Pros: Great pay and room for growth. Great benefits, including lunch. Smart people. Good training. Casual culture.

Cons: Culture heading in the wrong direction: more serious and doing more hours for the sake of doing more hours.

Pros: Great pay, excellent culture, friendly people.

Cons: Work culture is beginning to get more intense. The most recent round of interns were judged much more harshly than before.

Pros: There are some really nice and smart people. Work can be interesting. Having a barista on-site is quite nice.

Cons: Shame those nice people are not in a position to make change. Optiver used to be a nice place to work. Then management and HR decided that people could be more productive if they were told that everything they do can be better or done faster. A toxic culture of blame. People become withdrawn due to the excessive load and expectations. Some teams are worse than others. If someone decides a person should go, they will be bullied out of the company using a performance improvement program. If you are going through hiring, make sure to ask for a proper base salary, since your bonus depends on your rating, and that is at the mercy of management.