CIT Reviews

Management from the mid level sucks,all sneaky people, unethical with no sense of humanity, HR is a joke at this company, management looks at you and lies, changing the reality and gaslighting seems to be the common practice here, you are not evaluated by your expertise or technical knowledge rather by how good a boolicker you can be. If you dare to raise your voice like I did,you either be forced to quit or terminated, forget HR, never think for a second they might even listen to you let alone to help you, HR itself should take ethics 101, its more like someone else is puling the strings for them, the favored ones get away with even causing a global outage during business hours but if not among the chosens then you should expect negative comments and critisim for the stupidest things you could imagine.

The corporate culture of CIT may be among the worst I have ever experienced. It is extremely political with most of the middle tier of management (VPs and Directors) sucking up to the higher ups and either taking credit for their team's work or backstabbing up and comers at any opportunity. There is no concept of Win-Win and collaboration is lacking. If you're brave enough to voice an alternate opinion you'll be vindictively marginalized, sidelined, perhaps reassigned, or 'reduction in force' out of the company - unless you leave first. The philosophy tends to lead to an 'obey and do what I say' culture as opposed to identifying new ways to accomplish your work and be productive. Perhaps even worse is the lack of real management and leadership experience to achieve the tech goals leadership wants. Instead of listening to those who know, the 'traditional banking' approach dominates. This leads to constantly shifting prioritizes, daily fire drills, weekly shuffling of staff and resources - it is amazing that anything gets done and why initiatives take so long if they ever do get completed. These leads to a poor work-life balance. It is not uncommon for late nights, weekends - all the result of poor planning and subpar leadership. Sadly CIT has become the old school bank that is represented in the memes we all see: Overly political, greedy management, stiff and lacking in the ability to be innovative (they want to be creative but the management and leadership have drained the life out of the best contributors).