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.

Pros: Squarepoint has clearly done very well over the past few years and is consistently growing and expanding as a result. That means a lot of career opportunities, and an environment that's anything but stale. I've noticed a lot of new faces showing up around the office recently, and there's a good positive culture emerging in the engineering teams - casual conversations at lunch, mid-week beers just outside the office on a sunny day, general camaraderie. Colleagues are very skilled. The cynical politics you might sometimes expect at a HF are not present, at least among the software engineering lot. Working here has been fantastic for my career.

Cons: Big growth means growing pains. There's some clear technical debt that needs paying down across some of the firm's systems, which becomes more obvious as scale increases. Not everyone's experience is the same. For better or for worse, different teams can have quite different management styles. Expectations are high. People who struggle can be left feeling exposed; despite the growth, there's clearly a culture of not accepting mediocrity.

Pros: - collaborative spirit - honest upper management - great technology stack - good mix of legacy services and newer / greenfield projects

Cons: Tech debt is causing for quite some frustrations -> Interesting to solve but esp. junior developers are getting frustrated