Pros: - Good pay & benefits - Great people - Can be promoted or moved teams relatively easily

Cons: Mileage will vary hugely depending on the team. Politics and bureaucracy often make simple projects extremely complicated. A very high-performance environment and culture is not for everyone. Upper management has stated verbatim that they have no interest in diversity and inclusion.

Pros: Purely tech driven, managers do a great job shielding developers from investments.

Cons: There was a WFH 1-day policy even during Covid.

Pros: The pay is competitive.

Cons: - Zero focus on career development or progression - Gerontocracy - senior tech management keeps churning "experienced" and unimaginative middle managers and senior developers while giving no one an opportunity to advance from below - Technology is subordinate to business/research, given menial programming tasks and anything business does not want to do, and treated as serfs to researchers/projects while tech management does nothing - Do not expect any exposure to business or financial concepts - they do not want you to ask questions - Zero communication or cohesion or discussion of organizational objectives, deep siloes and Darwinian project/people management culture - Senior business management is a bunch of quants with zero people skills that can't communicate with other human beings on a basic level, they don't care about employees or even about making money - they are rich already and this is just a game to them