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Citadel SDE: high cash pay, but pressure, blame culture and a stagnant career

2021-11-29T00:00:00+00:00

High all-cash pay for software engineers, but a top-down finance culture with heavy pressure, weak work-life balance, blame culture and stagnant pay and old code.

CitadelSoftware EngineerPosted 4 years agoBy Anonymous

About the reviewer

Status: Left within 3 months
Time at the company: 1–2 years
Role: Software Engineer
Job type: Full-time
Track: Individual contributor
Level: 1
Location: New York
Degree: Bachelor's
Experience before joining: 3–5 years

What they reported

Confident in the business: No
Clear path to grow: No
Hours a week: 60–80 hours
Who makes the decisions: Others
How colleagues work: Working themselves to exhaustion
Office politics: Barely any
Left the org in the last 6 months: 10–20%
Food: Free, and fine

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Citadel SDE: high cash pay, but pressure, blame culture and a stagnant career

CitadelSoftware EngineerPosted 4 years agoBy Anonymous

About the reviewer

Status: Left within 3 months
Time at the company: 1–2 years
Role: Software Engineer
Job type: Full-time
Track: Individual contributor
Level: 1
Location: New York
Degree: Bachelor's
Experience before joining: 3–5 years

What they reported

Confident in the business: No
Clear path to grow: No
Hours a week: 60–80 hours
Who makes the decisions: Others
How colleagues work: Working themselves to exhaustion
Office politics: Barely any
Left the org in the last 6 months: 10–20%
Food: Free, and fine

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