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Excellent place to work but little career opportunity

Software Developer
Former Employee
Worked at Susquehanna International Group for less than 1 year
September 22, 2011
4.0
RecommendsApproves of CEO
Pros

Competitive salary and benefits Relaxed work environment (can wear jeans for example) Work with very intelligent people Can use a variety of technologies, whatever is best suited Challenging and fun work with a rapid development flow Little micro management Privately owned so not a lot of bureaucracy

Cons

50 hour work week (45 in office)

Lacks a good tuition reimbursement program, existing one is inadequate

Little room for growth and additional responsibility regardless of glowing performance reviews

Also work with very incompetent people

The catered lunches are pretty awful

Very opaque senior management

Poor communication between teams which creates redundancy and a lack of ownership

No code reviews

Working at home greatly discouraged

Advice to Management

A significant amount of fat could be trimmed from the IT department.

There's a need to do much more to separate the very good developers from the poor ones. They often work on projects of the same level of importance. You have some very intelligent people on hand that could be utilized better and having a more fluid horizontal would help in this.

10 average developers do not equal 1 expert developer so shift the focus more on quality than quantity.

Provide a better way to continue education if it's pertinent to the work being done.

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