Pros
Relaxed office environment in London. London based staff are nice.
Cons
ActivTrades has a disgusting culture. I heard many employees say that the CEO & founder loves money more than his own family. I had been employed at ActivTrades for 18 months, before getting sacked (They sacked the whole team in the UK) out of the blue due to "Poor performance" despite having had a glowingly positive appraisal just a month or two before, and being reassured by my manager that I was doing fantastically well and he had "No red flags". The true nature of the sacking was so the company could avoid paying the team any redundancy. We were then replaced with staff on lower wages in Bulgaria. The longer i remained with the company, the more ashamed I felt to be part of that predatory organisation. The whole culture is incredibly toxic, the company don't hedge any client trades which fosters a culture of "us against the client". This leads to some very suspicious decision making that I would describe as borderline illegal, when it comes to screwing clients over. I regularly saw clients getting their profits deleted, and while I can't be 100% certain that it was unfair to the clients, I have many suspicions of wrongdoing. I found out after leaving that the company illegally records video and audio in the office, so the CEO can keep tabs on the workers. This leads to a real lack of privacy in the office. I also know for a fact that ActivTrades pay marketing companies in Bulgaria/Romania to do countless fake reviews on sites like Glassdoor & Trustpilot. If you have a read through these reviews, you'll notice they are all written in the same poor English. You can see that there are no reviews for ages, and then a consistent stream of 5* reviews in a very short space of time. I counted around 50-60 reviews for the "London" office, despite the office only containing around 15 people. One review even talks about how great the office is in Thomas Moore Square, an office which ActivTrades left over two years ago..