be fair, honest and open with your employees - Trader Optiver Employee Review

2.0
Jun 8, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

--pay is good for junior traders as well as senior traders with no skills. --perks are good. --most people are friendly. --expanding nicely.

Cons

--management not open to new and possibly better ideas. everything has to be done his exact way. many times, the end result is the initially proposed solution and management is not willing to admit being wrong. --as with many companies, how well you perform matters very little compared to how much management likes you, even though there are very objective metrics for a trading firm: P&L!!! they will find excuses to cut your bonus significantly.

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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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