripts on UNIX box to test bulk loads, nightly/hourly feeds and batch processes.
• Reengineered QA methodologies and processes that resulted in establishment of complete traceability of requirements and enhanced test quality.
• Managing various QA phases and performing hands on testing including Regression, Functionality and Pre Release testing of the Retirements products.
• Performing internal audits at project management level for ensuring compliance with SDLC standards.
• Managed the offshore-based automation test teams responsible for regression testing of the product.
• Followed Agile testing methodology model to compliment development in incremental, rapid cycles.
• Performing extensive manual and XML API testing on a continuous basis for enhancement releases and patches. – less

Typical day: Consistent correspondence with specific business areas within Operation to successfully deliver a series of risk metrics; focus on meeting deadlines for each phase of the project
What I learned: How to be successful in completing each project phase within agreed upon deadlines; how to manage all phase of a project required for successful – more... delivery of end product
Management: I was fortunate to have reported to supportive, approachable & extremely experienced managers during my time at Barclays
Co-workers: Approachable, friendly and intelligent with a team player mentality
Hardest part of the job: Maintaining stakeholder engagement, as support from senior management was compromised after the Global Head of Ops (original program sponsor and key point of escalation) left the firm. This subsequently led to a reduction in overall participation by most of the business lines.
Most enjoyable part of the day: Successfully utilizing the acquired skills, techniques and problem solving methodologies needed to effectively and efficiently complete each project phase; Also, daily interactions with our development & production support teams, leading to a better understanding of the technical processes that must be carried out to ensure successful metrics delivery to our clients in Operations. – less

Great work atmosphere great work balance Coworkers are great I learned a lot and was able to grow as a individual however not a great deal of opportunity to grown in the company career wise

stay away. Job functions are being migrated overseas. Very stressful, no work/life balance

It is a chalenging business ,you have to be serious and vigilant .

Open work plan. No offices no cubicles for those below Director. Even non-traders sit in a trader format work space. Very noisy, difficult to do any work that requires thinking.

The management is more a Lehman rehash than Barclays Capital. As a result very few of the original Barclays Capital employees survived the lay offs that seem to come every – more... year since the acquisition.

Management is unschooled in the basics of management and developement of employees. All power is held at the Managing Director/ Director levels. Supervisors below that level have no say in the grading of their direct reports. The grades come down and you're expected to make the write up fit.

Technical training for many roles is virtually non-existent and completely dependent upon individuals being trained by their peers or having developed system skills at prior employers.

Co-workers are now from a variety of banks on the street. Former Lehman employees still dominate the mix. No coherent "Barclays" management approach or culture exists in NY. – less

I was able to gain a lot of product knowledge and was given the freedom to innovate and improve process, as well as build my own; however, I found that comp and promotions were not based on merit/value added and instead were based more on personal relationships within the team.

I was able to gain a lot of product knowledge and was given the freedom to innovate and improve process, as well as build my own; however, I found that comp and promotions were not based on merit/value added and instead were based more on personal relationships within the team.

Watch out for senior management, they can easily form negative opinions without ever working with you.

Great place to work.
Co workers are great to work with.
The most enjoyable part of the job is flexibility.