Very competitive - Senior Software Engineer Optiver Employee Review

4.0
Jul 20, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Very good expertise in options market making and position taking. They always have more ideas to make money than they have dev resources to throw at them. As a goog developer with a little bit of understanding of the business side there's heaps of opportunities to do well.

Cons

The company has gotten very big in recent years, and has been losing its initial start up feel. The performance evaluation for developers often tends to prioritize shorter term deliveries. Big projects that span multiple review cycles and take a while to show their value tend to get under rewarded. This creates the wrong incentives among developers.

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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
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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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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