Point72 Reviews

HR team is very busy writing rave reviews about Cubist and Point72, one search on the web tells the truth about the culture of this firm, this is toxic firm with a big blot on its name, as a current employee below are some of my observations: 1. The senior management promises a lot, but nothing is delivered, in the end only yes men get promoted to director, managing director title for doing nothing smart. 2. The verbal language used by the top management is at best arrogant, condescending and frankly against every HR policy in the handbook. 3 The pay is sub-par, also the work you are given is outdated with nontransferable skills for your next gig, so, all in all, you will simply waste your time here with no monetary benefit or knowledge being gained. Changing name of the firm every few years is not going to help and neither is bringing in consulting firms to do surveys, we all know this is simply an effort to restore the image and nothing more. There are several hedge funds out there with better culture technology stack and smarter people out there, better working for them then a blotted name that is always in the news for the wrong reasons.

This is probably one of the worst firm to work for, full of arrogant management, it is clear why this firms name comes up for all the wrong reasons. Most of the people working here are either unable to find employement else where as a result of the image and brand value out on the street. The reason SAC Capital was renamed to Point72 after the scandal was to restore a big ego and image of a fraudster, most of the star traders and portfolio managers have already left the firm. The quant business under the name of Cubist is a joke, the employees of this firm do everything very secretly to the extent of stupidity and irrelevent repetitive man hours being spent on irrelevant projects. My advise would be to avoid this firm altogether as it can really me a career diminishing move given this firms image our on the street.