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      Mostly OK - Trader Optiver Employee Review

      2.0
      Jan 29, 2020
      Trader
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Money is good vs most jobs. Interesting problems to work on.

      Cons

      Work life balance is not good, if that's important to you try IMC instead. Every 6 months you have to argue/defend why you deserve to be paid. The verdict can be poor performance even if you are making the company record amounts of money. If pay is important to you probably better to go to Citadel. Optiver makes a lot of money but 2/3 of it goes to shareholders. After that most goes to managers, and the company has been progressively top heavy recently.

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      5.0
      Feb 24, 2026
      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      worked on a lot of different areas of the trading stack; often close with researchers learned about technical components for data driven trading saw my impact day to day

      Cons

      constant office renovations were a bit distracting, but was told it should be done in 2026

      3.0
      May 21, 2026
      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Good compensation, collaborative environment. Company also seems to aim to be at forefront of new tech such as AI

      Cons

      When HR mgmt is on record stating things like the company shouldn’t hire females anymore, it really makes you wonder how they make decisions on who should fill management positions

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