Peers are great, performance review process bad - Anonymous employee Citi Employee Review

2.0
Aug 29, 2010
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Some of the best reasons to work at Citigroup are the benefits, the peers you work with on a daily basis and the flexible work environment.

Cons

Citigroup uses the Forced Ranking process to conduct year end performance reviews. If you work with a high performing group of professionals, this can be very demoralizing and counterintuitive to getting good performance.

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Cons

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