Citigroup Reviews in New York City, NY Area

Pros

Good global organization, great international opportunities.

Cons

Organization is sometimes too large and cumbersome, management has a hard time managing all of the divisions and it lacks cohesion.

Advice to Senior Management

Streamline the organization and understand the best places to generate revenue.

Pros

1) Great Management Associate program
2) Global firm with high brand equity

Cons

1) Not paid market value
2) Not good at retaining talent

Advice to Senior Management

Look to keeping talent, why lose well qualified people to the market only to rehire them by paying more ?

Pros

Large company with a lot of opportunities for advancement, good benefits, recognizable name and good networking. Overall basic benefits of a global company.

Cons

It is a large company so it is hard to stand out and get appreciation for the work that you do.

Advice to Senior Management

It takes a lot of people to make the company run successfully, take the time to recognize everyone who contributes.

Pros

Work/life balance
close to home
not too stressful
a lot of room to run errands during lunch
learned a lot
good vacation time
summer hours

Cons

For 2 years straight, no raise or bonus
have to fight for promotion or any money
given promotions come with no money raise unless fought for
not good tuition reimbursement
managers generally lazy
applications that are pushed dont work well

Advice to Senior Management

Instead of hiring people from the outside for senior or supervisory positions, hire from within and give raises.

Pros

big firm, a lot of learning opportunities and stable

Cons

I think work efficiency is not as high as I expected before

Advice to Senior Management

A lot of meetings might not be really necessary.

Pros

well-know company, Stable job, market salary, nice people, good managment.
Better work-life balance than other investment bank on wall street.

Cons

Process slow, so hard to get required access, the cooperations between teams and group; Politics, Bureaucratic like other large company.

Pros

Global presence
Diversity
Amazing Business School
Very loyal employees, not always compensated for the hard work

Cons

Incompetent senior management
Company lost credibility
Highly dissatisfied employees

Advice to Senior Management

Start listening to your employees and your customers.

Pros

Diversity of career options in one firm

Cons

Bureaucracy can be an issue if you are not adept at navigating silos

Pros

Financial backing for our CapEx needs, Diverse and challening group to work with

Cons

Round after round of rif's made it distracting, glacial pace of change

Pros

Opportunities to learn and work with some talented individuals. When times were good, pay raises and bonuses were awarded annually. A decent 401k plan.

Cons

Department managers did not always reward performance. There was no such thing as a "safe" environment to express your disagreements or concerns with their management style or any issues you had with how the department was run. Managers used company layoffs as a means of weeding out anyone who didn't share their views.

Advice to Senior Management

The VOE is not a safe tool for employees to express their true feelings without fear of reprisal, and effective change will never come as a result of it.