IMC Trading

• People are really nice and supportive. It is the opposite of a toxic culture.
• There is great cross-team mobility, with not much in the way of siloing.
• There is quality engineering talent. Your co-workers are very competent, and you'll learn from that!
• In my experience, management is happy to expand your responsibilities if you ask.
• Hours are not terrible, like 45 to 55 depending on the team, though some outliers are 60 plus, but that's rare.
• The business itself is very stable and prints cash even in economic downturns. In fact, it does better, which is kind of sad.

• There is a lot of legacy code in some teams, and the associated need to convince a "council of elders" to make big changes.
• You can get pigeonholed into working on highly specialized stuff if you are not careful, such as doing four years working on a trading GUI using old Java Swing patterns.
• There is an excruciating lack of documentation sometimes.
• The compensation is, of course, great relative to most jobs, but some other firms will pay much higher.
• If you are hired as a new grad, especially a trader, beware that there have been large cuts of those classes in the past.

Dissolve the executive structure and turn the company into a co-op? Owners have clearly not grasped Maoism.