PEAK6 is run by a means girls-esque clique of close friends who are mostly white men and women who ostracize diverse backgrounds and blatantly prioritize favorites. IT teams are very disorganized and poorly funded and supported. Finance teams lack real strong talent and do whatever they want contrary to accounting principles. HR only protects the owners and is very much in bed with bad managers. Workday rollout was chaotic because no one knew what they were doing and didn’t work well together. There’s a culture of form over substance, where form is overwhelmingly rewarded at the expense of good performers. Fun and challenging work is hoarded for favorites who make mistakes and are excused, but non-favorites somehow get blamed for company performance. The owners either don’t have a clue how toxic their own firm is or don’t care, either way they subscribe to outdated methods of work from the 1980s/90s and want people to sit straight at their desks w/o getting up 4-5 days a week in an office they purposely make cold to “make you work harder”. Compensation is also disproportionate depending who you ask, and headcount is kept far too secret for that purpose in the name of “confidentiality and protecting employees”.
