Flow Traders reviews

3.8

66% would recommend to a friend

(200 total reviews)
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Mike Kuehnel

88% approve of CEO

51% positive business outlook

Flow Traders has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 200 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Flow Traders employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Financial Services industry (3.7 stars).

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200 reviews
5.0
Aug 24, 2021
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Pros

Everyone here is an expert at what they do and wishes only the best. People are easy to work with, the work itself is challenging and fulfilling, the office is very nice as well

Cons

Too much to do. Sometimes it feels like drowning.

5.0
Sep 1, 2020

Phenomenal environment for the ambitious and driven

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

-Entrepreneurial environment that encourages new ideas and allows one to rapidly assume meaningful responsibility -Focus on business expansion opens ample opportunities for personal growth and achievement -Flat structure and emphasis on teamwork makes management extremely accessible and helpful -Excellent amenities, including a spacious office overlooking Bryant Park, catered lunch and snacks, weekly massages, company trips, happy hours, etc. -Unique mix of tenures - new joiners often find themselves learning from colleagues who have been with the firm for years (some since its founding!)

Cons

-Rapid growth and focus on new sources of value trades off with efficiency, generating a significant operational workload and consuming resources which could otherwise be spent on innovation -Similarly, project-level coordination between teams can take a backseat to driving forward progress, resulting in otherwise-avoidable inefficiencies and surprises -Fixed compensation is - while still quite comfortable - on the lower end for competitors of the same caliber (especially for traders) -The performance evaluation process (and how it ties into variable compensation) can be opaque

5.0
May 11, 2020

Striving for Excellence

Recommend
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Pros

Working at Flow Traders has been a great experience! It has a forward thinking culture with the type of environment that encourages everyone's opinions and rewards hard work. The New York office is small, which enables you to have a lot of ownership and responsibility. The office often feels like one big family full of focused people striving for excellence, but at the same time very down to earth. The benefits/perks are the some of the best in the industry and management puts a lot of time into accommodating to all employee's needs.

Cons

I can't think of any serious cons to working here. It is important to understand that Flow Traders is a small firm that at times can feel like a "startup". That said, some resources that you may be used to at a big firm do not exist here. Teams are smaller, so sometimes you need to be more dynamic.

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