Experienced Employees are Trash to them. - Anonymous employee AKUNA CAPITAL Employee Review

1.0
10 Oct 2020
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Certain teams are good to be in. Reasonable WFH policy. Still has some smart people around, despite growing number of resignations.

Cons

Senior management has serious issues. Does not value the mid-level employees, which do the bulk of the work, applies to all departments, Devs, Quant, Trading. They rather hire fresh juniors for higher compensation than keeping current employees happy, despite juniors being trained by current employees. CEO doesn't know what he's doing, fires 4 CTOs within 2 years, tried to become CTO himself despite having little understanding of the development side. Implements policies after reading a book, leading to bureaucratic clutter that does not solve underlying issues. Morale across almost all departments and teams very low. Next year's bonus will make or break this company, coming mass exodus of mid-levels if bonus expectations aren't met, especially after how trash the bonus this year was due to improper company management. Resignations already slowly happening across the Dev and Quant teams despite a banner year across trading firms. No base salary during non-compete mentioned below is true. Penny-pinching in the wrong places. Disregard a lot of the blatantly positive reviews below, many from HR and recruiting department, or recruiting asking people to post positive reviews. Large number of recent negative reviews from both current and former employees paint an accurate picture of where this company is at.

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Cons

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Cons

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