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• Junior hires are given a good load of responsibilities.
• Salary and bonuses are good.
• Free snacks are provided (better than Microsoft, worse than Google).
• Customers are satisfied. Having worked at other companies, the high level of customer satisfaction is abnormal and deeply rewarding.
• New York City is much more fun than San Francisco, Boston, or Seattle, but that's just my opinion ;).

• No offices.
• Time not as flexible as other tech companies.
• Expected to be on call after hours. For IT/networking/systems people, this may be normal, but as a software engineer, I was not used to this.
• Culture of kissing up to higher levels (worse than other tech companies, but better than most non-tech corporate environments). Many superficial efforts are made to combat this, but it is still present.
• No company cafeteria leads most people to eat at their desks rather than with co-workers.
• No whiteboards (maybe that's a pro for some people).

For hiring software engineers, compare yourself to other tech companies, not to other finance companies. This is a great job for people coming from the finance world, but for people coming from the purely tech world, it's so-so. Flex time and regular morale boosters would be a good start to improving things.