Pros
Downtown location, free food, free beer once a month, office dogs, games room.
Cons
There have been a number of positive reviews posted after the onslaught of negative ones in November/December - most likely an attempt to bury or contradict honest feedback written by disappointed employees. From experience, any critical words are not the product of the overactive imaginations of disgruntled “underachievers”, or inexperienced drones who were thrown out, they should be taken as warnings to potential newcomers. No doubt that when Trader management were installed in the Convertus office last year they saw themselves as father figures arriving in to impart experience, knowledge, and professionalism to a start-up environment. Instead, they managed to stifle enthusiasm with condescension, and drive out ambitious employees with disrespect, excessive workload, lack of direction, or most commonly, all three combined. Counterintuitive to what you might expect in a move from a start-up to “mature” corporate entity, the level of professionalism has dropped. One individual in a senior management role has no problem making inappropriate personal comments about team members, sometimes even in common areas where he can be overheard by anyone who happens to be around. In another example of clumsy negligence of normal privacy standards, confidential information (like raises and salary adjustments) is fair game to a few non-HR employees who have access to Convertus' HR email address. It should go without saying that this is an unacceptable breach of trust for the entire office. This unpleasant but run-of-the-mill behavior probably contributes indirectly to the high staff turnover, but even on a purely work-related level, that so many people continue to trickle out of senior and supervisory roles should come as no surprise. They are tasked with far more daily work than anyone could possibly handle, while entitled leadership concerns itself with lofty goals of implementing OKR and Kanban frameworks. In theory there’s nothing wrong with that, except when the basic level of respect, support, and direction necessary to empower and motivate employees is non-existent in all but a few cases.