Barings reviews

3.6

57% would recommend to a friend

(346 total reviews)
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Michael Freno

68% approve of CEO

48% positive business outlook

Barings has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 346 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Barings employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Finance industry (3.7 stars).

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346 reviews
1.0
Nov 1, 2021

Tone deaf

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Mass Mutual backstop is the only reason Barings still exists. As a stand alone company, would not have made it.

Cons

Leadership flies to London to promote their vision, mission and values. This includes ESG, digital transformation and DEI. Has been said before but we clearly saw most of this leadership rank composed of white men, save for the very nice DEI person. Just inward backward thinking which is all talk and no action. Or as you say in America, all hat no horse. Then on digital transformation, no one from Technology was present. Actually no one from technology is even on the leadership team, yet we are told how important this digitization effort is. Bravo!

1.0
May 1, 2022

Awful

Recommend
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Pros

Struggling to think of any

Cons

Arrogant sales team, claim to consider ESG but it’s greenwashing at best.

2.0
May 25, 2022

Increasingly toxic environment

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Social events are beginning to return, which helps to break down department boundaries. Social clubs help to build a community feeling. Nice office and location. Onsite canteen and friendly catering team Good pension contribution

Cons

Poor training/mentoring. Promised coaching and development but have been neglected by manager to date, while learning & development infrastructure appears to be lacking. Poor morale amongst team, not helped by toxic leadership style. Not the team approach I was sold, seems manager takes ownership of positive outcomes without acknowledging contribution from colleagues. Increasingly regular occurance of demoralising and dismissive commentary in front of colleagues, as well as stereotypical commentary regarding ones own background Sexist comments received from more experienced employees regarding future promotions coming about purely as a result of gender Compensation could certainly be better, particularly for the hours required and acceptance of hostile commentary Wfh deemed as holidays and not productive - seems to be more of a generational divide on this topic. Iniatives like ''Summer fridays'' promoted for wellbeing, and volunteering days only seem to be relevant for the select few

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