Rewarding place to work
Rewarding place to work
- Intelligent and humble coworkers
- Great pay
- Engineers are promoted and paid based on merit. There is transparency regarding levels (junior, senior status, etc.), and your guess is likely correct about where others are.
- With everything in technology and trading constantly changing, there is much room for growth and taking on new responsibilities, even immediately after starting.
- Everything is solid, including culture in general, 401k, massages, breakfast, lunch, snacks, five weeks of vacation shortly after starting (which everyone actually takes), and yearly company trips.
- Useless meetings are cut short or cut out; there is little opportunity for being bored.
- Team leads aren’t simply middle managers; they’ve excelled at the role they are leading.
- Expectations are extremely consistent: focus on clean, simple solutions, own the stack, and grasp the feedback loop of development.
- Making significant changes that affect trading can be stressful, though this is largely mitigated by frequent releases and having a plan if your solution is broken.
- An important and positive part of our culture is the blame-free environment where we collectively learn from our mistakes. Continue to encourage this.
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Took a coding assessment. The problems were medium difficulty. Then, I moved on to an HR phone call. We discussed the company, goals, and so on. They also reviewed the coding assessment. After that, I moved on to the final round, which featured pre
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Chicago, Illinois, United StatesNovember 21, 2023Took a coding assessment. The problems were medium difficulty. Then, I moved on to an HR phone call. We discussed the company, goals, and so on. They also reviewed the coding assessment. After that, I moved on to the final round, which featured pre
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