Working at CitiGroup in New York City, NY: 45 Employee Job Reviews by Real Employee working in New York City, NY Area

"I've worked at CitI since 2007. First I was a contractor, then I got hired.I enjoy working at CitI because I had the opportunity to work with teams from all over the world and learned a lot of technologies."

"I've had great experiences here. I think there is quite a bit of red-tape and inefficient processes, but the people are generally pretty superb."

"Large and complex organization. You're not making a swift change - but the change that is ultimately achieved can impact nations."

What do you like about working at CitiGroup?

"Like to have a dynamic working environment and face challenging issues."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be fully prepared and know the company before talk to the people."

What don't you like about working at CitiGroup?

"Instead of focus on work and merit based rewarding process, spend too much time to deal with office politics"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"merit based reward and give challenge problems to be resolved."

"My experience with Citigroup was great."

What do you like about working at CitiGroup?

"I like the people, colleagues and Mgrs were friendly and knowlegeable."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be honest, what what you are looking for and how much you expect to be compensated."

What don't you like about working at CitiGroup?

"opportunities for growth were few, in-house training for promotional opportunities were few."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Enhance internal transfer process for high performing employees to better fit in promotional positions, rather than putting major focus on new hires."

"Unfortunately CitI was extremely corporate, they do not breed creativity."

What do you like about working at CitiGroup?

"Managers were very nice and although their culture is a bit dry, they are very gentle with their employees."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Be prepared for an extremely suited and corporate environment. They are looking for an exact fit and fostering and teaching are not their main priority"

What don't you like about working at CitiGroup?

"The culture was quite dry and stiff. It left many employees afraid to speak up or challenge current rules."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Allow for more strategic and creative thinking. There we're lots of employees with great ideas but often overlooked due to their title not being important enough."

What do you like about working at CitiGroup?

"Everything. There is nothing not to like about working at CitiGroup."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"None. Just be your professional self and tell your interviewer what you have to contribute."

What don't you like about working at CitiGroup?

"Nothing. I have no complaints at this time. That is all I have to say."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"We all look out for the bank's best interest, so no suggestions at this time."

What do you like about working at CitiGroup?

"Should be a good match between personal and company goals"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"no tips, no tips, no tips, no tips (repeated to complete word count)"

What don't you like about working at CitiGroup?

"Sluggish environment, lack of team spirit and enthusiasm to achieve goals"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Friendly and that fosters diversity and culture of 'rewarding individual and team performance'"

What do you like about working at CitiGroup?

"It's a solid job that's hard to get fired from."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Convince the interviewer that you can do the job well."

What don't you like about working at CitiGroup?

"So many rules and regulations, it's hard to get work done. No clear path to advancing in the company."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Too far above my pay grade to even comment on."

What do you like about working at CitiGroup?

"People are generally very friendly. Boss is very laid back"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Great place to start a career; quality of employees varies greatly from department to department"

What don't you like about working at CitiGroup?

"Lack of clear vision; many disconnected divisions all doing their own thing (silo-ed culture); pay could be better"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Less bureaucratic and layers; cut many layers of fat from the firm to make it leaner"

"learning s good, delivering is not so good"

What do you like about working at CitiGroup?

"large stable financial institution provides resources to create a stronger future"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"a great place to learn, some people have life time here."

What don't you like about working at CitiGroup?

"large stable financial institution one gets easily lost, networking is more important"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Need less stories , more actions, hold people accountable and verify that all actions have values"

"Overall I had a very positive experience at Citigroup until the market crash."

What do you like about working at CitiGroup?

"The variety of project that I was given as an employee of Citigroup, I found to be very rewarding. I worked on the building of structured cable plant in a brand new 15 story office tower on the passive network side. On the Active Network side, I designed configured and implemented Cisco routers and switches in remote offices to the design and implementation of additional site to the Call Center ICM network."

What don't you like about working at CitiGroup?

"The personality of the company changed when Citicorp merged with Smith-Barney. They changed from a company that cared about its employees to treating employees as commodities."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"When you care about your employees, it inspires their loyalty to the company."

What do you like about working at CitiGroup?

"Some of the people are really nice and management can be somewhat flexible. That's about it."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Please do yourself a *big* favor, get out of that interview chair and run like hell."

What don't you like about working at CitiGroup?

"People are put in leadership positions who can't manage or inspire others; too many lazy people who ride off the hard work of others; treat their IT people like crap; and just a generally dreary, drab place to work. The word lame comes to mind."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Make employees feel like they truly count and not not just play lip service to the concept."

"I had a great experience working for Citigroup for 22 years."

What do you like about working at CitiGroup?

"The company had a great culture and very good benefits"

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"To be well prepare and to show a positive light in the interview."

What don't you like about working at CitiGroup?

"The financial crisis it went through and the effects of this crisis."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"To get more involve in the day to day activities and projects."