Don't work here if you are creative and aspirational - Investment Banking Associate Citi Employee Review

1.0
12 Sept 2016
Recommend
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Pros

#You learn the nuts and bolts of business/microsoft software fairly quickly on the job which is helpful going forward #Exciting for a few years, then you become wiser of the work distracting politics that the place is riddled with

Cons

#Terrible and corrosive company culture. Highly inefficient in every way and treats employees with absolutely no respect #No work life balance #Business lines are not motivated properly, only MD level are (and they don't do any of the work!)

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Pros

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