Jump Trading Reviews
Updated 15 Jul 2019
Found 65 reviews
"Great environment, smart people, good benefits" (in 10 reviews)
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"Young work environment can contribute to pressure to work very long hours but then this is standard in this industry" (in 3 reviews)
- Helpful (12)
"Excellent place to be"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI worked at Jump Trading full-time for more than 8 years
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I found my time at Jump to be really, insanely valuable and would encourage anyone to join. It is an excellent place to be if you are motivated and want to work with really smart, dedicated people who are (mostly) not dicks. Without question this was the best place that I have worked, and I fear that it will remain so going forward. London office space is really nice. Lighting a bit of a problem, but workable. ...
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Friday lunches will fatten you up. Chicago office space is a bit of a bunker (but I think a well designed one if you are interested in getting things done). Some people are a bit egotistical; most are not. Given the overall high skill/ego ratio, and the low number of dicks, this is probably a pro. An individual's experience will be highly dependent on what group they join, particularly in the front office....
Show MoreJump Trading2016-01-28 - Helpful (9)
"It's not what you know it's who you know"
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RecommendsNeutral OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Jump Trading full-time
Pros
Friday lunches, travel, dynamic work environment
Cons
Very clicky and poor management is a common issue throughout all departments. End of year evaluations (provided by employees) should be taken seriously by senior management.
Advice to Management
Manager's should go on training courses.
Jump Trading2017-02-20 - Helpful (33)
"Worst work experience of my career."
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Pros
Some nice people. Free lunches on fridays lots of travel between offices business seems to be good growing company
Cons
A lot of clever people. .Unfortunately most not as clever as they think they are.. lots of diva types, intensely political and cliquey. very under resourced, hence very long hours and lots of weekend work..compensation doesn't reflect the effort..A lot of my colleagues agree of being heavily oversold role and bonuses at interview.
Advice to Management
Don't promote good technical people into management roles unless they're good at management.
Jump Trading2014-10-19 "Used to be a good place to work, but now there's too much politics"
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Neutral OutlookNo Opinion of CEOI worked at Jump Trading full-time
Pros
Decent work environment, if you can handle the whole open concept type of seating arrangements. Pay seems pretty good.
Cons
Too much politics. Either you're in the group of golden children or you're definitely not. Too many high-level people, yet not very good project management.
Advice to Management
Go back to the way things used to be several years ago.
Jump Trading2019-07-16"Fantastic Place"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Jump Trading full-time for more than 3 years
Pros
Pay cut ratio is fabulous.
Cons
Algo trading industry as a whole is saturating.
Advice to Management
Explore more asset classes.
Jump Trading2019-04-11- Helpful (2)
"Great place but needs improvement."
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Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookNo Opinion of CEOI worked at Jump Trading full-time for more than 10 years
Pros
Benefits are competitive, generous compensation structure.
Cons
Senior management has very little experience with running a firm like Jump. This means many people making decisions for the organization who don't understand the downstream effects.
Advice to Management
Focus on the long-term projects and big picture.
Jump Trading2019-04-05 - Helpful (8)
"Great company that values employees"
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RecommendsApproves of CEOI have been working at Jump Trading full-time for less than a year
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To preface this, I have only been working here for a short while, but the message I experience and receive over and over again is that Jump seriously cares about making their employees happy. For anonymity I won't share my job title, but I work in one of the technology teams. First of all, the benefits for this company are absolutely INSANE. Sign-on bonus is more than enough to cover first few months of rent, plus furniture,...
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The work has almost no meaning besides "make money for the company." There is no broader sense that the work you do benefits society in general. I came from a previous employer that did projects that had measurable impacts on society, but Jump isn't really like that. The company's entire goal is to make money off the stock market. Not very interesting if you ask me, but hey, that's life. Also not much room for growth....
Show MoreJump Trading2019-02-19 "Algorithmic Trader"
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I have been working at Jump Trading full-time
Pros
Great place to work in
Cons
Nothing to complain about at all
Jump Trading2019-02-27- Helpful (5)
"Algorithmic Trader"
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I worked at Jump Trading full-time
Pros
Great ppl to work with. Interesting work to do
Cons
Not so good working environment. Also compensation completely determined by you boss, and it depends on how much he likes you. There's not really much metric to show your performance.
Jump Trading2018-11-24 - Helpful (3)
"Great potential -but growth changed culture"
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Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookNo Opinion of CEOI worked at Jump Trading full-time for more than 5 years
Pros
Smart people - state of the art tech - all resources available to be successful
Cons
more politics than you would expect for such a small firm. Firm wants people to be collaborative but the structure and compensation model destroys team based approach over time.
Jump Trading2018-11-13