Pros: The company offers great benefits, lunch, and healthcare.

Cons: Final say is often coming from outside of London

Pros: Friendly colleagues, decent office, free lunch

Cons: - During my probation period, the 2-level-up manager kept influencing product definition, system design, timeline estimation, and code implementation. An astonishing phrase from him: "I can do it within 2 hours". - We had 4 backend engineers and 3 front-end engineers working on the same project. We were delayed for one month (the manager defined the deadline). Even though the 2-level-up manager said it was no one's fault, I got punished in the end without any conversation.

Pros: - Good profit growth - Interesting projects if you are on the right team. - Ability to invest into the fund if you are a quant - Large bonuses if you are a quant

Cons: The below concerns the tech side only! - A lot of people seem to do nothing; inefficient communication between teams; teams split in a siloed way and isolated from quants. - Really bad bonuses regardless of the performance. Even big banks pay more. - Tech workers have the same restrictions as quants on personal trading, and resignation notice but no way to invest into the fund and no garden leave. - In many cases there is micromanagement which gets in the way.