Citi reviews

Awful place for any sort of intellectual stimulation, and there are no real exit opportunities. You will work with (and probably under) low-caliber people, which is the nature of back-office, and find yourself working at their pace. I was essentially a glorified email server; taking emails from one party and forwarding it to another.

Horrible pay increases: Maybe I'm spoiled, but my performance over the 15 years prior to Citi brought me nothing lower than 6-7% combined raise and bonus between four other companies. Again, that's not average, that's the lowest I have ever received... prior to Citi. So what does this type of performance get me at Citi? Anywhere from 0-2% combined raise and bonus!! It's not just me - of the six other people in my immediate area that have shared this information with me, none had gotten even 2% combined raise or bonus in years. I have spoken to only a couple of other people in IT who are not in my immediate area and they both made a 3-4% raise+bonus sound really good, but very hard to get. I'm sorry, it's not really good nor should it be that hard to get. Everyone in IT says that the Business side gets all of the money - I have only heard these rumors and can't confirm them. Work/Life Balance: My area preaches no more late hours/weekends, etc., but then turn around and schedule an extra 40-50 hours per month. Career advancement: We were told that in order to get promoted, a position at that level has to open up. I have never heard of this outside of Citi. Elsewhere, I have been promoted for doing a good job that deserves a promotion, whether there was an opening or not. I could understand this if you wanted to get into management, but not at any level lower than this. Competence of Senior management: Although no different than almost every other bank out there, senior management took on so much risk with their lending the entire world is now suffering! Banks such as Citi wrote the book on Risk, then decided to throw it away for near-term profits - unbelievable.