Citi Reviews

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

Pros – Highest integrity standards of people

Cons – Shrinking bank. Transforming to resize itself. Growth looks far off in the future.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – Good team environment. Global and recognised brand. Scope to progress

Cons – Too manual and antiquated in terms of processes. No dynamic innovation. Not good work/life balance.

– I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

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

Pros – Money, skills opportunity. Viewed well by other employers in local market. Can get lucky and get a good team.

Cons – Hours, can be a hateful place to work, very political. Take the experience and run to London. Experience is dependent on which team you are put in so somewhat of a dice game unless you are coming in by knowing someone.

Advice to Senior Management – Decide on something and then do it. Less mind changing and running with the latest fad. Different departments are running in different directions!

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

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

Pros – It's a global investment bank.
Modern and great location.
New and exciting systems and processes.

Cons – Perhaps a more developed buddy/mentor system for interns.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep developing and innovating. Keep giving employees the best treatment.

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

Former Employee – worked at Citi

Pros – Working in a large bank is always good in terms of gaining experience in different areas and working on major deals. Also the salary is higher than the industry standard.

Cons – Working long hours, with little appreciation from your colleagues. Having to work on multiple project at any one time with almost impossible deadlines. High stress environment.

Advice to Senior Management – Dedicate more time to junior bankers.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

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

Pros – Good working environment
Managers tend to trust their employees
There are good programs for in-house training, in several fields, mostly business-related
Sober and friendly mood
Good work-life balance

Cons – Too much bureaucracy
Slow career path
Lots of legacy web applications to use for doing anything useful
Not much visibility about other deparments and projects
Recent tendency to centralize most interesting stuff (projects, training) in NY, rather than London

Advice to Senior Management – Streamline procedures
Give the employees more options to change and progress

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

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

Pros – Good team, strategy to encourage mobility, wide range of people to interact with, wide range of roles available

Cons – very big company, wide range of people to interact with, a long way to the top

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

Former Employee – worked at Citi as a contractor for more than a year

Pros – Good at making it look like they are the bees knees

Cons – All is not what it seems, they take people on who are FoaFoaF (Friend of a Friend of a Friend) and from their outsourced partners in India, and pay them peanuts and if you are not of the same background you are going nowhere! They just expect you to take all the crap they throw at you and give you a crappy Citi pre paid card with £50 on it for Xmas bonus BOLLOX!

Advice to Senior Management – Look at how and who your managers /directors recruit no wonder Vikram CEO left with his tail between his legs

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 less than a year

Pros – Citis rotational program offers excellent flexibility, great work life balance. I really feel as through I can gain whatever skills and experience I need during the program. Its a highly respected program with in the organization and I also get a sense that graduates of the program do excel if they focus.

Cons – Like working at any other global bank, there is too much red tape. You need to obtain approvals for many minute details and overall accountability through out the organization is low. If you have an overall mentality of "lets get things done" it can be difficult.

Advice to Senior Management – -Increase accountability through out the organization.
-Performance should be judged on objective criteria rather than politics

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

Former Employee – worked at Citi as a contractor for more than a year

Pros – Fast Paced. In contact with different industries. The satisfaction of delivering a high quality client service that citi prides itself in.

Cons – Rivalry and miscommunication. Management never honest and direct. Unneccessary stress and blaming in the team.

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