My boss didn't know what I was employed to do - Anonymous employee Citi Employee Review

2.0
Nov 27, 2009
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great team, if you're hired into a good team. But as the managers typically do not care, a bad team rarely gets better. I loved my team though, until things go awry at a much later stage.

Cons

My boss didn't know what I was employed to do, literally. We never communicated, and I only found out when the secretary got my role wrong and insisted that it was my boss who told her. Hence, no point talking about appraisals..or fair compensaion...or career progression... I couldn't figure what was happening..until..the secretary incident. And when the boss makes it an all boys club, I should have known better than to have stayed and worked my ass off.

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