Barclays Group

[XTC]

Anyone worked for one of the Barclays groups b4? Capital, Wealth etc Thoughts?

[portseven]

Worked for Barclays: Enable which is basically the banks IT infrastructure group. I was there a few times, had its good and bad points.

Good points being, long gigs, the fact that you could hide in a corner and get a good long contract out of it. Lots of opportunity to go from team to team on different contracts. I was at Radders too, so the environment was good to work in.

Bad points, contractors are usually in via their preferred agency and as such quite a static contract, not much room for ir35 negotiations. Every now and they they have a purge on contractors, something like take a 20% rate cut or leave.

[Churchill]

I've been at Radders too, twice...

Once on an Andersons project, the second it was Xansa (formerly "Feminists International Group").

[portseven]

I was there twice, each time through Spring. Working in the DC Management Team

[shoes]

Where are these barclays groups offices located?

[swissmike]

It won't be Poole as they're closing the Poole office in 3 years and halving the number of staff there - announced yesterday

Wealth are moving from near Tower Bridge to the HQ in Canary Wharf and BarCap are near Canary Wharf

[SoupDragon]

I did a C++ brainbench test for Barclays Capital yesterday.

It was teh hard

[lukemg]

Did over 5 years at Radbroke a few years back (yeah I know disguised permie) set me up nicely, nice site etc Got into a terrible rut though and glad to be outsourced and requested to leave in the end.
Won the Mike Green cup twice also....which was nice !

[Gonzo]

This was discussed not that long ago

http://forums.contractoruk.com/threa...-barclays.html

[BlasterBates]

I did a C++ brainbench test for Barclays Capital yesterday.

It was teh hard

You have to practice it. The chances are that if you didn't you'll have failed. They usually expect 70% plus.

You can do practice runs, which are quite cheap.