Pros: 3 years ago, it was work life balance but none recently due to the new management style

Cons: Leadership imported from banking rather than trading has brought a counterproductive management culture that fails to grasp trading tech. Instead of focusing on foundational technology, management relies on endless, useless meetings and arbitrary deadlines to exert control via performance plans. Cliques, superficial discussions, and a pervasive blame culture now dominate the environment. With uncompetitive pay already an issue, this toxic shift is bound to trigger a rapid talent exodus.

Pros: - Office view is excellent - Lunch every day is a great perk - Work events are always very good

Cons: Technology is very old, experienced workforce means resistant to change. Things I've seen - A single service account to manage every production service across the office - A crontab filled with 50+ schedules, changed using vim, not versioned - Comment "Why did I learn testing at university, I haven't written a single test here" - Near zero use of standard technology like containers - Deployments done by manual 'cp' binaries from dev to prod - No concepts of SLO's or basic SRE principles - Can't use the latest versions of VSCode because the development machines don't support it The Sydney office is far behind the US office in terms of technology. The US office is also behind relative to its American peers. There are some discussions on Reddit showcasing this. If you are a trader, SIG can be a great place to learn and you will be remunerated well. If you are a technologist, this is not the bleeding edge that you are led to believe it is.

Pros: A flat structure is not for everyone but it means that it has limited politics and bs going on so people can actually focus on the tech, the magic and get things delivered

Cons: Compensation is staying behind compare to competitor, so turn over is on the high side