Volant Trading Reviews

3.0

46% would recommend to a friend

(64 total reviews)

Brian Donnelly

44% approve of CEO

40% positive business outlook

Volant Trading has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 64 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Volant Trading employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Finance industry (3.7 stars).

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64 reviews
1.0
3 Sept 2018

clueless management and dysfunctional organization

Anonymous employee
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Pros

kind of new office space

Cons

Strong sense of paranoia and major power fights across the company. Many senior people have quit this year and nobody really knows why and it is not allowed to be talked about. General distrust of the CEO and management (despite what the company planted reviews say). Too many secret meetings leads to suspicion about what people are plotting. They tell us not to write on Glassdoor and that things are going to be better but things have gotten worse and nothing changes. Town hall meetings are demotivating and full of BS with nothing of substance or direction. Software developers are basically sending most of their time doing support and fixing things. The number of crashes and outages is frightening. Yet there is no changes and the same people are making the same bad decisions. Hard to use as a stepping stone since the reputation of the company is not very good in the industry. I wish I had asked around more before I started. I just don't see this as a good path to learn anything or make good money. People I know at other places seem to be learning more and making more.

1.0
27 Mar 2013

Toxic upper management

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Sadly, none at this point. It once held possibilities...no longer.

Cons

At the start, a high-potential start-up company. Now? Avoid at all cost; very unstable management (emotionally) that creates a toxic envirnment.

1.0
18 Apr 2019

bad management and bad culture

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The hours aren't too long.

Cons

Joining Volant was a terrible career move for me. It was nothing like I expected and as previously mentioned by someone a toxic culture. There is constant infighting, incompetent management, old and fragile technology, and a revolving door of people leaving. I expected to learn, grow and be exposed to "cutting edge" technology. It is nothing like this. Recently there was a mass layoff which speaks to how things are going. It is hard to see how volant can compete with all the firms that have better management, technology and plan.

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