Don't Join If you want to grow (Technically and Professionally) at all - Assistant Vice President Citi Employee Review

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.