Flow Traders

There are good folks here, but not in the charge. I was lucky with the team but not the company.

They send you a nice bottle when you join the company.

It's a company based on technologies, but it's not the technical people who are in charge.

It often happens that utter alpha-males who have very little understanding of computers will demand you to solve unsolved problems of computer science, which is both ridiculous and daily life in Flow.

Technologies there are generally around 25 years behind the industry.

Everything is quite disorganized; the entire company is alive thanks to local heroes, not because it has some resilient structure.

It looks like a big, big mess, and these local heroes are janitors cleaning places that become dirty the most.

IMO, the CTO isn't doing anything close to a good job.

Tremendous amount of bureaucracy.

The company is filled with people who spent their entire professional lives in the very same company and never seen anything better.

These are the very same people who are in charge and failing to admit that better exists, resisting any possible change to the environment they are used to.

There are literally folks who work there for the last 15 years, full of professional stagnation, isolation from reality, and continuously improving standards of the industry.

A significant part of your income is your yearly bonus.

Your bonus will mostly come out of your personal relationships.

If you don't comply with the daily ridiculousness, it is likely you are not going to be on a good count for those who will affect your bonus the most.

Bonuses are not as impressive as they advertise.

They only become overwhelming after 3 years, so it's worth money-wise only if you are staying there for more than 3 years.

Otherwise, the year-average in the first 3 years is not going to be anything outstanding.

This salary is doable anywhere outside of the financial sector, even.

Get rid of the CTO; he's not doing a good job. The entire tech organization is a great mess, and it hasn't been seen, in my time in the company, that the management took any steps for improvement. In fact, it was quite the opposite.