Extremely toxic culture. Performance is driven by negative consequence, not by positive reward. There is little to no work life balance for many of the roles within the org. You'll make decent money at your initial onboarding, but from there you will have to fight tooth and nail for any increases in compensation. Don't just read the Apex reviews. Go read the Peak6 reviews (the parent company) because so much of what Apex does is driven by the owners/parent company. There is a level of elitism, as leadership tries to cover it by saying that "Apex isn't for everyone"...and they're right. They want you to work hard but they also want you to work cheap. 70+ hour weeks are the norm for many employees, and while leadership will say they don't condone those hours, they will 100% push you to work all the time. It's gaslighting as you'll get treated like you're not a team player if you don't adopt the same insane hours that others keep. Leadership makes a massive salary, and have the compensation to afford resources that enables them to work crazy hours. But when you expect people making significantly less than $100K a year to make the same sacrifices, knowing they can't afford the resources you have to offset those sacrifices, it crosses over into toxic. They are so out of touch with the "regular" people that they have no idea what working those hours mean to those families. The org as a whole is seriously understaffed and there are not enough hours in the day to complete the work...so your options are to either cut into your "off" time to complete the work or get treated like you're not a team player. Yes, the owners are wildly successful. Yes, the organization is wildly successful. But financial success does not equal healthy and functional. There is a difference between doing a great job because you respect someone versus doing a great job out of fear and especially at the parent company, employees operate from fear. They (owners and leadership) talk about equality, and empowering women and minorities...and they've thrown money at initiatives but they don't practice it themselves. Look at the leadership turnover. Women at the c level come and go. The faces that stay constant are the owners and the white males. Go look at the leadership page for Apex Fintech Solutions. They know it's an issue but have taken zero meaningful action to correct it. They've tried to address it by hiring tons of brilliant, highly respected women for leadership positions through the years, but they don't stay long term because the culture is so incredibly toxic at all levels.
