Pros
- 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.