Very friendly colleagues, very intelligent staff, good teamwork with your peers and across departments, nice working hours (from 9am to 19pm), beautiful neighbourhood and building.
Cons
Sub-par management (teams compete internally, business plans not according to reality), sub-optimal infrastructure (nice tick-by-tick data but market simulator and data retriever have tons of glitches)
-Good work atmosphere, generally smart and pleasant colleagues.
-Total compensation is ok
-Not much micromanagement
-Most projects are important, small company enables you to talk to other departments directly
Cons
-Dysfunctional ego-centric management is completely out of touch with reality. Way too much politics for a company this size. The flat structure is actually highly hierarchical among peers.
-Fixed salary way below market so they can keep waving the bonus stick or force you to leave.
-The bonus scheme is opaque and very far from "meritocratic" as advertised.
- High salary
- Good location
- Intelligent people
- Overall good performance
Cons
- Politics and toxic managers
- Secrecy, lack of transparency
- Unhealthy work-life balance
- Human aspect greatly neglected
- Some people are considered untouchable