Citadel Quantitative Software Developer reviews

The atmosphere is filled with alpha personalities. This can make people uneasy. There are political undercurrents. Management legitimately tries to rise above the politics and reward merit, but that can fail at times. Entire divisions can be let go through no fault of the "little guy," but there is a "throw the baby out with the bath water" attitude.

There is zero mobility within, if you want to acquire new skills or move within departments, or move closer to business..it is virtually impossible. The place is well oiled money making machine. Each person is expected to do its small part of an assebmly line. Management don't like when people ask to do something else even relevant to what their skill set is. Especially, if you do your job very well, they just want you to stay where you. Management will promise you bright future/new opportunities to learn, in order to keep you at your assembly point as long as possible, but these promises never fullfilled. A lot of politics. Management think they are so smart and experienced, they don't need any ideas from their subordinates/employees and just manage as they think fit with total disregard/ignorance for good ideas coming from employees. That makes a lot of efforts/new things fail, like their securities business or other efforts in fixed income. No respect for people, it is just a replaceable commodity. This is the worst place out of few hedge funds I worked for, even far worse then SAC Capital. Glad I got out. My advice is you want to grow your career, don't come here. If you don't care about growing anymore and just want to make top money for your skills, this is the place for you.