Pros: Competitive pay. Stable job in a recession. Excellent benefits. Great workplace: awesome building, amazing snacks, summer party and perks. Very helpful and knowledgeable peers. Software ownership: you own the product you develop. Fast-paced, client-facing software development.

Cons: Incompetent middle management. They suffer from tunnel vision and tend to bully. Lots of fault-finding, little credit given. Software/architecture is ancient. A lot of mediocre proprietary software which is essentially re-inventing the wheel. Unemployable elsewhere after a few years. Fairly long work hours. Flex-time/work from home not encouraged, though they exist on paper. Few, if any, opportunities for professional growth. After 5 years as a developer, you might be promoted to team lead. Not a technology company. It started by a trader for traders and is run by wannabe traders.

Pros: Talented and very friendly people.

Cons: It is difficult to understand the technical environment and business requirements.

Pros: If you do well and have a supportive team leader and manager, they are very quick to give you more responsibility. Once you are established as a solid team player, there are many opportunities for growth, educational reimbursements, and slow but steady raises.

Cons: Some teams are decidedly better than others, ranging from a bunch of very competent folks that would do well almost anywhere, to other teams which seem to be what's left after years of the cream of the crop skimming off to other places. You are not allowed to actively trade, and moonlight coding for open source projects is, if not discouraged, at least made quite tedious and difficult.