Pros: Flat organization. Good free food, summer parties, several smart people with big egos. Relaxed dress code.

Cons: Flat organization with training focused primarily on traders. One has to become bosses pet to get good work and raises. Highly skewed against women. Too many egos of long timers.

Pros: Wlb is great. Col is great

Cons: Growth I heard is parabolic so might be slow at start until you gain more trust. Tech is more like quant dev in front office roles. You are focused on making trading better for the firm. So if you are heavy on tech not sure if this is the right job

Pros: Big company so can pay big. Competitive pay for new grads. Free lunch. Other fun perks (poker tournament, free zoo trips, baseball games). Great for introverts. We all had standing desks. Provided WFH setup.

Cons: No titles which I think makes growth difficult-- and harder to use market research in salary negotiations. Lots of individual work and very little collaboration. Work-life balance is a challenge (9-hour days). Most teams stuck in old tech (they don't use Git, some teams still stuck in Python 2). This company is not people-first-- it was clear to me at least that management cares more about money than its employees. Employees have been fighting for the option to WFH for years, and even after quarantine they're still fighting. Really just off-putting company culture. But if you enjoy mostly working on your own, getting a big paycheck, and working for the weekend (no shame in any of that!) then this might be a good place for you-- that's why I think it's not a bad place to end your career. I do think it's a mistake to start your career here though.