Great on diversity, provides opportunity to learn business and new technologies.Company invest in people and tries address employee issues. Is big on mobility and encourages employees to move across teams instead of leaving the firm.The downside is in work life balance. Teams are located across timezones so days are very long. Meetings sometimes starts at 7:30 or even 7 in the morning and have to go on call sat night as well with locations in Asia, even while company is talking about work/life balanceCiti's location strategy means major chunk of team members are in cheaper cost centres like in China, limited resources in NAM appears to be pre-occupied for most time on L3 support while teams in other timezones are able to work without distraction on new functionalities.Team events are organized for keeping up team morale, but these events are mostly after hours so goes into personal and family time.

Pros

Diversity, new technology, career mobility

Cons

Work life balance, working in NAM can be very stressfully becuase of L3 support requirments.

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Work her if you didn't find a job

Programmer Analyst (Former Employee) - Mississauga, ON - 12 May 2022

Micromanagement set to failsPoor management Unorganized Outdated tools Zero documentation Unfriendly applications and stuff Didn't say good morning They use Zoom and Skype together for meetings because they didn't discover Microsoft Team yetUnclear expectations and different from the interview expectations You open an incident and send emails for 3 months with no response You are just a number and don't care about you One authentic company I work here for one month and resigned

Pros

No pros

Cons

Micromanagement and poor

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Fun Place

Help Desk Support (Former Employee) - Etobicoke, ON - 15 November 2021

During my time at CITI, I can honestly say it was was of the best place I've work for, management was really amazing and fun and kept it interesting.

Pros

Fun, Fun Fun

Cons

no cons really, everyone is supportive of your success when I work their

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Good company

Application/Web Infrastructure Engineer - Contract (Current Employee) - Mississauga, ON - 24 June 2020

Good company, people are great and knowledgeable. easy to work with. Work - life balance is a little bit off, lots of weekend work. Overall i will recommend to my friends

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Felixable hours and milestone

Big Data Analytics Consultant (Former Employee) - Mississauga, ON - 23 June 2020

so much of flexibilty on closing the projects. overhiring is the trend of the group and budgets are so fat allow overhiring. Filters come down the road mostly contractors are filtered out in such a short time.

Pros

Easy working hours and easy projects

Cons

Most of employee are of same culture and same background top to bottom

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Business Systems Analyst (Former Employee) - Toronto, ON - 26 January 2020

Work-Life balance Excellent team environment Collaboration work Stressfree work environment Professional way wof work Peaceful work experience Job Security

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Good place for only short stay as a step to higher career forward

Sr. Programmer Analyst (Former Employee) - Mississauga, ON - 14 January 2020

This site is full of one specific ethnic unfortunately, which is definitely not fair to other ethnic and could potentially violate the equity of employment although they will not admit the fact. There is only one culture: high pressure, work, work, and work. As a global company, people end up working around the clock and not being compensated accordingly. Weird thing is they give employee a strange and high title, like AVP for all senior developer which sounds like Assistant Vice President, and VP is just the manager level in any other industry. Another factor making Citi a truly nightmare is its location, which is very far west end beyond Airport, this makes the commute a very high expense (travel time on forever jamming 401 and ridiculous high ETR 407 cost) to lots of people living in Toronto east/north end which are the traditional residence area.

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Good place to work

Big Data/Hadoop Developer (Current Employee) - Mississauga, ON - 3 November 2019

Good working culture, Better opportunities, Good Work life balance. Better part of the job is opportunity for internal movement across projects. Challenging is legacy of some employees

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Good workplace , work life balance , skill-building opportunity

Technical lead Citigroup (Current Employee) - Toronto, ON - 2 October 2019

This is good workplace where various opportunity to take ownership and build next level of solution. Several opportunities to learn new technologies and build your career

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Just fine

Senior Java / Talend Developer (Former Employee) - Mississauga, ON - 30 September 2019

Just fine as it was same culture like working from off shore locations, not much of feel that you work in Canada and the location is also very isolated, but yes from technology stand point they are using very good framework and nice learning experience

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Senior Software Developer and Analyst (Former Employee) - Mississauga, ON - 15 September 2019

It is a very good place to work here, and have a lot of good team members, good managers, good senior management, good IT department, good investment team members etc.

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Unreasonable expectations and work culture

Senior Programmer/Analyst (Former Employee) - Mississauga, ON - 10 September 2019

* Expected long hours of work without any compensation or day in lieu. * Micromanaged to the minute using desktop analysis tools * Had no bonus or adjustment to salary not even to account for inflation for 2 years as full-time employee until moved to another business * Lots of mandatory training for compliance but no investment in providing employees with job related technical training/upgrade opportunities other than Udemy for which you have no time left after your working day

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Good reputation

FINANCIAL REPORTING ANALYST (Former Employee) - National Capital Region - 11 June 2019

Citi is great start for your career however it will consume your time entirely working. I always complain the 12 hours working schedule or more during the month end cycle. No OT pays , No holiday pay

Pros

Its reputation

Cons

No worklife balance, inhouse ERP system

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Productive and fun work place

Assistant Vice President (Current Employee) - Mississauga, ON - 6 June 2019

Citi always emphasises on latest technologies and it's implementation. Gives you a free hand at problem solving. Work place has a low profile in Mississauga.

Pros

Nice work aura

Cons

Long Hours specially during release

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Good experience

Assistant Manager (Former Employee) - Milton, ON - 22 May 2019

Citifinancial is now closed. They suffered a big loss and in 2008 and several branches were closed. Amazing colleagues. Great managers. I've learned a lot with them

Pros

Good salary

Cons

Collection calls. High interest rates

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Good Job

Cleaner (Former Employee) - Selkirk, MB - 22 May 2019

We came in early before anyone was in. It was a quick and easy way to make money when I first started working. It helped me to learn skills I'd need for later jobs.

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Large Enterprise

Information Security Senior Technical Specialist (Current Employee) - Victoria, BC - 15 May 2019

Good mobility. Training courses available. Employee Survey done each year allows for good feedback. Great if you want to relocate as they operate in dozens of countries.

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Large Enterprise

Information Security Senior Technical Specialist (Current Employee) - Victoria, BC - 15 May 2019

Good mobility. Training courses available. Employee Survey done each year allows for good feedback. Great if you want to relocate as they operate in dozens of countries.

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Citi

QA TEST LEAD (Former Employee) - Mississauga, ON - 30 March 2019

Although the support from supervisors was great, I used to work extra hours regularly and this affected my work- life balance. The work atmosphere is dynamic

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Detailed Process oriented

Lead Consultant (Former Employee) - Mississauga, ON - 27 March 2019

Hard work, good pay- worked at the offshore development center for business located in USA. Workforce very competitive, work longer hours, mainly on Work Visa in Canada.

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Too much of work pressure

Senior Business Analyst and Project Manager (Current Employee) - Mississauga, ON - 27 March 2019

Not good for vendor companies. They are overburdened with work. Despite putting in efforts, vendors are humiliated. No work life balance. Location of the building is the best part and has easy connectivity to highway. HR is very supportive and address the concerns of employees. Quite a good place for employees to work here.

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