Chicago Trading Company reviews

- This firm is not one of the top tier in terms of ability to make money - Firm performance is less than ideal, affecting bonus - Compensation is average, unstable bonus, affecting morale - some competent people have left due to compensation issues - quite high turnover contrary to what others think - finance firms hierarchy is very flat, you can be stuck at senior engineer for 10 years, not much career progression - lots of legacy systems that don’t make sense and needs to be rebuilt due to past mistakes made by people who already left (tons of resources wasted supporting these systems) - firm unable to attract talents due to average comp, thus unable to move forward quickly / strongly firm’s comp cannot match Big Tech

It’s no surprise that the technology stack fell behind the competition. Upper management insisted that risk management and traders were the bread and butter and that technical advantages were not crucial. Well, they were wrong and then decided to let go many technical staff as if they were the problem.