Susquehanna International Group Reviews

Pros

Good working environment.
Employs some of the best talented people.
Free breakfast, lunch and snacks.
Onsite Gym etc.

Cons

Average salary and poor career growth opportunity.

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 Senior 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 does 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.

Pros

Free food all day, free gym, flexible hours, casual dress, fun events, SIG swag, etc. It's definitely a great place to work.

Cons

The only downsides I can think of are that it's not located in the city of Philadelphia, and pay could be more competitive

Pros

Food provided all day, free gym, all employees show respect and professionalism, casual environment is productive, and many opportunities for interns here. Bala location is 13 minutes from the Philadelphia area, with a Target conveniently located across the street

Cons

7am to 5pm work days can easily wear you out....but they compensate you for the longer workweek....I turned down much higher paying jobs to work here (but the position makes up for it)

Pros

Great benefits such as lunch provided every day and on-site gym facilities. Laid back and casual environment (outside of the trade floor).

Cons

Strongly encouraged to work through lunch due to the trade floor environment.

Pros

Great freedom and autonomy given to newer employees in project work; good, casual environment; flat office hierarchy (which can be appealing)

Cons

If you don't fit the bill for "trader" as an AT, you're bound to get fired without forewarning; flat office hierarchy (which limits advancement)

Advice to Senior Management

The education department could do better keeping ATs informed about their performance and risk of being let go.

Pros

Free lunches, gym, social events

Cons

Lack of career advancement - no career path

Pros

Responsibility is earned, and granted.

Cons

Severe restrictions on personal trades. Took away cookies at lunch.

Advice to Senior Management

Please stop trying to regulate the food we eat. Let the skinny people eat what they want.

Pros

there is a very good training programme

Cons

the hours can be quite long.

Advice to Senior Management

they do a great job

Pros

SIG is a place filled with smart people with a great community. Free lunch. Comfortable environment to collaborate with others. Challenging work at times with many resources and people to learn from.

Cons

It is difficult at times to see your future at SIG when you are not on a particular track.