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

Pros: Inter-teams communication is promoted making it easy to work on projects and clarify requirements.

Cons: Since the firm is global, that facilitated communication can be hindered by timezones.

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.