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Updated Jul 22, 2022
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- "I worked eight or nine hour days, but knew another intern on my team that worked 10" (in 3 reviews)
- Current Employee★★★★★
Pros
Everyone is heavily focused on growth and very passionate
Cons
The company has poor gender diversity
- Current Employee, more than 1 year★★★★★
Best company to work for!!!!
Jul 14, 2022 - Talent Acquisition Coordinator in Chicago, ILRecommendCEO ApprovalBusiness OutlookPros
-Excellent Culture -Amazing Benefits -Opportunity for Growth -Great Employee Engagement -Office Experience and Perks are Excellent
Cons
there are no cons that I can think of!
- Former Employee, more than 8 years★★★★★
Could be great or very bad
Jul 12, 2022 - Quantitative Researcher in Chicago, ILRecommendCEO ApprovalBusiness OutlookPros
Back in the day it was probably the best place to work in the world. Amazing work environment and culture. Management was incredibly effective in getting things done quickly, and lots of room for growth. I joined because it felt like a true tech company. It was small and nimble and highly energetic place to work.
Cons
If you're not in one of the top teams, you're pretty much a second-class citizen starved of resources. Even the top teams now are huge, and it might be very difficult to make a difference. I've left years ago, and it's a really bad sign that pretty much all really talented people I admired have also left. Personally, I faced tremendous resistance to new ideas. Mind you, this was not management's direct fault, but rather part of my team's culture. Maybe at other teams it was better. There were some truly toxic people there as well, but they'all gone by now. Management should have fired these people much sooner than they did. Unless you're in a top team, you will not be allowed to trade the most profitable markets, such as crypto and China. Overall support for the compute cluster and operations is also degraded. These are all just annoying headwinds... it's almost like they do not really want you to succeed. It seems that political skills are far more important than technical skills nowadays at Jump. There is definitely a political upper class at Jump. If you can somehow manage this and are skilled at constantly stroking people's fragile egos, you might do well there. On an even sadder note - some people who have recently joined Jump expressed some disappointment at the technical abilities of people at the top. Politics Skills over Technical Skills
Continue reading - Current Employee, more than 1 year★★★★★
Fantastic Company
May 20, 2022 - Platform Reliability Engineer in Chicago, ILRecommendCEO ApprovalBusiness OutlookPros
Smartest people I have ever worked with and an incredible culture and office.
Cons
Definitely get thrown into it head first and you have to learn a lot on your own, but if you can keep up its where you want to be.
- Former Employee, more than 10 years★★★★★
World class trading organization
Mar 19, 2022 - Quantitative Trader in Chicago, ILRecommendCEO ApprovalBusiness OutlookPros
Jump is a world class trading organization. They hire the best of the best and invest heavily in all aspects of their technology stack. If you believe in yourself - your intelligence, skills, and work ethic - then this is where you want to be. Joining Jump was the best decision I ever made. I will be forever grateful that I got to be a part of this organization.
Cons
Jump is composed of many trading teams which operate largely independently of each other. This is undoubtedly an organizational strength, as it leads to small, highly motivated teams, and to an incredible diversity of ideas and strategies across the firm. But there are some downsides to this structure. There can be some reinventing of the wheel across teams. And it can be hard to find meaningful opportunities to interact with and learn from people across team boundaries.
- Former Employee, less than 1 year★★★★★
Pros
high pay; low living cost
Cons
- not diverse environment (9:1 male:female ratio)
- Current Employee, more than 3 years★★★★★
Best Place For Researchers
Mar 15, 2022 - Quant Researcher in Chicago, ILRecommendCEO ApprovalBusiness OutlookPros
Freedom and resources to pursue ideas. Qualified co-workers with expertise in various fields from hardware to pure math.
Cons
Not much structure so sometimes hard to get a quorum on the same page.
Continue reading - Current Employee★★★★★
Pros
Great people to work with. Company is growing fast and definitely a lot of opportunities.
Cons
Have to work with competing priorities.
- Current Employee, more than 8 years★★★★★
Pros
Badass smart and humble employees Fresh innovative technology and business strategies Continued flat/informal work environment even in the midst of explosive growth and success
Cons
The environment can be tough if you are uncomfortable operating with evolving and fluid accountabilities
Continue reading - Current Employee★★★★★
Pros
My perspective is as an engineer who has been at the firm for a few years (pre-covid). There are plenty of smart people here though there are just a lot of people here. It's more or less typical Chicago HFT firm inside with standard benefits and perks. Good on WFH policy.
Cons
It has definitely changed for the worse during my time here. The rate of hiring is unbelievable and little thought seems to go into how new people will be managed and integrated. Everyone just wants more headcount. Doubling a big firm into a very big firm in 3 years without any structural changes has just created pandemonium and confusion. My manager told me the other day we are going to outsource some software development work to Romania. That is something I never thought I would hear. Everyone is busy and many things get started. Few get finished or show good results though. There is profits in certain areas but overall feels stale despite the frantic pace. And with all of the people comes the exponential growth of politics. The management says we are flat and without politics but it is funny (and sad) how wrong that is. Nobody on my team believes that and judging by informal conversations it is not believed elsewhere.
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Jump Trading has an overall rating of 4.4 out of 5, based on over 163 reviews left anonymously by employees. 90% of employees would recommend working at Jump Trading to a friend and 81% have a positive outlook for the business. This rating has improved by 6% over the last 12 months.
90% 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, 4.4 for culture and values and 4.4 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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