Company is too restrictive - Anonymous employee WorldQuant Employee Review

4.0
Apr 29, 2016
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Pros

The CEO tries to make rational decisions to maximize everyone's pay. He propose, get feedback, experiments, and rework on his ideas on leading the company. He tries to listen to everyone and is very smart. He hates bureaucracy and try to get people work through incentives. He always try many different kind of things/ideas to get everyone involved debating the idea..

Cons

The CEO tries to push the company to certain directions. It used to be the company's goal is to maximize pnl. now, we do a lot of useless stuffs - like publishing a book, flying people around the globe attending meetings, hiring management consultants. We have more administrator assistants then ever before. Nothing wrong with trying to become big, but the company imposes more and more restrictive rules on researchers and portfolio managers to achieve that. For example, research directors would group researchers into different groups and force researchers to work in certain areas. They had to meet monthly alpha submission quotas. and portfolio managers are required to make money only through maximizing certain utility functions and work only in certain areas.

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Cons

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Cons

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