Algorithmics Reviews

Pros

Very competent people as colleagues and supervisors

Cons

Not a lot of knowledge sharing

Pros

It is a very flexible environment

Cons

Key decisions need to be taken

Advice to Senior Management

No

Pros

Thought leaders
Strong team culture
Strong sales culture
Some tremendous and commercially savvy risk specialists bringing innovative approaches to problem solving
If you are interested in risk, this is a great place to learn

Cons

Weak HR
Confused leadership
Weak implementation team
Quiclkly absorbing a full set of distasteful IBM traits and losing client focus

Advice to Senior Management

Focus on your clients and try to retain your staff through more effective management.

Pros

Excellent building, location, good variety of highly intelligent people (outside of marketing) to interact with and learn from. Subsidized cafeteria, excellent benefits package, and flex hours.

Cons

Poor management hiring practices. Unacceptable favoritism, an affair that resulted in extreme nepotism, and generally poor HR involvement when conflict arose. Not a very challenging environment to work in for sales-driven individuals. No marketing strategy--simply sales support

Advice to Senior Management

Stop hiring people who have zero communications skills or savvy when it comes to dealing with a diverse set of personalities. Stop spending time and money on wasteful endeavors that result in no revenue or process improvements. Stop touting the company in its image 20 years ago and build a truthful one applicable to today's realities.

Pros

Great analytics, software platform and casual work environment.

Cons

Weak senior management, low bonuses

Pros

Great brand and marketing and a lot of very smart people, and an impressive client base.

Cons

Their business model is completely upside down and management and loyalists have difficulty understanding the difference between business and dogma.

Pros

Above average base salary
Very smart and talented product and management team
Great Benefits and Travel

Cons

Not aggressive in going after business
Not familiar with all markets they were involved with.

Pros

Great people in the software and financial engineering side.
Good documentation
Good work life balance
Casual attire
Some traveling

Cons

People with no financial or software development knowledge have recently been assigned senior management positions. They are making very poor decisions and alienating the employees. This new management has created a poisonous environment and many good people have left Algo in the recent couple of years.

Advice to Senior Management

listen to your employees and reward the people who do the real work.

Pros

* Flexible hours.
* Opportunity to learn a lot for junior staff.
* In general, people are very polite.
* In general, people will share some knowledge.

Cons

* Lack of planning and management.
* Salary is acceptable to low, compared to similar companies in the same industry.
* No work life balance,
* No opportunity to advance, unless you've spent a long time with the company.
* Very few Software Engineers are actually good.
* No code reviews, virtually no communication, isolation.
* Most employees don't really understand how their work impact the business, they just write code.

Advice to Senior Management

* Instead of being focused on quick deliveries, the management must dedicate reasonable time to provide working and high quality software products.
* Poor planning and decision making will drive you to an end. Lots of good resources left already, but yet it doesn't look like a warning sign.

Pros

Great culture of respect and reward. There has been a big emphasis in the last 2 years on improving morale and recognition, which has been very well received. The company really does value it's culture and now strives to protect it.

Cons

Sometimes long hours, due to clients with demanding requirements. But this is offset by a flexible work/life balance policy, and the ability to mitigate travel with working from home and other flexible options. Respect for the individual is important to the firm.

Advice to Senior Management

To continue the progress made in furthering the culture of change and dynamism within the company. To also further strenghten client trust and cooperation.