PEAK6 reviews

Glassdoor is quite accurate; particularly the statements on listening to and valuing employees. While the perks mentioned above are nice, where the rubber meets the road is how people are valued, and the subtext is quite clear: they are contractors in a cost-center, and management really cares about reducing cost above all else. This manifests in a few ways that hurt innovation and employee initiative, namely an over-focus on Jira ticket management, and only top-down waterfall-designed projects get the green light. There's a real chance that you won't have any real input on the projects until it's time to implement them ticket by ticket... unless you get shuttled to a project elsewhere in the firm (or wider family of non-finance Peak6-owned firms) that needs a better ticket-closing rate. If you're after a place to be creative, innovate, and work on interesting things, consider working elsewhere.

1) Low pay. For both people on the technology and trading side of things. They say that they compete with Google and Facebook for talent, but lets not kid ourselves, there's just no comparison. Even though prop shops generally pay a higher compensation, they grossly underpay their engineers. Almost all other prop shops pay SIGNIFICANTLY higher compensations. Don't think of people as a cost but as an investment! 2) No work life balance.