Decent - Trader Optiver Employee Review

3.0
Oct 12, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The money is good. Sometimes interesting work.

Cons

Most of the money you make goes to shareholder and managers. Let's say you have just joined and the spot you are trading makes 10m in a year. Half will go to shareholders, most of the rest will go to managers, and you'd take home a bonus of maybe 200-300k. For the first few years your boss will literally earn 20x what you are in bonuses, and he won't even be enduring the stress of trading. Still pretty good money though.

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5.0
Feb 24, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

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
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

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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