I've worked with Citi as a partner, as a client and as a service provider in various other banks and fintech companies, and I'm so not surprised. In fact none o

I've worked with Citi as a partner, as a client and as a service provider in various other banks and fintech companies, and I'm so not surprised. In fact none of my colleagues are. The problem is Citi itself. It's always an absurd amount of indian subcontractors who aren't paid to care but just to look good on a cost cutting plan (so they do their job), a disorganized / panicked organization who seem to never know what's happening when and follow mega-processes rather than solve problems. My bank has those, but we can take shortcut if we must - not Citi, can make you wait 2 months for a csv file via sftp, and then pretend to be ready when you finally discover it's a frigging indian contractor writing the csv rather than an automated process... we were like "guys seriously why are you even lying about it" when it all came crashing down with crazy errors never seen in the UAT. Turns out the automation guys were late and they made an effing human do the prod version meanwhile ... In another company, working with Citi on a completely different sector/group/vertical, I spent nights with their tech guys in India figuring out their own system and why they couldn't work... and they had less clue than me, it's absurd. They seem to work in very split team where americans will do the high level design and then outsource to dev + support + deployment teams, ofc isolated from each other, in India. So nobody US cares about any actual implementation detail of anything, the 3 indian teams don't know each other, and nobody feels responsible of anything. It's absurd I've had multiple separate experience of the same thing, with me and my colleagues doing the connection layer between various Citi stakeholder who had no idea about each other. There was even a time where a Citi country team in Hong Kong begged us to introduce them to the Citi country team in Singapore, and show them their product and processes...