I was recruited to Citi in early 2023. At my first company mixer, during a conversation with three female Managing Directors, they openly discussed HR’s flagrant hostility toward women. Spent the next two years networking my way back to my former firm and escaped in 2025. Don’t understand how this isn’t a risk issue for its Board of Directors.
Story 291: I was based on the West Coast. Before annual sales meetings in New York, colleagues in Arizona would fly to California for contrived client meetings so they could qualify to fly business class to New York under Citi’s travel policy. Abuse of the policy was widespread and openly tolerated. That is why it…
As a 67yo woman who is relatively famous in our industry for being unconventional, this is a hard road to hoe. What’s different is that you don’t have to row it like I did: social media virality + first amendment protections make a lot of things possible that I’m not sure were options in my…
I worked at Wells Fargo for 27 years. I left much earlier than planned, because I could no longer tolerate being overworked, under-recognized, and treated as the woman who could carry everything while our only male team member was valued above everyone else, even though his contribution was laughable. I saved Wells Fargo more than…
This morning the Financial Times released a detailed story about Brad Karp, the longtime chairman of Paul Weiss, and his ties to Jeffrey Epstein — ties that had previously been downplayed by the law firm. The article states that Karp “appears to have been willing to push the boundaries of confidentiality rules to meet Epstein’s…
I’ve been in finance for 10 years. When I joined a grad scheme in the City- a male director described as ‘punchy’ was hired onto the team from another bank. For the next two years he would harass me on the trading floor – in front of colleagues, he’d ask why I was so happy…
Citi’s culture is so toxic that the word itself is inadequate. It’s insidious to the point that if you work there long enough you lose any sense of orientation. The Canary Wharf office, where I was located was a sewer. There was an executive in wealth who was such a dangerous psychological predator that one…