Pros
None at the moment after founder took a step back
Cons
Akuna used to be vibrant, competent, hopeful and I really saw a future with some of the most capable and hard working people I've met during the interview process. All those people have left over the years, due to dissatisfaction with compensation, disappointment with senior management, and/or exhaustion from extreme nepotism. The CEO, who is a narrow-minded expert at office politics, focused on firing people with different (but better) opinions and promoting "his guys" who are mostly young and arrogant traders who hasn't seen better. Strategic decisions are lackluster and all efforts are directed internally at a larger slice of the pie despite the pie shrinking significantly in size. While the entire industry is moving towards greater automation and more quantitative approaches, these empowered manual traders who know no math and write no code are making long-term decisions pushing the firm in the opposite direction. Akuna has close to zero senior quantitative talent at the moment after a few of the best minds left this year, and the only such talent remaining is likely only staying due to reasons extraneous to the job itself. More than half of the quants would quit today if they did not have visa/status concerns. You should stay away if you have any career ambitions.