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How people got jobs at Citi
What 38 people did before they joined Citi: where they worked, what they studied, which role they came in through, and how long it took.
38
people in our data got there
50%
had a graduate degree first (of those listing one)
7
typical years since first job
- The most common step right before: from other companies (45%).
- The most common way in was Finance & trading (13% joined in that kind of role).
- Of those who list their education, 50% had a graduate degree before arriving and 12% a PhD.
- The typical person arrived about 7 years after their first job.
How Citi compares
- People arrived about 3 years earlier in their careers than at the typical one of the other banks & Fortune 500 companies (7 vs 10 years since their first job).
Among people who list their education; places with at least 10 such people.
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| People listing education | Share | |
|---|---|---|
| Qualcomm | 36 | 69% |
| Morgan Stanley | 16 | 62% |
| Intel Corporation | 49 | 61% |
| Hewlett Packard Enterprise | 36 | 61% |
| Micron Technology | 25 | 60% |
| JPMorgan Chase & Co. | 20 | 55% |
| AMD | 26 | 54% |
| Dell Technologies | 30 | 53% |
| IBM | 60 | 53% |
| Goldman Sachs | 20 | 50% |
| Citi (this page) | 16 | 50% |
| Cisco | 43 | 49% |
| NextEra Energy, Inc. | 41 | 49% |
| Deutsche Bank | 16 | 38% |
| Schneider Electric | 28 | 32% |
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| Median years | ||
|---|---|---|
| AMD | 20 yrs | |
| NextEra Energy, Inc. | 19 yrs | |
| Micron Technology | 16 yrs | |
| Hewlett Packard Enterprise | 15 yrs | |
| Cisco | 13 yrs | |
| Qualcomm | 11 yrs | |
| Schneider Electric | 11 yrs | |
| Dell Technologies | 9 yrs | |
| Intel Corporation | 8 yrs | |
| Citi (this page) | 7 yrs | |
| JPMorgan Chase & Co. | 6 yrs | |
| Morgan Stanley | 5 yrs | |
| IBM | 5 yrs | |
| Deutsche Bank | 5 yrs | |
| Goldman Sachs | 4 yrs |
Which role they joined in
Kinds of role with fewer than 5 people are combined into "All other roles".
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| People | Share | |
|---|---|---|
| All other roles | 33 | 87% |
| Finance & trading | 5 | 13% |
What they did right before
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| People | Share | |
|---|---|---|
| From other companies | 17 | 45% |
| From banks & Fortune 500 | 10 | 26% |
| This was their first listed step | 6 | 16% |
| Other | 5 | 13% |
Education
Among the 16 of 38 people who list their education.
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| People | Share | |
|---|---|---|
| Bachelor's | 8 | 50% |
| Master's | 2 | 12% |
| MBA | 4 | 25% |
| PhD | 2 | 12% |
How much experience they had
Among the 30 of 38 people with an earlier job listed.
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| People | Share | |
|---|---|---|
| Under 1 year | 2 | 7% |
| 1-3 years | 4 | 13% |
| 3-5 years | 7 | 23% |
| 5-8 years | 4 | 13% |
| 8-12 years | 8 | 27% |
| 12+ years | 5 | 17% |
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Related
How these numbers are made. From 3k+ public career histories collected for careerladder.fyi (dated jobs, degrees and publications). The collection was built around particular employers, so people who reached well-known tech, AI and finance employers are over-represented: read shares as "among people in this dataset", not as hiring odds. Names are shown only when at least 5 people are behind them; smaller groups are combined into "Other". No individual profile is shown. Updated November 2026.