Not the best but not the worst - Software Engineer TradeStation Employee Review

2.0
Sep 23, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- The people are very nice - You can get a second job and they won’t notice - Remote work - Unlimited PTO (I was able to take a vacation once a month) - No technical interview since I was a diversity hire - A good filler on your resume if you want to work at a more prestigious company and need to get some experience in - Didnt see any of the racism that people mentioned on the other reviews

Cons

- Terrible management - Company either is too greedy and keeps all profits to itself or doesn’t make enough money, which is not what I’ve been told - so that must mean the company is greedy since the pay is low - Paying engineers way below average - Favoritism - Fired maybe half of their staff in one day, and this is has happened multiple times in the history of the company - so NO guarantee that you will have a job the next day (it happened on a Wednesday with no warning- I was not affected) - As a engineer you have to do everything: make tickets, be the product owner (because bad PO), be the tech lead (there’s no tech lead), be the scrum master, and demo to stakeholders - that’s right - developers demo to stakeholders. - No attention to the team, or the product - no one cares if the product is bad - and they definitely don’t care about the app reviews - Incompetent coworkers - probably due to lack of management - No tech lead - If you work “hard” no one notices or cares, no reward/ motivation/inspiration - Moving people onto different teams very often - You will probably have to work during lunch or overtime - Sometimes late night meetings depending on the team you’re on around 7pm - No overall direction/goal - Hiring/Firing mess - Terrible code and architecture to work with, something that should take a day will take a week - and yes you will be banging your head on your keyboard quite often - No care for technical debt/health - They are always bragging about crypto but they actually don’t really do much in the crypto space - What is the crypto team even doing??? There is no goal for economic empowerment - just the whole company trying to stay afloat - Company does not care about you

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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
Apr 24, 2026
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Pros

-Pay for entry level role -ability to be fully licensed -managers are great-two 15 min breaks

Cons

-5 days in office -8 to 5 work shifts with unpaid lunch -call center -talking to old people all day that cant navigate anything -Extremely busy at times -You will be talking ALL. DAY.

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