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.

Simply put, Peak6 is the absolute worst job decision a new graduate can make coming out of collage. They don't offer anything close to a career path, and in most cases they simply throw their new hires into high stress roles with little training and low pay, asking them to work extremely long hours with no real work/life balance. Employees are micromanaged as if they were children who can't think at all on their own, and they are given the most mindless tasks to do until they end up leaving the company, which almost all new employees do once they realize how terrible their prospects for advancing here are. We also run internship programs, which on the surface seem great but what our leadership conveniently forgets to tell people is that almost no one gets hired from the internship program and because of HR regulations we don't even provide references to those that participate in the internship program and don't get hired. Even better, the actual employees like me have to sit here and watch the interns get fawned over while we - the real employees - are bacially ignored and treated as second class citizens. My advice to new grads and students considering joining this company is to please please please look elsewhere so you don't end up making the same mistake that I and most other people working here made. You have good degrees from great schools, go look for jobs at real companies that actually know how to develop their talent and provide career pathing and fair pay.