Do not recommend - Trader DRW Employee Review

Your experience at this company is very dependent on what team you’re on. Each manager has complete control of his team (yes HIS, female managers are non-existent on the trading side, female employees are few and far between). My manager was a bank trader from the 90s and he ran the team as such. Junior employees must be the first in and last out, regardless of if there was work to do. The appearance of being busy was rewarded more than actual impactful work. Bonus, where most of your compensation comes from as a trader, is entirely up to the whim of your manager with no transparency. Expect to be disappointed in your bonus conversation. Due to this there are lots of petty office politics and your peers will constantly try to one-up you while also talking behind your back to put you down. It seems like micromanagement is encouraged because it’s widespread. My mental health suffered greatly as a result of working here and I would not recommend it to anyone. I have nothing good to say about working here. The money was decent (not as good as it should have been given my performance) but it was not worth the trauma that was required to earn it.