Too big, lousy career advancement, great opportunity to progress if you are an excellent networker - Anonymous employee Citi Employee Review

3.0
Mar 8, 2010
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- If you network all the time and are excellent at making contacts, you can build a great network and can easily move between jobs - Despite recent economic downturn, Citi is still respected and everyone knows the name - opportunity to work abroad in all sorts of locations

Cons

- difficult to navigate, silos, lack of understanding of business lines other than your own - plenty of employees who are not bright nor professional - hard to come by the truly great managers, other managers have really only got to their current position because of their tenure / have been with the bank since 1975. - outsourcing of functions means job security is always a question

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