Pros: The company values its employees a lot. There are many opportunities to learn and build your skills, whether in the finance sector or on the programming side. The management is very helpful and encourages employees to learn. To give an example, those who join the company from a non-computer science background are given 16 weeks of amazing training on Unix, C, and C++.

Cons: The compensation is below average, especially for an insanely expensive city like NYC.

Pros: Competitive pay for entry level, good work-life balance, lots of smart people.

Cons: Pay doesn’t scale well unless you’re a top performer or management. The work culture is very team dependent, as is the amount of legacy code.

Pros: If you get the right team, you'll be working with modern tools and encouraged to contribute to inner source. A supportive environment. A lot of access to continuing education, volunteering, and benefits. Clear boundaries and responsibilities, an energetic environment. Very technically capable employees (collaborative growth). Good pay. Internal mobility is now encouraged.

Cons: If you get a bad team or a bad legacy project, it can be a horrible experience. I've seen several talented engineers get frustrated at the lack of impetus to improve existing systems. Business often bleeds its responsibilities into engineering, leading to rushed projects or bad decisions because non-engineers are driving the conversation. A lot of internal forks of third-party projects or dated Bloomberg implementations of existing tech (related to the above, fortunately changing). Normal trappings of internal politics expected of large organizations.