What are perks and other benefits like at Optiver?

Great pay, benefits, culture, and hours

Could argue it isn't as prestigious as some other firms

Benefits, and pay. Educated workforce. Good hours relative to what you expect. You can learn and grow quickly.

Too many firings, hard to get attached to people because sad seeing friends get cut. Dutch culture is not normal for Aus/NZ raised kids (more so NZ than people growing up in Syd/Melb). Too much advertisement on how good the firm and culture is. Always good image. Not HFT or hedge fund, its 'market making', and 'we love our women' while having a very boys club trading floor, and HR protection for the senior staff. For every graduate employee that makes it into high bonuses, another gets casted out into unemployment and mental health issues. Every year the graduate group come in all optimistic, think the cut throat culling of grads is in the past and changed, that everyone will be happy - little do they know everything is a test, being evaluated constantly, and hugely intelligent people get kicked out each year regardless. But don't worry, you can get paid well and have all the benefits of food and high end perks, but you may very well come out with long term health issues. You can even find a youtube ad of Optiver back in the day where an old man on a bench gets an errection. That culture is still entrenced.

Good staff benefits, reasonable hours, good pay

Can be demanding and limited growth opportunity

Optiver has a range of supportive benefits that really looks after your holistic wellbeing, such as daily breakfast and lunch, gym memberships as well as weekly massages. You also get to work alongside incredibly talented people and your opinons are always valued and heard.

There aren't many cons here.

it has very good pay and other benefits

The working environment and culture are not great

- Surrounded by smart, driven people. - Good pay and all round benefits - Invest in your growth and allows role changes where you show potential in.

- Long hours - Little to no breaks - Non-Hybrid

Great Pay Good benefits and food Smart people

Intense Bad WLB Eat at desk Pressure

Good pay and good benefits

There isn't anything much to say

Fast paced, good benefits, and a very nice office w/ catered food. Perks like any other same tier HFT firm.

IT management frat house culture. The longer someone has been with the company directly relates to how hard it is to work with them and not in a positive way. "We don't do that here" mentality. Beware coming in with ideas of your own. You will be met with push back and the feeling that you are stepping on individual's toes. The best idea does not win here, office politics does. Optiver management is made up of individuals who are either yes-men, blindly doing the bidding of those above them without an inkling of how their decisions effect their team, or on the other hand grads who have never worked anywhere else.

Great Plaza to relax and eat, amazing colleagues, great benefits. City of Amsterdam is amazing

Long trading hours, lot of manual trading