Two Sigma reviews

3.9

82% would recommend to a friend

(394 total reviews)
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Carter Lyons and Scott Hoffman

46% approve of CEO

70% positive business outlook

Two Sigma has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 394 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Two Sigma 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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394 reviews
5.0
Aug 29, 2019
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Pros

Collaborative culture with extremely intelligent employees. People are nice, smart, and very driven. The problems are technically challenging, and there are growth opportunities spread throughout the firm. Internal mobility is accepted, and it's possible to have a long career here while working on several different teams/products.

Cons

The company is growing rapidly and is starting to experience big-company problems. Politics can occasionally impact productivity, especially with regards to titles and team size.

4.0
Aug 15, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

The broad context here is I'm extremely happy with my job at two sigma. I've been here for 1.5 years and in that time, I've learned and grown more than I would have thought possible. - Almost everyone I've worked with in my corner of the Engineering world has been very kind, creative, and incredibly driven. - Since team size is small relative to the number of products, impact-per-person can be extremely significant. It's possible to be a star, even as a new employee. - Compensation is head-and-shoulders above similarly tenured roles in the rest of the industry. - Casual, geeky, tech-focused culture relative to other firms in this sector. - In-office extra-curriculars (giving talks, attending internal classes, organizing volunteering events) are readily available and encouraged by management - A strong lean towards the DIY in engineering projects means you'll probably learn a lot about parts of the software development process you might not elsewhere. - A gold star on your resume. TS is a heavy hitter as far as perceived engineering clout.

Cons

On the flip side, growth can sometimes be painful. - It somehow always seems like there's 20% more work to do than the amount of time there is to do it. Small teams with out-sized responsibilities in combination with the type of passionate/ambitious personality that TS seems to attract can produce an environment of intense self-imposed stress. - That same strong DIY lean? Means a lot of projects get built from 0 to 1 by one or two people, and fail to make the leap from 1 to 2 as it's realized they're a lot more difficult to make stable and production-ready than it was to produce an MVP. - As an adolescent company, TS is beginning to hit some phase changes with things like maintenance of aging software, management of organizational structure, and knowledge sharing. - Less hierarchical than many companies in its sector, but you can still feel like you're at the whims of a teetering stack of managerial decisions at times. It's often hard for bad news to propagate up the stack since people will soften what they say to higher-ups. This can lead to directional decisions being made without knowledge of the situation on the ground. - Front-end development is largely unsupported by the build/test infrastructure and varies wildly from team-to-team as each one learns separately to deal with the quirks.

5.0
Aug 15, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Very transparent and this company opens a zillion ways to learn new stuffs to help personal growth . this company has great benefits and there is always food in the pantry no dress code

Cons

It moves too fast at times in terms of inheriting technology so, we jump /upgrade sooner than really required. No work from home options

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