Jump Trading Reviews

Pros

Cutting edge difficult problems and the top tools. Dynamic open collaborative environment. Excellent compensation and benefits. Flat hierarchy. Great upper management

Cons

Cutting edge difficult problems and long hours.

Pros

Very smart, talented, hard working people who don't have egos and are easy to work with. Everyone is treated with respect. The company invests heavily to keep up with and continually outpace the industry. Very forward thinking. Compensation and benefits are excellent. Good office space in Chicago.

Cons

It's a big company, so there is some of the inevitable big company slowness. But it isn't too bad. Not too many lunch options around the Chicago office.

Pros

- Compensation and benefits are great. - Feels more like a tech company than finance. Always interesting things going on, trying crazy new ideas and seeing what works out. Makes diverse bets in many different directions. - Chicago office is improved dramatically after 6th floor expansion and Cafe/Barista addition. - It's casual, it's not too formal or stifling. #thedailydog. Friday song. Shrec (CEO) is charismatic and knows everybody by name. - Things always seem to be getting better, not worse.

Cons

- Jump isn't as agile as they think they are. TONNES OF TECH DEBT. A general fear of changes taking out production trading means that getting stuff fixed or improved is often slower than it should be. Coredev somewhat dysfunctional. - Not exactly a Meritocracy. Front office trading teams take the lions share of profits, though back office are working their butts off to make sure everything can run smoothly. - Not much of a bigger picture. There appears to be no greater purpose to the work than profiting off the markets. Jump entices hundreds of incredibly smart people, who might otherwise be solving important issues in the real world, to just polish the P&L - for scientists and engineers, it's kind of an empty goal.

Pros

- Lots of intellectual stimulation and constant access to hard but interesting problems - Combination of analytically and quantitatively smart but humble peers - Culture is paramount and the company puts a high value to maintaining great culture - Top of the line benefits and compensation

Cons

- Company is growing through an inflection point and expansion - so expected kinks as it navigates through that but nothing serious

Pros

Decent work environment, if you can handle the whole open concept type of seating arrangements. Pay seems pretty good.

Cons

Too much politics. Either you're in the group of golden children or you're definitely not. Too many high-level people, yet not very good project management.

Pros

Pay cut ratio is fabulous.

Cons

Algo trading industry as a whole is saturating.

Pros

Benefits are competitive, generous compensation structure.

Cons

Senior management has very little experience with running a firm like Jump. This means many people making decisions for the organization who don't understand the downstream effects.