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    Jump Trading Reviews

    Updated November 24, 2018
    60 reviews

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    Pros

    • "Great environment, smart people, good benefits" (in 10 reviews)

    • "The working environment is nice, and I always feel energetic when I was working in the firm" (in 8 reviews)

    Cons

    • "Demanding working environment, a lot of pressure and hard to have life work balance" (in 2 reviews)

    • "disconnected among teams, collaboration needs improvement" (in 2 reviews)

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    1. Helpful (3)

      "Trader"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I worked at Jump Trading full-time

      Pros

      Fantastic organizational structure. Management is easily accessible. Colleagues are the best and brightest in the industry. Comfortable working environment allows you to be yourself and not worry about perceptions. Rigorous work ethic all around.

      Cons

      Five words for Cons. There are no cons.

    2. Helpful (1)

      "Algorithmic Trader"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee

      I worked at Jump Trading full-time

      Pros

      Great ppl to work with. Interesting work to do

      Cons

      Not so good working environment. Also compensation completely determined by you boss, and it depends on how much he likes you. There's not really much metric to show your performance.

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    3. Helpful (1)

      "Really Depends on the team"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee

      I have been working at Jump Trading full-time

      Pros

      Success highly depends what team you're on.

      Cons

      Needs to branch out of HFT which is becoming highly competitive.

    4. Helpful (5)

      "Great Company, but downsizing.."

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      Former Employee - Director in Chicago, IL
      Former Employee - Director in Chicago, IL
      Doesn't Recommend
      Neutral Outlook
      No opinion of CEO

      I worked at Jump Trading full-time (More than 5 years)

      Pros

      Treated employee very well and compensation was outstanding

      Cons

      When they were done with you they tossed you out. The competitive nature of the industry means they will quickly discard you if they want to move in a different direction.

    5. Helpful (12)

      "Heavily invests into employees like there *is* tomorrow"

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      Current Employee - Working for One of the Trading Teams in New York, NY
      Current Employee - Working for One of the Trading Teams in New York, NY
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at Jump Trading full-time (More than a year)

      Pros

      Jump invests in it's employees as if we all are going to stay with the company for decades. Which is what many of us plan to do, as long as one's trading team stays profitable.

      Examples speak better than words:
       1. Almost any data set is available internally, and catered lunches and a lot of company-arranged events make it so that different trading teams know each other and talk and cross-pollinate data, ideas and even technical tricks (the latter is very different from most Jump's competitors where different trading teams are secretive and don't share),
       2. Jump pays for all sorts of internal trainings (I took Advanced Python and one of big data classes, planning to take FPGA class next)
       3. I saw two teams dissolved for bad performance this year, however almost all of the former employees of those teams... ended up joining other more successful trading groups within the firm, internally

      Cons

      Structure is very flat, which could be viewed as a disadvantage. For example, if your idea of career growth is to have important-sounding job titles and promotions every other year... that's not going to happen! Instead, as you grow within the company you'll get to mentor junior colleagues and/or play with increasingly more sophisticated technical "toys".

    6. "Senior trader"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I worked at Jump Trading full-time

      Pros

      Leading edge tech. No ego owners.

      Cons

      Challenging to have skills growth

    7. "positive overall experience"

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      Current Employee - Trader Trainee in Chicago, IL
      Current Employee - Trader Trainee in Chicago, IL
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I have been working at Jump Trading (More than a year)

      Pros

      Great environment, smart people, good benefits

      Cons

      career mobility paths not always clear

    8. Helpful (1)

      "Trade Operations"

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      Former Employee - Trader in Chicago, IL
      Former Employee - Trader in Chicago, IL
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I worked at Jump Trading full-time (More than 3 years)

      Pros

      Well run competitive team atmosphere.

      Cons

      Because of competitiveness, camaraderie suffers.

      Advice to Management

      Company wide networking events.

    9. Helpful (2)

      "good"

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      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Current Employee - Anonymous Employee

      I have been working at Jump Trading full-time

      Pros

      benefits, time, bonus, training, lunch

      Cons

      work hours life balance no

    10. Helpful (2)

      "Good Experience"

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      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Former Employee - Anonymous Employee
      Recommends
      Positive Outlook
      Approves of CEO

      I worked at Jump Trading full-time

      Pros

      Compensation good, casual environment, access to excellent tech, brilliant coworkers

      Cons

      Lots of org reshuffling, teams are very siloed, little opportunity to move within the org, somewhat bloated headcount-wise, lots of fires