Pros: Great people and a fast-paced environment.

Cons: Intensive interview process, but very rewarding.

Pros: Learned a lot about the technology stack.

Cons: Pretty intense workplace, especially if you’re on a trading floor.

Pros: Technical problems are challenging and interesting. Colleagues are very smart people, and the atmosphere is culturally rich. Salary and benefits are above the norm.

Cons: Technical management is quite young, and with a notable exception, they all started their career at Optiver. As a consequence, they believe there is no other way to solve technical problems than "the single Optiver way" and cannot even consider that there are different problems which require different solutions. There's a bit of a herd approach in designing systems and applications, and straying from the path is frowned upon even when the advantages of doing so are clear or might be worth a shot. These issues are lately being exacerbated by narrowed diversity in technical recruitment, populating the engineering ranks with clones of the team leads.