Smart people, interesting work, occasionally toxic - Quantitative Trader Optiver Employee Review

4.0
Jan 21, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Smart people, interesting work, everyone's driven, good environment to learn

Cons

Intense, a lot burn out and pay doesn't scale the way it used to

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5.0
Feb 24, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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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
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

you get some experience in the industry

Cons

the catering is too good

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