Squarepoint Capital

People always say the food but I felt the gesture was more like feeding dairy cows while they are being milked to improve productivity.

Nothing they do is ever because they care or value you.

I agree with many other posts that talk about your mileage varies depending on what team, this is true and I worked for one of the worst. As others have stated in other reviews every team gets broken down into individuals who are deemed essential and the rest. - Essential members typically can receive far more flexible work from home arrangements and even permanent remote.

Your attendance will be tracked by some pit boss team leaders like grade school.

• When being hired you are made to feel like you're joining a team of rockstars as they only hire great people but in reality those who are able to last more than 2 years at SP are anything but.
• The role of most new hires is to free the essential members from routine/mundane tasks and work that is beneath their station.
• What passes for team leaders and essential members are woefully underwhelming and over the years have lost touch with industry. Although they get lots of new blood they never improve and catch up with industry peers as joiners are relegated to mundane activities.
• Mid and senior level industry professionals will want to leave screaming.

You will work with and for incredibly insecure people who simply are not interested in the slightest how other places do anything. In fact showing capability has gotten many people walked out for "lack of fit"- When you are asked for feedback or questioned, the safest answer is fine, great, wonderful.

Questions or comments will get you walked out, even innocently.

• The only people who have any business joining SP are: sponsored visa holders as a way into a country, new graduates, those prepared to suffer 2 years to bridge into finance or hop to a proper firm, those who already work mundane IT jobs elsewhere and this is a substantial pay rise for more of the same.
• Those coming from an investment bank will realize the bonus and performance manage system is informal without any objective setting or KPI or metrics and driven by how your pit boss team leader feels about you.

If you relish licking the plate clean after your team lead squeezed something onto it and asking for seconds you will do fine in that system.- Most of the roles involve living on Teams and Jira and are essentially remote work that they make you come into the office to do.

Best of luck with your human dairy farm. Mooo