Citi reviews

The firm only care about how much assets you bring in as a financial advisor. Therefore, the firm train you well on how to prospect relentlessly but you have to basically self-learn about products, how to use technology, and how to do administrative paperworks. You are really independent from day one, and it is quite overwhelming. I was so disappointed by the firm's lack of support in terms of product or financial planning education for new FAAs. You have to bring in about a million dollar a month to be a very successful FA and it is very very difficult unless you have rich family background or established book of business.

Dysfunctional management with minimal insight into actual banking operations. The institution was literally too large due to ill throughout and/or mistimed acquisitions. As a result, Numerous systems existed that did not "talk" one another. Moreover, there was minimal inter-departmental cooperation. This often led to mid-level management being unable to deliver acceptable level of customer support. Compounding this issue was that certain areas were ofter moved from the Consumer Bank to the Investment Bank with little thought to the actual impact on the business unit itself and ultimately its clients.