Is Optiver a good company to work for?

Optiver has an overall rating of 3.7 out of 5, based on over 822 reviews left anonymously by employees. This rating has increased by 2% over the last 12 months. 60% of employees would recommend working at Optiver to a friend and 58% have a positive outlook for the business. The best reviews about Optiver have been left by employees working as Quantitative Trader , Software Engineer and Trader .

Does Optiver pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Optiver employees rate their compensation and benefits as 4.2 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Optiver. This rating has decreased by 2% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Optiver?

60% of Optiver employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Optiver 3.2 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.3 for culture and values and 3.7 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Optiver?

Trader (98) , Software Engineer (67) , Quantitative Trader (28) , Software Developer (23) , Software Engineer(Internship) (18) , Junior Trader (17) , Trading Intern (14) , Quantitative Researcher (13) , Quantitative Trading Intern (13) , Intern (10) , Derivatives Trader (9) , Quant Trader Intern (9) , Quantitative Analyst (9) , Engineer (7) , Quant Trading Intern (7)

What are the pros of working at Optiver according to real employee reviews?

"workers and good pay" ((in 57 reviews)); "Smart colleagues who are very hardworking" ((in 42 reviews)); "Good benefits but all come with sacrifices" ((in 40 reviews)); "Good salary and other beneficts" ((in 28 reviews)); "Good work life balance with 25 vacations a year" ((in 23 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Optiver according to real employee reviews?

"Long hours and quite stressful" ((in 25 reviews)); "Experience entirely dependent on your team and direct manager" ((in 18 reviews)); "Lack of diversity" ((in 9 reviews)); "The best idea does not win here, office politics does." ((in 6 reviews)); "throat and work culture can be challenging." ((in 5 reviews))

What are employees saying about Optiver layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about Optiver layoffs and their outlook for job security at Optiver in 2026.

What are the top reviewed Optiver locations?

Chicago , Austin , New York , Belgium , Omaha , Seattle , Bangor , Washington , Netherlands

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3.7

60% would recommend to a friend

(572 total reviews)

58% positive business outlook

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4.2

Compensation and benefits

3.7

Career opportunities

3.3

Culture & values

3.2

Work/Life balance

3.1

Senior management

3.0

Diversity & inclusion

Optiver has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 572 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Optiver 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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572 reviews

1.0

Dec 21, 2017

Used to be great, now a terrible place to work as a developer

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Pros

Free lunches that usually taste good. Probably still a great place to work as a trader. Potentially a good stepping stone to other HFTs.

Cons

Used to be great, but then the old management was replaced by bean counters that don't value technology. To cut IT costs, instead of honest redundancies, they gave artificially low performance reviews to developers en masse to force people out. An awful place to work as a developer now because it's really hard to get recognition or promotion. Used to be BRW's Number 1 Place To Work in Australia (2013), now not even in the top 50.

3.0

Dec 20, 2017

Disappointment

Anonymous employee

Recommend

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Pros

Catered lunch, generous leave allowance. Decent work life balance

Cons

Politics and meetings began to dominate work. Management were slowly becoming out of touch with the core trading business. Shameless tactics used to denigrate employees to encourage them to leave.

3.0

Dec 14, 2017

Great until the big culling

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Top talent, brilliant people Low politics, lots of open frank discussion Great benefits, food, massages

Cons

Opaque management style Lost a lot of senior talent due to big cost cutting Aggressive cost cutting for the next few years

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