Smart Opportunities, Short-term Focus
Smart Opportunities, Short-term Focus
Very good expertise in options market making and position taking. They always have more ideas to make money than they have dev resources to throw at them. As a good developer with a little bit of understanding of the business side, there are heaps of opportunities to do well.
The company has gotten very big in recent years and has been losing its initial start-up feel.
The performance evaluation for developers often tends to prioritize shorter-term deliveries. Big projects that span multiple review cycles and take a while to show their value tend to get underrewarded. This creates the wrong incentives among developers.
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