Not a great place to work - Anonymous employee Citi Employee Review

1.0
12 Jul 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Canadian colleagues were nice. Newer stack is being introduced, the pace is very slow however.

Cons

Canada location is treated as an offshore vendor, with no empowerment. The power center is in New Jersey location, with that location getting the meaty work. Weekend work is a norm , coupled with offshore vendors, working 24x7 is also a norm. Management doesn’t care about work life balance. Since the teams are highly distributed, everyone is constantly on the phone, with minimal local interaction, makes it almost feel like a telephone company.

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Cons

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