Pros: Speaking as someone who was in the Technology side: - SquarePoint hires a lot of post-graduate developers, it's a really nice entrance to Finance and Electronic trading. - (This hugely depends on the team you are in) You would get involved immediately by doing tickets, this gives you the opportunity to learn from practice. - A lot of offices and a company growing fast. The company is making a name for itself (Although now not for the good reasons). - The only company that I know of that would contribute 10% to your pension.

Cons: Squarepoint used to be a very nice company that had many good advantages while expanding, however it got very bad during the Covid period. I wouldn't recommend to anyone that isn't a Junior. If I had to sum-up the biggest negative points: - Working 50 hours a week during first lockdown. - Squarepoint decided that the second wave (September 2020 and onward) of Covid that the lockdown "didn't applied" to them and began constantly harassing their employees to come to the office 4 days a week. A lot of people felt uncomfortable to ask personal "exemption" to this new policy. Middle-management *strangely* didn't step into the office for another half-year. - The period of bonus and raise after Covid was terrible all-across the board. Some people even got close to nothing while this year was the second best of the company. - Middle-management seems to have issues with reporting to upper-management (I'm saying *seems* because some people are very good at it! And I hope you'll get to work with them). The solution from the upper-management was to enforce more engineers/middle-management meetings, which was just you and your manager reading the same 5 bullet-points quarterly. - Progression internally is very difficult if there is no specific opening. I personally wasn't looking for it. - Squarepoint salaries, bonuses, and benefits are not competitive anymore. They are desperately trying to hire people to make up for all the people that left after Covid (reasons I explained above). If you wish to try a finance company/enjoy the pay bump for your career, go for it, but don't expect to stick in Squarepoint.

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.

Pros: * The food -you get £12 in credits a day to spend on a delivery service. This usually covers lunch. * Nice kitchen * Quarterly paid for events * Conference budget * Generally nice people * Decent working hours * Well located office, above a gym/barbers & very close to a tube station. Supermarkets nearby. * Good health, travel and dental insurance. * Seems to be doing fairly well, almost kept pace with major indices last year.

Cons: * Repetitive work -you will not learn much here. * Low pay for the industry * Hidden company structure means progression is totally obfuscated. No KPIs, no performance reviews, no structured development. If you want to be promoted then you should have joined as the company was growing. * The person making decisions about compensation doesn't know what you're working on. * There is a lack of structure in projects. Direction of work seems to be dictated by what is in vogue at the time. * Flat structure causes politicking. * Median tenure is around 1.5 years, there's a reason for this. * Lack of any diversity, both in people and ideas. * Remote working seems to be available for certain people and not others. At least 4 days in the office is strictly enforced for certain people but not others.