Optiver Reviews

Pros

The money is good and glassdoor needs atleast 20 words and I still couldnt complete20.

Cons

Not many exit opportunities, discriminating between dutch and non dutch and firing rate is very high

Pros

Good culture around openness and sharing Free breakfast and lunch

Cons

Management are poorly trained and unable to handle extreme pressure from senior leadership. Managers favor brown-nosing over hard earned achievements. The 'feedback culture' is a false-positive, some use this constructively whereas others use this to belittle. Lots of politics Toxic culture

Pros

There are some really nice and smart people. Work can be interesting. Having barista on site is quite nice.

Cons

Shame those nice people are not in position to make change. Optiver used to be nice place to work. Then management and HR decided that people can more productive if they are told that everything they do can be better or done faster. Toxic culture of blame. People become withdrawn due to the excessive load and expectations. Some teams are worse than others. If someone decides a person should go, they will be bullied out of company using performance improvement program. If you are going through hiring, make sure to ask proper base salary since your bonus depends on rating and that is at mercy of management.