Pros: A great place to learn, challenge yourself, develop, and take your career to the next level. Surrounded by the strongest talent in the industry, it’s a demanding, fast-paced environment with a commitment to excellence. This, in turn, raises your game, awareness, self-development, hunger, and drive. Given lots of autonomy in a meritocracy, where there is a "get things done" attitude. I’ve had various different roles/opportunities to be continuously grown and challenged. I developed a career path here in the last 9 years. I’ve been empowered to succeed by supportive mentors and leaders. I was given the tools, support, guidance, and every resource available to succeed. There is a strong sense of work ethic and drive. I was assigned to the most impactful projects that help drive the business. A lot is expected from you, and if you deliver, there is great opportunity. You get to see the impact of your contributions in bringing revenue to the organization, which I find extremely motivating and empowering. A highly collaborative environment with great learning and development resources: * Tech Talks * Town Halls * Speaker Series * Financial training * Programming language courses * Latest technology platform's training, etc.

Cons: None that come to mind.

Pros: Citadel is packed with extremely talented, extremely driven, and ambitious people. For all that intensity, people are generally personable and good human beings. A lot will be demanded of you, and nearly everything you do will have a clear and immediate impact on your teammates, if not the firm. Work is intensely collaborative. Even on your worst day, you will feel tremendously accomplished. If you like pressure, you will be constantly stretching and growing. The hype is that Citadel is the place to work with the best and be the best, and the reality lives up to it.

Cons: Being the best and being surrounded by the best can be exhausting. Discussions are impassioned, heated, and sometimes combative. It’s great that everyone is so engaged, but nothing is ever easy. Management is very top-down. I’ve never had a job where so much time and energy was expended reporting to and justifying plans and decisions to the various layers of management above, or managing their curiosities and apprehensions. Leadership changes are frequent, and each time a lot of effort goes into bringing the new management up to speed. It seems sometimes that each day brings a new “top” priority.

Pros: Good pay, benefits, flights, food, gym

Cons: You're just a pawn for management.