Management will actively sabotage promotion, culture is full of nepotism, managers will ask you disgusting questions on personal life, overtime for no pay, management will demean you at all opportunities.
Interactive Brokers Response
9mo
We value all feedback from former employees as it helps us reflect on our workplace practices. We respect your perspective, but this presents a view that differs significantly from our company's policies and the experience reported by the majority of our team members. At IBKR, we strive to maintain a professional environment where advancement is based on performance and where compensation practices align with industry standards and legal requirements.
* no sign-on bonus or initial rsu grant; stock is granted at year-end and still subject to a 5-year vesting schedule
* 401k match takes 6 years to fully vest
* very old tech stack, with little to no effort to modernize anything
* most engineering managers have been here for 15+ years and seem fairly out of touch with how modern tech companies operate; communication is difficult and there’s a noticeable lack of vision