Squarepoint Capital

• 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.

• 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.

We must implement more explicit hierarchy and structure in the company.

We need to implement KPIs.