Flow Traders

There is still some room for getting things done when you have an idea.

The number of employees keeps growing, but the amount of net income doesn't really grow, leading to weak variable compensation compared to before.

Currently, it seems that salaries are not as competitive as they used to be in the Amsterdam area.

Another con is mainly a feeling that I have, not sure how real it is, but I feel that upper management considers development an expense rather than an investment.

Please start to think of your engineers as a resource and not as an expense. We constantly follow a business target without having time to actually have a technology-driven roadmap, or a vague resemblance of a plan. We do not make money without following the business, but if we never stop rethinking a bit what we have, we drive the costs up and the morale down.