The entire org was run with 80% contractors from Indian It companies with a bad rep. Some were sitting on bench for an entire year but they weren’t let go. Instead hardworking FTEs were let go. Management is crazy and dragging the company to sh-t for reasons I can’t fathom
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The support desk of Citi contractors is the worst experience I’ve had at a bank. I went through 5-6 people pulling the same ticket and contacting me at all hours of the day or night multiple times. It became a running joke. A shameful joke. It’s like the left hand doesn’t know what the right is doing.
I have got 4 calls from indian Citi consultants today. After 10PM? They want to understand process I designed and implemented. But I am not working at Citi anymore. Sorry. I have bigger priority things to do. Ask Jane - this was her plan.
serious corruption that makes you question the economy
I just hope upper Management/Jane or whoever the fu-k cares looks at these threads. You’re paying 30 contractors work that could be done by 10 FTEs, even juniors. I am at the bottom of the barrel, a junior and have worked with some of these senior contractors that can’t figure out the most basic tech issues. They take help from me behind the scenes for all their basic tasks and pass off my work as their own to management. I brought this up to management and they give no sh--s. There is certainly some corruption going on cause I can’t imagine how this is otherwise profitable to the company or management
@stq+1s0Sresp it’s harder to get into an IIt than MIT but I guarantee NONE of the WITCH contractors are from IITs
They laid off everyone that knows our homegrown antiquated platforms the last 10 years. They honestly just need to outsource the platforms at this point too. Nothing gets fixed, as no one knows how to work on what we have, and when they bid hours for an update they always go over and have 5x the hours at the end.
Anand and his gang of incompetent criminal buddies need to go. They are so corrupt it’s scary. How he hasn’t bankrupt the place is a miracle,
After all, rumour has it that IIT grads are on par, if not better than the MIT ones 😄
Unfortunately this is happening at most large companies. Those contracting companies are a joke. Whoever believes 1. These people are paid little money - they’re not and 2. Still have to make up for what the contracting agencies have to make, plus a 5 people project they will make it a 30 people project because that’s their business model and what they make money out of. But Americans either seem so clueless about technology that they accept any terms or someone must be getting kickbacks somewhere along the way. And lastly this is a failure of the US government for the last 30+ years or so. If so called STEM shortage existed, they should have made getting a STEM degree free of cost for local us citizen residents and could have gotten many out of the rolls of poverty rather than rely on this scam while us citizens are struggling to make ends meet.
And I know someone will reply as a contractor, , “we work for so little money and so many hours.” Maybe the hours part is true to some extent but not the money part, these ppl are making way more than your average American with a degree.
The IT sourcing at Citi needs to be revisited and revamped . There is a huge nexus between the Citi management and Indian IT service providers at Citibank . A lot of contractors with fake experience are brought in by Indian IT . There will be some realignment after the layoffs but hopefully management reviews this .