Citicorp Senior Java Developer 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

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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.

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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and company restructuring can lead to concerns about job security.Technology and Infrastructure:Legacy systems and outdated technology can be frustrating for employees who are used to more modern, efficient tools.Regulatory Environment:The highly regulated nature of the financial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.

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Work Details

Work policy: 2 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

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Work Details

Work policy: 3 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

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Likes

Challenging work, large organization, good pay and benefits

Dislikes

No growth, poor work life balance and indecisive leadership, non existent HR to address any Employee concerns

Work Details

Work policy: 3 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

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Present situation at Citi due to restructuring is completely different from my experience. Based on personal experience: Global firmwide attempts by HR teams to retain talent by showcasing available Job options within Citi and promoting Internal Mobility. Encouragement by Many higher management individuals across the globe to explore the Career Options within Citi and for the benefits. Citi had offered a very good pay scale that I respect and would always cherish. Several Training Program offerings to upscale the employees was a consistent initiative within Citi which was definitely a very good sign....Read More

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Based on the experience that I wish no one should experience in his/her career. 》》When a business unit is spanned geographically, every zonal team should respect Time zones of each other. 🚩Unfortunately, my London-based "Indian Manager" had completely disregarded and disrespected it. -------------------------------------------------- 》》Hiring a person for certain skill-sets and later setting unrealistic expectations by pressurizing ( Full time production support in all Time Zones ) which leads to deviation in career path, is an absolutely wrong practice, which had been cultivated by my London-based "Indian Manager". -------------------------------------------------- 🚩Forcing an employee to resign by threat of enforcing PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM is an another ugly tactic I had faced with my London-based "Indian Manager". -------------------------------------------------- 🚩Complete ignorance to my positive initiatives and efforts and focusing on evaluating negatively, finger-pointing mistakes. -------------------------------------------------- 🚩Sabotaging an employee's work and reputation is an another ugly practice followed within my team, that I had witnessed and experienced. -------------------------------------------------- 🚩London-based "Indian Manager" had not bothered to stop it and had rather overlooked it with silent support. -------------------------------------------------- 》》When an employee wish to raise a concern genuinely, it needs to be addressed. 》》Employee EXIT Survey Feedback shouldn't be blocked to prevent employee from providing feedback. 🚩Unfortunately in my case, it had been blocked to prevent me from raising the serious concerns. 🚩Despite highlighting it to HR partner, the matter had been lingering throughout my notice period of three months till my last day. -------------------------------------------------- 》》ASK to submit Self-Appraisal Form, after my resignation. 🚩 When I questioned such purposeless ask, I was asked to submit the self appraisal WITHOUT ANY COMMENTS and as a COMPLETELY BLANK form. 🚩 There was no satisfactory justification for this. The only explanation that had been provided was "Mandatory To complete appraisal formality". 🚩 When you force an employee to "Self-Resign", then such asks of "Self Appraisal" raise questions on the motive behind it. 🚩 The only purpose which I could conclude from it was to spoil my Ratings and my Reputation forever. Only evil intentions could be predicted from non justifiable asks and acts. -------------------------------------------------- 》》 I had to exclusively send an email to HR Partner to understand the necessity of "Self Appraisal after resignation", to which she responded that it was not mandatory at all. -------------------------------------------------- Questionable Asks, Questionable Acts, Questionable Intentions, Questionable Practices To my unpleasant surprise, such an highly objectionable individual, my female manager at London, is still employed and retained by Citi. Unaware of the fact that she is just aiming at SEVERANCE ALLOWANCE at the cost of her fallen credibility....Read More

Work Details

Work policy: Alternate 3 Days and 2 Days Week from Office

Work timings: Flexible Timings

Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.

Likes

You will find other projects easily when you have billing issues

Dislikes

No additional benefits like promotions, salary hikes and especially bonuses are very less.

Work Details

Work policy: 2 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Strict Timings)

Work related travel: This job involves Travel Within City.

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There are genuinely good and talented people. There are good opportunities to learn and add skills.

Dislikes

However, most of the time the ones that get promoted are the ones who the bosses prefer, irrespective of the body of work most of the time managers do not value ur commitment to learning and your skillsets.

Work Details

Work days: Monday to Friday (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

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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.

Dislikes

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.