Pros: - Great work-life balance - Smart people

Cons: Currently, no cons I know of so far.

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: - Insurance premiums taken care of, including spouse - 20 vacation days - Transparent work culture (for the most part) - Mature support processes - One of the better options in the finance industry

Cons: - Politics - Inconsistency - Too much technical debt and legacy systems - Immature and untrained people managers - No separation of manager and technical track, creating chaos in growth path