Citi reviews

3.6

65% would recommend to a friend

(36,530 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 36,530 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
Mar 11, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

* You too can sit in those Zoom meetings forever, be marked as present and pass performance reviews.

Cons

* Hordes of middle management and their minions talking pipe dreams in endless Zoom meetings, eventually getting their projects cancelled and moving onto next. * Half of meetings are spent deciding which communication tool to use for desktop sharing, then setting it up, since there are 3 used simultaneously. * Tons of poorly configured and disjointed company wide tools, overlapping each other doing same things in different and incompatible ways. * You need to open 3-4 tickets in different systems just to get a simple task completed or obtain basic access. * Total lack of security culture on developer level, publishing their private data on every platform possible. * Sending huge stacks of attached files over email without making use of content management systems, resulting in tons of outdated versions floating all over the place. * Professionals with up to date expertise and real world achievements are being pushed out because nobody wants change. Why would they? * Endless bureaucracy, micromanaging every little aspect, they cannot have groups control their own applications or related infrastructure, there must be a dozen other teams overlapping on top, blocking your every move. So they can sit in meetings forever and keep themselves employed.

1.0
Mar 3, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

None. This is a terrible, disorganized company to work for. Biggest mistake in my 30 year professional career was coming to work for Citi

Cons

Constant reorgs, I was twice moved into jobs that I had no professional experience in. Company prefers to hire from outside despite HR’s constant propaganda of making a lateral move for your career at Citi. As a Hispanic female, I was frequently used in the interview process for internal postings to satisfy minority interview quotas set by Citi.

3.0
Feb 14, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Mobility between businesses. Opportunities to work and travel overseas. Rich and deep corporate history and culture. The work can be meaningful and motivating if you are responsible for a business unit. It is a company that operates on a truly grand and complex multinational scale.

Cons

At the entry level Citi payroll is pretty low as a percentage of total expenses. In other words, they do not pay well compared to other institutions. There is a highly politicized corporate culture. It is this way in two senses, internal politics is more significant than other companies, the "who you know is the most valuable skill set" approach. Secondarily, the company is woke to a fault. If you do not see your role as transformative of society towards fashionable social trends as well as profit driven, keep your thoughts to yourself.

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