Story 79

I have multiple stories (strip clubs, drugs being brought to team dinners etc), but the one that sticks out was when aged 22, 2 weeks after being offered a job on a trading floor desk I was asked by my hiring manager on a night out to a club to ‘entertain clients.’ I woke up…

To Story 251 and all the others: I am so incredibly sorry that you’re going through this. There are few things more stressful than feeling like a “tracked animal” for months, knowing the axe is coming but being forced to wait for it. What you are describing is part of Citi’s M.O. leading up to…

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…

Wow. In my years in this industry, I have never encountered another organization generating this volume and variety of controversy. Ouch. Reading a number of threads on this site has been jaw-dropping about Citi. The pattern is now too consistent to ignore. The current COO presided over the Wealth business before the current Global Wealth…

What does not surprise me is that it’s Citi. What does surprise me is that it’s Citi US. I started my career at Citi in India, in a back-office team supporting global investment banking operations. Interestingly, I wasn’t even aware it was a back-office role because that was never mentioned in the job description. The…

Citi employee here. Bonus numbers just dropped, so now we get to see who’s getting shoved out. Just heard a senior guy — hundreds of people under him — was quietly shown the door. This is the same guy who disappeared last year after an alleged affair with someone who reported to him. And of…