Citadel Investment Reviews

Pros

Highly successful and driven workforce. Outstanding teams and collaboration within businesses. Employees trly do gt the opportunity to work at the cutting edge of finance.

Cons

Work life balance not important to the firm but everyone does have a full slate of holidays. Moving between businesses is relatively difficult

Advice to Senior Management

Improve cross business communication and knowledge sharing

Pros

1. Great benefits.
2. Free Food.
3. Work on the latest technologies.
4. Very high paced.

Cons

1. Poor work/life balance.
2. Managers lack leadership, do not show respect.

Advice to Senior Management

Respect the people who work for you, allow them some time to themselves, you are simply going to burn most of the good people you have.

Pros

Great salary, benefits, facilities. You will face some good challenges which will enhance your abilities. You get the feeling that you are working in a top-tier firm.

Management tends to throw money at a problem when they are having a good year. So, any tool you may need to improve your work will be provided to you.

Cons

You will be completely disconnected from management that's two levels above. You would strive to make your work noticed, but come bonus time, it's your manager's impression that counts. I got to meet my boss's boss once in a year, and with my opinions not being asked for.

Management practices that are common elsewhere are not implemented at Citadel. It feels like a tiny software shop has suddenly grown large all of a sudden, so there are no best practices that are implemented uniformly across the firm. Decisions seem to be taken as if management is flying by the seat of their pants.

It's very difficult to advance to other teams or higher in your own team. Teams are conclaves where very little information gets across to other teams.

There's a lot of burnout. It's hard to build a 5-year stint here. You may stagnate or get stressed out. There's lots of turnover here. The compensation package keeps people going. It's top-of-the-line.

Advice to Senior Management

Get some 360-degree feedback going. Ask rank-and-file members for their opinions on how they see operations running. Discuss upward mobility and possible career paths with employees.

Pros

dynamic fast paced environment. Good regard for technology

Cons

management changes every week or so it feels, The direction changes faster than the wind. No communication between management and employees and when there is one is very misleading.
No appreciation for employees are human beings!

Advice to Senior Management

Incentive employees to grow with the company. Set a direction for the business and give it enough time to succeed.

Pros

Great Benefits
Competitive Salary
good work life balance

Cons

not to much career growth
flat organization

Pros

Citadel has great benefits, ability to interact with smart people throughout the firm. you can be rewarded for your productivity

Cons

Very hard place to work, competitive and often exhausting. The rumors are true, you work hard. Hard to know where the firm is going.

Pros

Hedge fund. Fast-paced. Smart poeple. Small and agile teams

Cons

Hedge fund. Performance evaluated at short terms

Pros

As a hedge fund you get all the different aspect of investment communities since there are so many groups. Also it is very flexiable place where you can grow very quickly.

Cons

The upper management tend to be very impatient and if you don't deliver the result you will be soon get fired. There is no mercy for incompetency.

Advice to Senior Management

Management should take care of the human resource strategy, the current strategy is not going to work in the long term.

Pros

Citadel hires the best people in the industry and you are constantly surrounded by a great team that is pushing for exceptional results.

Cons

The firm is made for people who already have an exceptional skill set and if you are not devoted to your work and development you will not last long.

Advice to Senior Management

It might be possible to develop a better way to share information across groups and foster collaboration that could help the firm.

Pros

Peers are professional and many of them are the best at what they do.
Free catered lunches, breakfasts, and dinners (if you work those hours).
Cutting/bleeding edge technology.
Very fast to implement changes and new technologies.
Name recognition.

Cons

Free catered lunches, breakfasts, and dinners make you fat.
Type A personalities everywhere. You need a tough skin.
Multiple business units and technology units bicker and fight.
Extremely difficult to be promoted. It's easier to leave the company and then come back to climb you way up.

Advice to Senior Management

Stay out of banking. The regulations are stifling our mobility and creativity and slowing us down as a firm. The HFE group is not as hot and innovative as they once were. They seem to be coasting now. Find new ways to innovate.