What is the hiring process like at IMC Trading?

friendly, high pay, nice interview process

Difficult to convert, hard interview

once you know the ropes, it becomes easy work

none really, the interview process was a breeze

People, the team itself seems to be very glued in and exciting

I went through the full interview process for a role in Amsterdam. The process itself was thorough and the people I spoke with were knowledgeable. Compensation was competitive and they were transparent about the 30% ruling benefits. After receiving and signing a contract, I resigned from my previous role and began preparing for relocation to the Netherlands. IMC rescinded the offer. I don't know how going onsite for interviews and taking a holiday day off to ensure I could be present does not signal commitment to joining the company. No warning, no opportunity to address whatever concern they had, just a withdrawal of a signed contract before I was due to start. This left me unemployed with no notice. The inflexibility from themselves is a worrying trend. On that basis I would encourage potential candidates to continue with other opportunities to avoid the outcome I experienced.

- People are really nice and supportive. Opposite of a toxic culture - Great cross-team mobility, not much in the way of siloing - Quality engineering talent - your co-workers are very competent and you'll learn from that! - In my experience management is happy to expand your responsibilities if you ask - Hours not terrible - like 45-55 depending on team (some outliers are 60+ but that's rare) - The business itself is very stable and prints cash even in economic downturns (in fact it does better haha, kind of sad ig)

- Lot of legacy code in some teams, and the associated need to convince a "council of elders" to make big changes - Can get pigeonholed into working on highly specialized stuff if not careful (ex: do 4 years working on trading GUI using old java swing patterns) - Excruciating lack of documentation sometimes - The comp is of course great relative to most jobs, but some other firms like Cit will pay much higher - If hired as a new grad (esp a trader) - beware there have been large cuts of those classes in the past