Simplex Reviews

Pros

* You start becoming productive on day one. There is no drawn out onboarding process. You start writing and committing code right away. The transition is smooth yet definite.
* The team has some really smart engineers who perform at a very high level. It is surprising how every developer does so many different things and does it well.
* You get total ownership of your projects and you mostly have complete autonomy on how to go about it and there is always help if you need
* Good production monitoring system

Pros

Free lunch and snacks, but the snacks are primarily some of the unhealthiest junk available.

Pros

Plenty of in house analytics at our disposal.

Advice to Management

Honor initial profit splits.

Pros

Good place to learn
Work environment was generally young, hard working, intelligent people

Advice to Management

Invest in long term careers of employees, be more transparent about expectations

Pros

Good place to get your feet wet. Begin looking for a new job when you accept this one.

Advice to Management

Invest in your employees and pay them a decent wage.

Pros

Good introduction to options trading while getting paid minimum wage and high amounts of stress. It feels like your achieving, but the reality is much different I believe. Trading is a lot like Hollywood, lots of wannabes and very few make it. It's unfortunate because its a very interesting industry

Advice to Management

Improve software so much that you don't have to hire naive young people to sit there and pretend they're actually trading. In other words automate away the need to hire nontechnical people.

Pros

If you are an established and seasoned developer, you will do good here

Advice to Management

Nurture hires straight out of college to grow in their role. Reorganize IT in such a way that there are mentors and team leads to guide and help others.

Pros

great company to work in.

Advice to Management

none

Pros

Literally nothing besides the free lunch that they advertise nonstop.

Advice to Management

Keep on doing what you're doing- it's making you a ton of money. Advice to employees? Get out as soon as you can.

Pros

The best thing about working at Simplex is you have the freedom to explore any opportunity that interests you.

I can come in with an idea for a new strategy that I want to explore. I have all the data, resources, and personnel at my fingertips to help me research this new idea to see if it is viable. If it is, I can present the idea to the group to get some constructive feedback, and pass the final spec on to the development team. Within a few days, I can have a fully functional program contributing to the firm.

If you are creative, innovative, and self-motivated, you will both enjoy working here and be compensated well.

I have worked at Simplex for almost 8 years now, and this is by far the smartest and most talented team of developers and traders we have ever had. The work environment is casual and comfortable, but still promotes productivity. The work/life balance is also great.