Awesome company! Successful, Ethical, Fun - Anonymous employee Optiver Employee Review

5.0
Aug 29, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Optiver Chicago is an amazing office with great people. The executive team is young, principled and accessible without tendencies to micro-manage or impose questionable policies. The overall culture of the Chicago office in particular is very nice, very diverse, and extremely active. There is always a cool outing or volunteering activity going on. People are proud to be here and there tends to be a good mix of old and new employees. There is turnover but it seems to be less than other places ive either worked at or heard of, seems natural. The office is growing which is exciting and the management and support teams do a good job of scaling without discomfort. Overall I really think this is a good place to work and if you work hard and can keep up with an all star team its a great place to be.

Cons

I honestly don't have many material cons to add. Extended hours on the Barista? Longer massages?

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5.0
Feb 24, 2026
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Pros

worked on a lot of different areas of the trading stack; often close with researchers learned about technical components for data driven trading saw my impact day to day

Cons

constant office renovations were a bit distracting, but was told it should be done in 2026

3.0
May 21, 2026
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Pros

Good compensation, collaborative environment. Company also seems to aim to be at forefront of new tech such as AI

Cons

When HR mgmt is on record stating things like the company shouldn’t hire females anymore, it really makes you wonder how they make decisions on who should fill management positions

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