DRW reviews

4.3

88% would recommend to a friend

(328 total reviews)
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Donald R. Wilson, Jr.

97% approve of CEO

81% positive business outlook

DRW has an employee rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars, based on 328 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The DRW employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Financial Services industry (3.6 stars).

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328 reviews
3.0
Dec 21, 2021

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Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Lots of talented people and teams for you to work with potentially. Stable company with stable pay and great benefits. Mostly friendly trading firm with lots of activities and outings to participate in. Exposure to meaningful work, ideas, and initiatives.

Cons

Petty and vindictive HR. Company not suitable for work-life balance. Diversity here is largely superficial.

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DRW Response
4y
Thank you for your feedback. We're pleased to hear that you have had exposure to meaningful projects, although it is important to us that those projects still allow for good work/life balance. As for diversity, we'll have to disagree on how the firm approaches that topic. From our work with Code Platoon and Greenwood Project to the software engineering program we run independently, we take very seriously our commitment to create opportunities and open doors for talented candidates. Equally important, we want DRW to be a place where everyone feels welcomed and supported to do their best work once they're part of our team.
2.0
Oct 22, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The perks of the office are similar to those of tech companies with catered breakfast/lunch and events throughout the year.

Cons

CEO pressures employees in company wide meetings on how to vote, huge management issues across departments who don't listen to issues and promote loyal employees over good employees, can be an uncomfortable work environment for women.

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DRW Response
4y
Thank you for your feedback. Given my role at DRW, I thought it might be helpful if I responded here. In preparing for meetings, Don has always stressed to me that other than encouraging employees to go and vote, he had no interest in sharing his own political views. I’d welcome hearing more about what was said that made you feel you were being pressured to vote a certain way so we can avoid that going forward. I also encourage you to reach out to HR to talk about any instances in which you’ve felt high-performers haven’t been promoted. While we do very much value employees that have been at DRW for a long time (and we do have a lot of them!), we are very much a meritocracy. I am most concerned about your comment that at some point you felt uncomfortable as a woman at DRW. It's very important to our leadership team that we create an environment where all of our employees feel valued and comfortable, so I strongly encourage you to go talk to your manager, HR or one of DRW's partners so that we can swiftly address this issue.
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