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Poisonous Atmosphere - Anonymous employee Vela Trading Systems Employee Review

1.0
14 Sept 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The biggest pro are the colleagues.... and they hate the place as much as I do. Great bunch though. Young average age and good fun.

Cons

Management are the big problem and all the crap trickles down. Bad organisation and pandering to customers' demands leads to stress for all "lower down" workers. The New York office treats the people in the other offices like second-class people. They have an attitude of a large corporation even though they're a tiny fish which is embarrassing for all involved. The higher-ups are all just mouthpieces with no actual idea of how the company should be run effectively. They preach the whole year round that things are going great and they are making big money. They send out emails to the whole company every time they make a sale. Then, miraculously, when bonus/pay-rise time comes around, the company is on its knees.

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
10 Aug 2018
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Pros

-A pretty generous vacation policy -The hours are pretty flexible -Some cool technologies like Ember, Django and Scala.

Cons

-The CEO lies a TON. Small stuff. Big stuff. Anything to make her and the executive team look better. -My portion of the company was acquired about a year ago and the CEO promised that we'd maintain benefits like free lunch. A month later lunch was gone. -After months of awaiting long over due raises and bonuses, the CEO promised that raises would be back paid. Her solution? Don't give raises and it's not technically a lie. -They gave NY half day Fridays (the office that conveniently all C level employees worked out of) through the summer and all other offices $10 for lunch. -Tons of devs quit and they were never replaced. Others just had to pull more weight. -The CEO and her assistant wasted tons of money traveling the world while complaining about money when raises didn't happen. -After giving my resignation, no one from the company (outside of HR) even reached out to me to transfer 7+ years of knowledge.

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