Citi reviews

3.6

65% would recommend to a friend

(36,514 total reviews)
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Jane Fraser

67% approve of CEO

57% positive business outlook

Citi has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 36,514 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Citi employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Finanzen industry (3.7 stars).

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37K reviews
1.0
Aug 5, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Incentives are okay(given you pass all thr requirements). Once endorsed to the floor, toxicity decreases slightly so.

Cons

As the title states, the unprofessionalism from a majority of HR staff to Trianers to Managers is masked by their professional attire and "tone". I've never felt as isolated as I've ever been in all my experience when going through their training process. Trainers should be properly taught how to get full class participation by asking all trainees individually whether they follow the topic or not instead of rewarding *forgive the lack for a better term* Jollibee trainees. Grouping trainees into separate groups and applying a point system for participation does well for individuals who are competitive and *again forgive the terminology* Jollibee by nature. This completely backfires for other personality types(especially if they're part of a group thats losing in points). Obvious favoritism from managers present during such process. HR had a very threatening tone prior to my employment and during. Compensantion ceiling is very lackluster considering inflation in The Philippines. Company culture can be put into 2 simple words, Overinflated Ego. Yes I understand that you're supposed to have pride when you work for your company. But trust me when I say, they're over the top. TLDR; there are better options out there considering the call volume and toxicity of the environment. It isn't worth it.

2.0
Jun 13, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Citi has fairly sound governance and policies, great place to learn

Cons

Lots of turnover in the C-suite since late 2018 and new management is committed to a strategy focused on expense reductions. Telework is disappearing, as too many layers of substandard management value employee presence more than work. Internal mobility is non-existent.

2.0
Dec 26, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Lots of Holidays. Club Mahindra Membership. Free AC Cabs. Financial Domain Expertise.

Cons

Worst work life balance. No appreciation for the hard work. No room for technology advancement. No room for professional growth. Lot of Politics. Favouratism. Management and senior managers don't care. US counterparts don't value your time. They have open door policy but it's a myth. There is just illusion that they work on BigData. There is not great work happening in India offices. They are just doing production support. The cream work and technical development and decisions all happens outside India. Long working hours. Those people who talks to busi ess don't understand a thing how technology works. They show you that they are very knowledgeable and technically advanced but don't gets fool around and then come with an unrealistic timeliness which you have to adhere to. No project plan and hence you end up with no time to complete the project and ultimately loooong working hours no, family time. Literally you will be in office till 10 or 12 in night and then you will go home and again work since US people wants you to work in there time as well. You will not be able to learn anything technically. If you are not so called favourites of any senior management people then you are doomed. Nobody will care for you and your ideas. All will be dumped. Everybody will give you an illusion that every decision is taken care from India, but all that matters is senior people sitting in US. All in all of you just want to get a feel how a bank works then only join, for now atleast. Otherwise your growth will be stagnant. A lot of openings even at senior positions will be there since the attrition rate is very high. They have tool in place which monitors your desktop activities and then you will be questioned again why you spent that much time on browser and why you have not completed this much hours.. Day by day it is becoming a service industry and not a bank. Disclaimer: This is my personal experience. May be other teams or managers are good. But overall this is happening in most of the teams.

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