I am a woman working in management consulting and previously worked in front office at CIBC. An MD and ED on our team pressured juniors to accompany them to strip clubs. I felt uncomfortable and shared my thoughts with peers but it fell on deaf ears. It was widely perceived that those who complied received…
I’ve read many of the stories shared on this platform and most focus on behaviour in the front office. What’s missing from that narrative is an honest acknowledgement that the same behaviour, harassment, intimidation, and discrimination towards women, was also deeply prevalent in ops. My time in the Citigroup London in operations years ago now…
Citi has a culture that supports misogyny, gender bias, and a wide array of unethical employment practices. For close to 20 years I have witnessed and, at times, been subjected to all of the above. For the most part, Citi reinforces an environment of apathy towards whistleblowers or those who “complain”. This is despite a…
I was nominated for MD at a tier one bank having the best production year of my career. I had been paid up in a down year and my review had given me the green light for additional headcount on my team. When I shared I was pregnant less than 4 weeks later, I came…
I am an experienced risk professional and senior managing director who received positive feedback from my managers, strong reviews, made progress on moving forward the risk agenda, and was respected by my colleagues and partners. I am well known in the risk industry. A global bank (not Citi) laid me off on my 65th birthday….
As an attorney who has spent years reviewing employment decisions across large financial institutions, I can say that all of the stories on this site feel familiar. But #31 is especially important to call out because it happens every day in corporate settings. Elevating a more junior man over a senior woman – then requiring…
I am an ethnic minority female millennial whom worked in the Citi London office for 4 years at analyst level in the 2010s. After being in my original team for 1.5 years, I was asked if I would like to move into another team in the same department which was to support a new fast…
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…
I’ve been watching the site traffic here since it made the press. I’m one of many women who, I believe, was wronged by Citi’s HR department for reasons that still don’t fully make sense to me. I don’t think I’ll ever understand it. There will always be people who dismiss a site like this as…
I posted the below-story as a comment on the efinancialcareers.com site because in my opinion the standards women are held to at Citi compared to my former firm were so beyond pale it belies comprehension. Frankly, the stories are so crazy that most people wouldn’t believe them if they heard them. When I was at…