Pros: There are good perks with food and culture.

Cons: There were no such cons, and the work was critical.

Pros: - The company's positive culture - The exposure to opportunities - Being surrounded by an intelligent workforce - The level of importance placed on communication and knowledge shares firmwide - Growing company with roles globally - Opportunities for travel

Cons: - Steep learning curve can feel overwhelming in your first 6 months - You need to possess a willingness to continually work independently on increasing your own skills, areas of domain knowledge and leadership skills

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