Citi Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Citi full-time

Pros – If you are a self-starter Citi is a great please to start a career.

Cons – I have no Cons as it relates to Citi.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Citi full-time for more than a year

Pros – Management gave trust in allowing me to develop my position, valued my expertise and opinion. Those who are ambitious and wish to move up in the company can post with in and potentially move up.
Hiring and onboarding process was efficient.

Cons – Nothing really negative to say. Some historical information about the company was delivered during new hire orientation..not extremely interesting....

Advice to Senior Management – Great Job.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Citi as an intern for less than a year

Pros – Great atmosphere in the workplace and great campus
Everyone was very supportive
Real World experience, you work as much as everyone else
Learned a LOT

Cons – Long hours; I stayed late on most days.
Not much training; you're throwing into the battle after your first week

Advice to Senior Management – Develop an intern to employee transition program. It would be nice to have a transition from the internship program to a development program of some sort.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Citi full-time for less than a year

Pros – not very busy, a lot of leisure

Cons – low pay, hard to pay rent

Advice to Senior Management – not really

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Citi

Pros – Myriad of learning opportunities
Global Presence
Brand Name

Cons – Myriad of learning opportunities with no guidance from higher ups. Pervasive bureaucracy throughout

Advice to Senior Management – Invest in better management that can serve examples and emphasize talent development to decrease constant attrition. Allow easier lateral transfers.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Citi full-time for less than a year

Pros – good manager and teammates, they will help you get things done.

Cons – layoffs without any reason despite you are doing good and needed to do that job.

Advice to Senior Management – stop throwing changes to the employee and let them do the job

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Citi full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Not many left. There used to be some respect and team atmosphere. Some of the buildings are ok. All I can really think of as a solid positive is probably having Citi on your resume might open doors for you else where.

Cons – Intensely political, meaning that who you know matters far more than anything else. Game playing management tactics abound. If you are not playing golf and loosing to the boss in the right way they'll manage you out.
Not many people are fired, management will have a lot of fun managing you out. There is so much deadwood due to political promotions, the buddy system and sheer machinations that there are very few competent enough to do the work. If you are demonstrating you know your job and are willing to go the extra mile then woe to you. Essentially what happens is all the work that should have been done by favorites will be loaded onto you. They set you up to fail. They will joke about you in management meetings. "that fool, that looser"
How do you survive? Fit in. Find out immediately what your department managers are like. If you are a xerox copy of them, maybe you'll be invited into the club. You'll get 1's and 2's no matter what. Ramble on in endless sentences in the interminable meetings. Ape the speech patterns of the bosses.
Basically the culture is hard core Brooklyn NYC: antagonistic, cut throat, devious and full of power games. It's street hustling, machiavellian types that get ahead. If you are professional, forget it. This is a filthy knife fight in the streets. Departments are rival gangs. It all comes down to fists.
The little people by and large are nice. They don't get promoted. They don't fit in. Don't be nice. Don't play by the rules. It's better to drive the work than do the work. That's what's valued. The work is nothing. Talk loud and interrupt others. Be unpredictable. Make the work harder and criticize everyone and everything below you. Make your coworkers look like fools. Humiliate, denigrate, subvert, undermine. Suck up to those above you.

Advice to Senior Management – Is this a joke?

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Citi full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – People are generally proud to work for Citi. Senior management is trying hard to turn the company around.

Cons – Management tends to be short-term focused. The pendulum swings depends on the quarterly financials.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Citi full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Great benefits and flexibilty. Oppurtunities for growth

Cons – Lower pay, Bonuses are minimum

Current Employee – been working at Citi full-time for more than a year

Pros – It is a more laid-back atmosphere, and in most cases provides good work-life balance. Working from home remote is on a more widely accepted.

Cons – Spends considerable effort defeating itself with excessive bureaucracy, and a simple lack of planning, and good decision making. Better execution would result with higher quality people, yet Citi seems to look at IT Talent as a commodity and still relies too-heavily on out-sourcing.

Advice to Senior Management – Spend the money, hire good talent.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend