Declining Culture - Applications Engineer Optiver Employee Review

The reviews are often a surprise. Team Leads are determining the scores together with their peers, top down. The story leading to the score is compiled after the score is determined. Lot's of competition. Your score is relative to the others, so a good score now, can be a not so good score next year. Because of the relative high pay, employees will tolerate quite much. My Team Lead got a new manager and within a few months my core went from an above average to a below average. Lot's of politics. Be sure you are 'friends' with the right people and you will be fine.