Pockets and Layers of Seriously Poor Management - Senior Vice President Citi Employee Review

2.0
1 Dec 2010
Recommend
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Pros

Overall enormous company that means well and has global reach to do so. Extremely diverse in job types. Committed to Green technologies and practices. Full of brilliantly talented people that only want to help make the company better.

Cons

The company is absolutely not too large to fail. The sheer size of the company allows for pockets and layers of extremely poor management to thrive using outdated, archaic management practices and defeat all attempts to improve the company with new ideas and technology. Entire departments and divisions led by poor management can self destruct before management layers high enough up to do anything about it even notice. Employees who come in from other more successful companies with far superior best practices and ideas are easily shut down and soon ushered out the door because these poor layers of management "know better". It is easy for these poor managers to hide what is really going on (if they are even competent enough to be aware of their mistakes) due to the size and complexity of the company. The scary details in the weeds are hidden by flashy (actually poorly done) PowerPoint slides with graphs and pictures.

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5.0
19 Jan 2026
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Pros

Great benefits, nice campus, on-site cafeteria with many options, on-site gym (fee is approx $15/mo). Nice/newly renovated buildings, with nice amenitites (break room, jump in/out offices for privacy). In general, work-life balance was good, especially being able to work remotely (additionally) as needed.

Cons

They tend to do re-orgs fairly often (every 1.5 years or so), so it can be hard to get promoted within your current role, you should plan on applying for other roles within the firm, at the level you are looking to be promoted to. Must work in office at least 3 days/week starting in 2026, used to be 2 days a week from 2021-2025. Which means parking will be crowded if you don't get there by 9am. Work stations are not reserved, so if you don't get there early enough and if you don't have a co-worker saving you a spot, you might not find a seat in your work area very easily.

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3.0
29 Jun 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Great benefits and work/life balance if you're on the right team.

Cons

Having a bad manager dictates everything about your job. You will see no upward mobility or compensation improvement if you are under a poor manager.

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