Mostly maintenance work and testing. Good work life balance. - C++ Software Engineer Flow Traders Employee Review

1.0
8 Jan 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Good work life balance - Free food/drinks in the office

Cons

- Work quality depends highly on the team you're in. In some teams, you're only given maintenance work and testing, rather than any big projects in C++. - Too much micro-management & Bureaucracy. And it keeps on increasing day by day with bad decisions from management. - Software engineers are treated as second class citizens. You don't get a say in lot of decisions that only impacts you. - Terrible focus on developer productivity. Because of lot of bureaucracy and micro-management, your productivity is quite low. - Priority keeps on changing constantly. So, you waste almost half the time just doing context switching instead of actual dev work. - Unless you're extremely lucky, Learning curve becomes stagnant within 1.5 years.

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1.0
29 Jan 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Very small company with flat hierarchy so you can do your own projects

Cons

Very non-systematic trading shop; most traders have little quantitative experience out of fast mental math, so it always underperforms competitors leading to extremely low salaries resulting in only poor quality traders and people stuck on visas reaching seniority

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