In Tampa, It is wild how managers suddenly disappear right before review time. They ghost you for weeks, then magically reappear with some cooked-up rating. This place doesn’t have a performance problem — it has a leadership problem. Especially with Indian managers who support people who speak their own native language. If an outsider comes to your team they are done unless the manager has a foreign degree, there is no respect. Some people sit in the same office space for years simply because they’re scared, comfortable, and stuck — no ambition, no growth, no risk-taking, just repeating the same tasks every day until they become part of the furniture.
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Lots of people dislike my comment - are these immigrants / French-speaking? :D I am sorry to break it to you, but that is the reality. Would you be happy if suddenly billions of people come to your home countries and start undercutting your labour? People in the West are worried about the future of their children - we are not responsible for everyone in the whole wide world - not to mention that countries like China and India already benefitted enormously from western countries outsourcing their production there. And now they want to take the jobs on our own soil? A bit ridiculous, and it has nothing to do with racism. Pure economics.
The problem is ... global. It is the same everywhere in the US/EU/UK. Globalization of the workforce does not work for the average person, it was never meant to - it was pushed by the rich business owners to lower their costs. And they convinced politicians that this is good for the demographics as well. Maybe at Citi it is a bit worse - I have seen so many teams where the manager is Chinese and virtually all 10-15 reports are Chinese. Same for Indian and Russian as a matter of fact. I know for a fact that sale and trading is virtually inundated by French-speaking traders and quants in LDN - a friend of mine was saying that it is nearly impossible to penetrate the French-speaking world there with few exceptions where teams are still relatively global in nature. Nothing much one can do about unfortunately ...