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Integral Development

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Cutting edge financial technology company with big aspirations. Well positioned in the the 5+ trillion volume FX market - Project Management Integral Development Employee Review

4.0
Aug 6, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Company offfers stellar benefits (except for 401K matching, ironic deficiency as in all other aspects of comp, it competes very well with other tech companies in SV ). Projects are challenging, but stimulating. Led by exceptionally smart individuals, some are very respected in the Wall Street Technology field and have established themselves as pillars of that industry.

Cons

Long hours and you are always being challenged to retool yourselves Big issue is that even after 20+ years in business, the company is acting as though it is still in a start-up mode. Firm priorities shifts as often and quickly at Integral as the wind direction in the San Francisco Bay. Unfortunately, the downturn in foreign currency trading volatility and volume recently have led the management to side more with the banks and brokers that may not have the best intentions for the overall well being of the foreign currency market and its investors. Company grew significantly with a strong backwind driving its course until last year, but frequent tacking to change its course have diminished its forward inertia recently.

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5.0
Apr 21, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Promotes career development, provides competitive benefits, fun environment, open culture, great parties!

Cons

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2.0
Jul 12, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

1. Some of the engineers ( mostly junior to mid level) are very talented with prior experience in big investment banks, so you can learn a lot from them. 2. Free food, snacks and drinks. 3. Moderate work life balance - depends mostly on the team. 4. For good engineers in India, they are easiest way to get the H1B. As soon as you come here, start preparing and switch.

Cons

Ambush firing are more common than features addition to the products. There is a policy of total non-disclosure, so its very difficult to figure out the road-map of the products or to gauge the performance of the company. Nobody clearly knows whether the company is doing good or bad. The main product was developed 7 years back and currently the major work is to fix the bugs and maintain that crappy codebase. The senior people, barring one or two, are spineless people somehow holding their jobs. Being in such an important business field, I see no seriousness in the attitude of product managers. Most of the bugs are reported by users in production even though there is full QA cycle to test the products. I think I just depreciated my career and personal life by joining this unethical, directionless and pathetic company.

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