Don’t work for this company - Anonymous employee Optiver Employee Review

1.0
Jul 4, 2023
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Nice canteen, good location, good benefits

Cons

Toxic culture, very incapable management team, no career growth opportunity, a lot of incapable people who I don’t understand how they get hired, I guess the recruiters don’t know what they’re doing.

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5.0
Feb 24, 2026
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Pros

worked on a lot of different areas of the trading stack; often close with researchers learned about technical components for data driven trading saw my impact day to day

Cons

constant office renovations were a bit distracting, but was told it should be done in 2026

3.0
Jun 27, 2026
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Pros

you get some experience in the industry

Cons

the catering is too good

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