Good pay and benefits overshadowed by low morale and political dysfunction - Senior Software Engineer Citi Employee Review

3.0
May 19, 2026
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Pros

- Good pay relative to Belfast market for senior SWEs - Generous benefits package - Large scale projects to work on across the application estate - Modern-ish tech stack

Cons

- Abysmal morale within the company despite making $3+ billion per quarter in profit since 2024 - Internal politics is a huge drag on getting anything done, frequently eels like teams work against rather than with one another - Average skill level of colleagues worldwide is poor, pervasive culture of managers whose main goal is to grow their "clique" in headcount terms over everything else, combined with RIF initiatives/headcount reductions at the expense of institutional knowledge, creating a toxic ambient environment (both encouraged by leadership)

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Pros

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Cons

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