Slow moving legacy code workshop - Software Engineer Citi Employee Review

3.0
20 May 2024
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Pros

Standards are really low, so you can finish your work much earlier than most other Citi employees with minimal effort and slack off. Great place to be if you just want to clock out at 5 (or earlier lol) and take care of your kids. There is a senior developer on my team who didn't commit any code for an entire 2 months, and needs heavy assistance to complete even the most minor tasks.

Cons

Not a good place to be if you actually want to grow in your career. Some pockets of the company are still working with 20 year old code (J2EE, JSP, IBM WebSphere, terribly written monoliths with 1000+ line functions). Management has a very shortsighted and ad-hoc mindset, never thinking past the current sprint goals. Overall poor engineering culture and low skill workforce.

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5.0
25 May 2026
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Pros

Great benefits. Everyone is friendly and helpful. They do more than just pay lip service to work life balance

Cons

Like any job, the manager is the one that can make or break the position

3.0
8 Jun 2026
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Pros

Great collaboration between work groups. There used to be room for advancement and diversity in the workplace.

Cons

Lack of job security for several years culminating in a layoff after nearly 3 decades with the firm. Like many places, benefits, raises, and advancement opportunities diminished over time as the firm decided to offshore roles.

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