Slow moving legacy code workshop - Software Engineer Citi Employee Review

3.0
May 20, 2024
Recommend
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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
May 13, 2026
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Pros

Pretty decent benefits , but your exp is based on your team, and the lunch is pretty good

Cons

workload is pretty intense and with ai expect development to be rapid.

2.0
Jun 12, 2026
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great benefits (PTO, healthcare, etc.) for FTEs

Cons

Everything else - Carousel of management changes - Vague and ever-changing role/job descriptions and associated metrics - The constant feeling that we're all about to be laid off but must "prove" our value in the meantime

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