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Chopper Trading

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Not the place for me - Trader Chopper Trading Employee Review

1.0
18 Jan 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

If you are a slacker but good at sucking up and pretending you do stuff, you will do well here for a while. Tip: Don't get on the wrong side of senior management if you join.

Cons

Compensation is low and getting lower, people not very hard working and just jokes all day, what you hear about company culture isn't true, lots of company politics. No training program and no one cares about you, you pretty much have to learn on your own and you are just a slave helping the CEO make cash. Groups compete with each other within the company and pays fees to the exchange even though you are trading within the company. Assistant traders will get blamed for everything if something goes wrong.

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5.0
21 Jul 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Room to grow, collaborative, inclusive

Cons

long hours,,, long hours! overnights required

5.0
6 Jul 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The owner of the company was extremely loyal to his employees. The company had the feel of a small family-run business. Chopper had a significant presence in the several markets prior to its acquisition by DRW. Chopper was in some trades that required a tremendous investment in infrastructure that a small company was not able to handle. However, the caliber to the traders, software developers, and network engineers was top notch. The interview process was extensive and the bar was set high.

Cons

They were a little over-aggressive with security policies. The development environment was air-gapped from the internet, which made some types of work difficult. This probably also led to less open-source adoption and incorporation of best practices from the industry. There were certain internal, auxiliary projects where it would have been better to allocate resource differently.

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