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Vela Trading Systems

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Horrible Company - Anonymous employee Vela Trading Systems Employee Review

1.0
Apr 24, 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

As much as I try to rack my brains to come up with one, I can not name one decent thing about this company.

Cons

This is an egotistical environment and it's their way or the highway. The concept of ethics does NOT exist. It is beyond me why any legit company would hire this company for any kind of work. I certainly believe that they should be reported since they do not follow labor laws and threaten to fire for the smallest reasons (like not enough sugar if coffee). Be ready to be at constant beck and call and forget your personal life if you managed to build one while working here. Arm twisting and threatening fall right into their comfort zone. When you talk career progression, get ready to get fired. I would never recommend that you work here if you are considering a career. McDonalds will probably offer better career options.

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Cons

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Pros

-A pretty generous vacation policy -The hours are pretty flexible -Some cool technologies like Ember, Django and Scala.

Cons

-The CEO lies a TON. Small stuff. Big stuff. Anything to make her and the executive team look better. -My portion of the company was acquired about a year ago and the CEO promised that we'd maintain benefits like free lunch. A month later lunch was gone. -After months of awaiting long over due raises and bonuses, the CEO promised that raises would be back paid. Her solution? Don't give raises and it's not technically a lie. -They gave NY half day Fridays (the office that conveniently all C level employees worked out of) through the summer and all other offices $10 for lunch. -Tons of devs quit and they were never replaced. Others just had to pull more weight. -The CEO and her assistant wasted tons of money traveling the world while complaining about money when raises didn't happen. -After giving my resignation, no one from the company (outside of HR) even reached out to me to transfer 7+ years of knowledge.

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