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: It is a good company to work for

Cons: The process can be quite stressful at times.

Pros: Cooperative & Open culture, even between investment desks. On the startup <-> bank culture scale it's very close to the startup end: low bureaucracy, emphasis on delivery. Senior management are accessible and approachable. Not too big that you end up only focused on a very niche tech/area (like FAANG), but big enough that you still get to see challenging problems. Technology is valued and not seen as second-class employees compared to investment. Quality of other people you interact with is pretty high.

Cons: The flip side of low bureaucracy is being light on project management. Sometimes getting things done is really about finding the right person to talk to get your request prioritized. While big data sets do exist, most of it is readily tractable just by being a decent dev. Don't come here expecting novel Google-scale work.