Citadel Reviews

3.9

70% would recommend to a friend

(760 total reviews)
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Ken Griffin

84% approve of CEO

80% positive business outlook

Citadel has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 760 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Citadel 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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760 reviews
4.0
8 Aug 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

You will learn lots, everyone is smart and have something to teach you

Cons

hire and fire, you can be fired for anything. Performance bad ? fired, PM blew up ? fired. Going to the toilet to do your business too much ? fired, say wrong thing to a wrong guy ? fired. Talk too much ? fired. Talk too little ? fired

1.0
21 Feb 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

There are good benefits and free lunch.

Cons

With all of the firing that happens here is a bit like being in South America during the period of the forced disappearances. As such it's hard to make friends and build working relationships in this environment. For example, one day we were taken to a room by the COO of our fund and told that lot of the traders had been sacked, the next week we get an email telling us the COO has been sacked. During the time I had there I saw entire teams disappear and in one case an entire fund that was not profitable (traders, developers, trade support staff).

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Citadel Response
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Hi, we take all feedback on building a career as a Quantitative Developer at Citadel seriously. We’ll make sure your feedback is used to continuously strengthen our performance appraisal and feedback mechanisms. Feel free to send any other feedback to me, Jonathan Blank (jonathan.blank@citadel.com), and I'll make sure it is sent to the appropriate people.
1.0
30 Jul 2020

Toxic culture

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good salary- but not worth the money

Cons

Toxic culture Bullying is encouraged and you are not seen as being good at your job unless you bully those around you Claim to be meritocratic but promote purely based on favouritism. Will also fire good talent because they decide they’re not the favourites anymore

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