Jump Trading reviews

4.2

78% would recommend to a friend

(221 total reviews)

Matt Schrecengost

83% approve of CEO

69% positive business outlook

Jump Trading has an employee rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 221 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Jump Trading employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Financial Services industry (3.6 stars).

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221 reviews
2.0
Jun 16, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

The money is fine and the hours are not bad but the work is dull and pointless. Yes there is a kitchen and office perks are not bad.

Cons

The first thing to be clear about Jump is that it is not a tech company. It is a high frequency prop trading company. They can say it is a tech company and think that having office perks is what makes a tech company but it is not one. I worked in a tech company and things aren’t perfect but at least the work was more interesting and possibly of use. This high frequency trading is pointless. It is 1000 people and has been around for 20 years so it is not a start up and has the bureaucracy and politics of any big company. Jump will claim it is without politics and everything is flat and open and it is not the case either. Saying that the company is a tech company and has no politics does not make it true.

3.0
Sep 1, 2016

Good company but....

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Catered lunch every Friday, snacks and beverages galore, plenty of PTO, great benefits

Cons

Performance isn't always judged by how well you do your job.

5.0
Sep 28, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Prior to Jump, I spent time at various finance/tech companies in roles ranging from backend software engineer to portfolio management to trading quant research. The culture at Jump is by far the best, and if the circumstances are right (more on this below), I will return without hesitation. The company is extremely aggressive and demanding when it comes to business and growth, while staying patient and accommodating when it comes to nurturing people and talent. There are almost no places I can think of where you will learn as much in as short of a period time, with as much of a ramp-up time as you need to learn the ropes, while having almost unlimited financial and career upside to boot. I have personally seen one of the founders bend over backwards to accommodate an employee who had trouble fitting in with existing trading teams by naming that employee head of a new trading team; I have seen a team fail and reinvent itself multiple times while maintaining unwavering support from management to keep investing in people and technology; and I have seen people's careers absolutely skyrocket in just a few years after graduation from the amount of impact they are able to have from day one. This is a place where senior leadership wants you to succeed and grow the pie, and very importantly, where you will be recognized and rewarded for doing so.

Cons

I ultimately decided to leave because I wanted to take a chance and start my own company. While Jump can give you a point very far on the risk/reward curve, definitely far enough for most people, it can't quite provide the two-hackers-in-a-garage ride-or-die sort of deal that I (probably foolishly) wanted as a next step. Who knows--maybe I'll look back as a multi-billionaire and think that leaving was the best choice I could have made for myself. More likely, I'll come back as an older and wiser (and greyer) scholar of the markets, and with that entrepreneurial itch scratched, I'll ask for another chance.

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