Susquehanna International Group

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

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.

Tech needs to really catch up with the other offices, I would be surprised if new graduates stay more than 1 year.