Citicorp Applications Development Programmer Analyst Reviews

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As far as appraisals are concerned, yet to complete 1 year next month, and in December we have appraisals , so let's see. I haved rated this parameter based on reviews received from my colleagues

Dislikes

Slow growth I feel, in terms of technical knowledge

Work Details

Work policy: 2 days/week from office

Work timings: Flexible Timings

Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.

Likes

Best culture best people and very supportive

Dislikes

Related to hr work and work space management is not proper, hr not easily available at Pune office for any basic stuff and budget issue for celebration or partying, these all can be improved

Work Details

Work policy: 2 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

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Nothing as such

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Work-Life Balance:High workloads and long hours can lead to difficulties in maintaining a healthy work-life balance.Bureaucracy:Large organizations often have extensive bureaucratic processes that can slow down decision-making and innovation.Pressure and Stress:The high-pressure environment of the financial sector can be stressful, with tight deadlines and significant responsibilities.Limited Career Growth:Some employees may feel that career advancement opportunities are limited or that the path to promotion is unclear.Corporate Culture:The corporate culture might be seen as rigid or impersonal, making it difficult for employees to feel connected or valued.Job Security:Economic fluctuations and company restructuring can lead to concerns about job security.Technology and Infrastructure:Legacy systems and outdated technology can be frustrating for employees who are used to more modern, efficient tools.Regulatory Environment:The highly regulated nature of the financial industry can be challenging, with extensive compliance requirements.Communication:In large organizations, communication between departments or management levels can be inefficient or unclear.Compensation and Benefits:Some employees may feel that the compensation and benefits packages are not competitive or do not adequately reflect their contributions....Read More

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Pay is average, other than that from culture to work to tech everything has gone way bad.

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from last 2 year there is lots of politics overall citi uses very old tech. If you wanna bring anything new there are lots of obstacles and politics. Promotion halted, layoff happening. We have senior developers who can't open vim or work with basic python. So overall everything from work to culture to tech to the job satisfaction is going downhill very fast. As soon as market opens, attrition rate would be really high and the good employers would be first to leave....Read More

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Salary and Appraisals

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No good projects, no job security. If you're joining TTS department then please don't join Citi, they're still working on old technologies, bad politics and favoratism are the things here.

Work Details

Work policy: 3 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Dislikes

Likes

Work life balance

Dislikes

No promotion, no tech stack, no good increment

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Leaves

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Not a good work life balance

Work Details

Work policy: 2 days/week from office

Work timings: Flexible Timings

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

Compensation is much better than the market standard Prior to reorganization(mid-2024), the work environment was fine, offering good work-life balance Employees were treated accordingly to their roles and experience

Dislikes

After reorganization, only onsite position/team members are considered for lead, manager, principal engineer, with onsite role preserved due to senior management being based there most of the work is done by offshore, but it is projected only onsite employees contributed because to safeguard their role and senior management wants tobe in saved position Offshore employees are treated like subordinates to onsite employees, even at the VP level Employees with 18+ years exp are treated and compared with juniors who is having less than 4 years exp Employees are under immense pressure, indirectly being forced to resign Suggestion to Management conduct a voting/poll among existing employees to determine who is willing to opt for voluntary retirement or leave with severance pay instead of using phycological pressure to force self-resignation...Read More

Work Details

Work policy: 2 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

Job Security and Work life balance...

Dislikes

Suddenly Sold to Axis bank ltd.......better they should have asked employees to get jib outside and sell portfoilios alone to Axis.......Present status of Citi Employees at Axis bank is very pathetic.....

Work Details

Work policy: As per employees wish we can work from home or work from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.

Likes

Citi has multiple initiatives to help employee skill themselves, also it provides good compensation to right candidate who is at right place at right time.

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It's advantage of having options for employees to skill themselves remains a distant fruit to most of starting or mid level workforce as most of those spend maximum of their time and overtime working/supporting daily application. Have got the same feedback from most of people. So after spending some 3-5 years with organization thereis high probability that you would feel lagging behind your other friends working in similar organization and would feel difficult to switch....Read More

Work Details

Work policy: 3 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

Citicorp management team is co-operative and helping their employees in growth and development. Also providing the opportunities to better work life balance.

Dislikes

Shift rotation is little hard at CitiCorp.

Work Details

Work policy: 3 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

Nothing. The company especially the Bengaluru Location is like a Milk production Diary and the employees are the livestock. Once they are milked enough then they are sent out for Slaughter.

Dislikes

Everything. They hire you at a very high package, in fact way more than current market trends so that you don't get employed elsewhere after you join Citi. Then the work culture, management, pathetic bosses, layoffs and always uncertainty makes it so difficult to survive. Eventually you succumb or go with the flow to lose your mental balance.

Likes

Flexible timings and good perks while joining. Global exposure and can understand the complex system.

Dislikes

Lot of governance and process. They still living in stone age during cutting edge technology. There is no clear vision by senior management and not even bother to change. Think twice before to join

Work Details

Work policy: 2 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Likes

- Cab Service - Annual Subscription to Udemy and other courses

Dislikes

- Work-Life balance is hectic. Have to work even on weekends - Worst management. There is no quality work and there is no core engineering happening here. - Lot of office politics especially in the Bangalore office. If you are a bootlicker, you will get good promotions. - Especially, managers in the USPB team in Bangalore are the worst. They don't have basic empathy and treat their employees like hell. Don't join the Bangalore office. It's worst....Read More

Work Details

Work policy: 3 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.

Likes

Positives are the Ramanujan IT sez itself with lots of greenery with world class garden and buildings - There used to be lot of Table tennis players which I have learnt and become good at TT after office hours (2015-16 period) but it sort of reduced after COB initiative as many members where shifted to other cities - Exposure to international clients and banking systems

Dislikes

- Almost all of the top management(C11, C12, C13 etc)are upper caste Brahmins - During my time 95 percent of TL- C09s and Manager- C10s were Brahmins across NAM, Singapore, India and Australia ops but recently I heard that they are giving promotions to other communities as well. But only the salary and levels are given not the entire team management role. It is very demotivating to know even after years of hard work you are not given promotions and good appraisals. I guess world is not fair I found out the hard way. - No regard for your health, due to my demanding investment role, handling huge sums i used to have lunch someday at 2.30, someday @ 1.30, sometimes at 3.30 or 4.30 in the evening, this is due to different cutoff time. And working 11 to 15 hours depending upon the volume and there is commute for another 2 hours per day. I literally felt like living in office!! After all the hard work living as bachelor getting proper food @ 11 and 12 in night was hard. I usually show all the frustration by having large amount of food at late night. Due to this unhealthy life style and work culture I had developed a health condition called GERD/reflux where your splinter muscles loosens and tend to vomit a lot. Got 3 endoscopy done first was in 2019 last was this year 2024. I couldn't go to a job due to this condition. - Every job is demanding so do your job but it is not your life. Take good care of yourself by having small breaks and have some fruits in between. Stay away from smoking and drinking. You got your family to take care even after your 40 but there is always someone to replace you at your company...Read More

Work Details

Work days: Alternate Saturday off (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.