Mostly OK - Trader Optiver Employee Review

2.0
Jan 29, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Money is good vs most jobs. Interesting problems to work on.

Cons

Work life balance is not good, if that's important to you try IMC instead. Every 6 months you have to argue/defend why you deserve to be paid. The verdict can be poor performance even if you are making the company record amounts of money. If pay is important to you probably better to go to Citadel. Optiver makes a lot of money but 2/3 of it goes to shareholders. After that most goes to managers, and the company has been progressively top heavy recently.

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Cons

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Pros

you get some experience in the industry

Cons

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