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4.1

69% would recommend to a friend

(162 total reviews)

Matt Schrecengost

74% approve of CEO

Ratings by category

4.5

Compensation and Benefits

4.2

Work/Life Balance

4.0

Diversity & Inclusion

3.9

Culture & Values

3.8

Career Opportunities

3.7

Senior Management

Ratings distribution

5 stars

57%

4 stars

21%

3 stars

13%

2 stars

7%

1 star

2%

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Pros
  • "Great people to work with.(in 31 reviews)
  • "Great culture and phenomenal pay(in 18 reviews)
  • "Pay is good, recruiting team is good(in 17 reviews)
  • "Good benefits are great and everywhere.(in 14 reviews)
  • "3. Generous compensations and good benefits.(in 6 reviews)
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Found 162 of over 222 reviews

Updated Nov 23, 2023

    1. 5.0
      Oct 24, 2023
      Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee
      Recommend
      CEO Approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Great Place to work all the time

      Cons

      None at all, thats it

      1. 1.0
        Nov 2, 2023
        Workplace Coordinator
        Former Employee, more than 1 year
        Austin, TX
        Recommend
        CEO Approval
        Business Outlook

        Pros

        - Health Benefits - Unlimited PTO ( just cant take it) - Great Pay

        Cons

        - Toxic fire culture - Horrible Management dictated by an erratic CEO - Pressure to work 55+ hours a week, then be asked to justify those hours, - Secretive about accounting, secret meetings, secret 1 on 1s - HR is the WORST. Snakes in grass doesn't even explain how horribly toxic having a HR rep check ins are. - Room for Growth if you are willing to rat on your coworkers - Constant travel (even as admin - on my birthday) - Got constant feedback I would be on the right track then my manager would roll me over about the smallest mistake

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        1. 2.0
          Oct 5, 2023
          Anonymous Employee
          Former Employee
          Chicago, IL
          Recommend
          CEO Approval
          Business Outlook

          Pros

          There are undoubtedly some highly skilled and intelligent people at Jump. The company is also good at hf trading.

          Cons

          There are obvious problems though. One is that the firm has no direction or plan. A lot of people doing work on dead end projects. Incredible politics and infighting between teams and offices. Major money thrown at non hf trading businesses with no result. Money thrown at people if they previously worked for certain competitors with no idea how they will fit in or add value. Seems to be a lot of guessing what to do next with no thought.

          8
          1. 5.0
            Jun 16, 2023
            Anonymous Employee
            Former Employee, more than 5 years
            Chicago, IL
            Recommend
            CEO Approval
            Business Outlook

            Pros

            I spent close to 6 years at Jump and it was some of the most impactful time in my career. They’re one of the rare companies that really lives their values: work hard with integrity and be kind to one another. If you’re one of the lucky ones with access to the founders and senior leaders you get to see that those values are genuine. It’s a place filled with brilliant, but more importantly, good people. Your colleagues genuinely want to see you succeed and you’re encouraged to push the envelope (even if it means getting it wrong sometimes). It’s a truly unique place and if you’re fortunate enough to get an offer, don’t hesitate - any time spent at Jump is well worth it.

            Cons

            They're small but mighty, so it's not a place where you can do sub-par work and hide.

            1. 4.0
              Aug 20, 2023
              Software Developer
              Former Employee, more than 5 years
              Chicago, IL
              Recommend
              CEO Approval
              Business Outlook

              Pros

              Lots of offices so travel to many places is a perk. Groups have good projects. People are friendly (mostly).

              Cons

              Linux group can be difficult to work with. There are project overlap that you might find that you have to compete with others. I think this is a fault of management in general, but to be fair to them they have to struggle with politics of the job.

              1. 4.0
                Jun 20, 2023
                Senior Software Engineer
                Former Employee, more than 10 years
                Chicago, IL
                Recommend
                CEO Approval
                Business Outlook

                Pros

                1. It's more like a high-tech company rather than a financial industry company. 2. The company is filled with brilliant people. 3. Generous compensations and good benefits. Cash bonus, and employee investment opportunities etc. 4. Good learning opportunities for technologies. Lots of company infrastructures are open to everyone. Just need to worry if you have enough time to learn. 5. Lots of daily office perks. Company parties are usually held in very prestige locations. 6 work / life balance is decent. In normal cases, do not need to work long hours for core teams. 7 many offices in the world. Good experience to visit offices in different countries.

                Cons

                1. very brutal competitions between trading teams. Trading teams trade similar products and use similar technologies. Talking between teams needs to very careful. 2. generally boring but demanding daily tasks. For a period of time, you will feel every thing is new. After a while, it's easy to get bored about daily tasks. To improve competition, it's involved with shaving off a few CPU instructions in the fast path or improving the prediction accuracies by a few percent. 3. less opportunities for newcomers. The firm had a very good foundation of software infrastructures. It left very little room to improve. so new projects are more related to bug fixes or tiny features improvements. 4. waste of top talents. After a few years, besides the bank accounts, those top talents spent their life in pretty meaningless optimizations or tiny works. No real impacts are generated to the external world. In the long run, these feelings will come back and make you doubt about your work even life. 5. The firm favors new graduates from top universities too much. They only held campus interviews in five or six ivy league or top tech universities. Sometimes, it will make regular joes uncomfortable working with so many top school talents.

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                1. 3.0
                  Jul 4, 2023
                  Software Developer
                  Current Employee, more than 1 year
                  Chicago, IL
                  Recommend
                  CEO Approval
                  Business Outlook

                  Pros

                  It's a trading company so pay is better than average though the work can be not inspired. Many smart people around.

                  Cons

                  I have not been here so long but it feels bloated and maybe struggling with so much tech debt and too many people. It is surprising how much process is manual and not right tool for job.

                  5
                  1. 5.0
                    Sep 14, 2023
                    Application Developer
                    Current Employee
                    Chicago, IL
                    Recommend
                    CEO Approval
                    Business Outlook

                    Pros

                    Great people. A lot of freedom.

                    Cons

                    There are many priorities… sometimes it’s hard to manage

                    1. 4.0
                      Aug 15, 2023
                      Software Engineer
                      Current Employee, more than 1 year
                      Chicago, IL
                      Recommend
                      CEO Approval
                      Business Outlook

                      Pros

                      Good mentorship opportunities for young engineers looking to build skillset quickly.

                      Cons

                      Can be lull periods/blockers where it becomes difficult to get work done.

                      1
                      1. 5.0
                        Aug 2, 2023
                        Researcher
                        Current Employee, more than 1 year
                        Chicago, IL
                        Recommend
                        CEO Approval
                        Business Outlook

                        Pros

                        Good team cultures, good people to learn from, chill work environment, work at your own pace and succeed according to your own efforts

                        Cons

                        Sometimes mentorship/feedback was a bit loose

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                      Jump Trading has an overall rating of 4.1 out of 5, based on over 222 reviews left anonymously by employees. 69% of employees would recommend working at Jump Trading to a friend and 61% have a positive outlook for the business. This rating has decreased by -8% over the last 12 months.

                      According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Jump Trading employees rate their compensation and benefits as 4.5 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Jump Trading. This rating has decreased by -2% over the last 12 months.

                      69% of Jump Trading employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews. Employees also rated Jump Trading 4.2 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.9 for culture and values and 3.8 for career opportunities.

                      According to reviews on Glassdoor, employees commonly mention the pros of working at Jump Trading to be career development, benefits, culture and the cons to be management, work life balance.

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                      im not sure but I feel embarrassed for randomly messaging a connection in LinkedIn and asked if he can refer me to the job that Im interested in at his company. this is my fist time doing this in my entire career of 17 yrs. based on some post on LI it is not unusual to ask for referral but will help you also get interviewed, i have an initial interview with the HR last Monday and I send a follow up email to her but no reply so I thought of messaging a connection in LI. thoughts?

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                      Do recruiters actually look at linked in profiles after a candidate has applied for a job? My resume is the most updated document, not so much my linked in profile. Is it a must to update my profile (with info about what was done in each role) or does a well executed resume suffice?

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                      Being the holiday season, is now a bad time to apply for a job?

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