- Supportive management who listen.
- Performance is recognised.
- Minimal constraints in how you achieve PnL
- Some teams are able to move extremely quickly.
- Trust the CEO
- Relatively flexible working.
- Big rainy day fund hedging a volatile industry.
- You will have opportunities to do things here that no other firm will let you even touch.
Cons
- Work from home culture among certain teams has negatively affected the observability of some teams.
- Problems are often solved twice and priorities disconnected due to distance between teams.
- Compensation structure means that too much of the firm is disconnected from bottom line PnL negatively affecting work ethic.
- Company is bifurcated between a tech culture and a trading culture. While necessary the disconnect needs to be bridged.
- There are some really lazy people at B2C2 who end up blocking rather than facilitating.
- Shoestring budgets force you into interesting solutions.
- Extremely long work hours can get lonely when too many people are remote.