It used to be great. Now it's an IT shop. - Anonymous employee swissQuant Employee Review
3.0
9 Dec 2017
Anonymous employee
Former employee, more than 1 year
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
The team. Very active, very close relationships. Sometimes interesting topics.
Cons
The code quality is bad. The management is bad. It takes weeks and months to understand large projects and you're happy if some things don't randomly break. No focus, randomly generating income seems more important. Broken promises.
swissQuant Response
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Dear former swissQuant colleague
We are open for feedbacks and suggestions for improvements by our employees and former colleagues. I would be glad to have a in-depth conversation with you to share your experience within the company. If you are willing to have a chat, please contact me by phone +41 43 244 30 82 or email merkli@swissquant.com, best regards Melanie Merkli (Head HR and Talent Development)
You can get away with bad programming. Nobody will ever check your work. Free water. A twenty year old can climb the ladder very fast because all his superiors will quit within a year.
Cons
12 hour work days. Poor pay. Management treats workers line garbage, and tries to suck every ounce of productivity out of them until they burn out and quit. Turnover rate is close to 80% a year. The good reviews here are of questionable validity.
Falsification of Financial statements
Providers, contractors and employees do not get paid on time if at all
Products are not reliable and depend on unpaid data feed providers.