Not for everyone - Execution Trader Airain Employee Review

2.0
Aug 17, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

-Good hours/work life balance -Good benefits & compensation -Safe island, nice beaches in summer etc -Ok tavel opportunity to Connecticut office & GR -Work with smart people at GR -Autonomy/Accountability -Good in-house technology

Cons

-Management Structure -Very limited career advancement -harsh winters with not much to do -Housing situation -Shift work (early starts & night shifts) -Firms gossip culture -Niche skills developed/repetitive work -Small island with homogenous demographic -Expensive to leave & no international flights

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1.0
Feb 2, 2024
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

A well tutored caveman can do the job

Cons

Middle Managers in CT are all on H1B. The rest of the CT employees are a revolving door (unless you tow the company line perfectly), do a deep google search to see the average tenure is under 2 years. They just fired 100 or so devs/quants in London G-Research because they had too much knowledge of the old system and didn't want them to have new human capital of the new system. Do the math, they don't want to pay people so they keep people that they have complete power over or who stay docile and compliant. The sole owner of both companies wants to funnel as much money to himself as possible through these schemes and is doing it through various methods including the ones exposed above.

1.0
Jul 21, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Majority of staff are nice to work with. Beach days are fantastic.

Cons

Very high turn over A large number of staff have either left or in the status of leaving this year due to lack of power and direction in senior management Expect to receive minimal benefits, no pension, no housing allowance (which had previously been verbally agreed to all members of staff before joining) and potentially no bonus and lack lustre pay rises Previously suggestions have been made by members of staff on how to improve which all got completely ignored.

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