If your ideal place of work is a money factory driven by fear, loathing, a palpable sense of “them and us” whilst being overseen by apathetic, incompetent middle management, then Bluecrest is the place for you.
Original thought and ideas that could significantly benefit the firm are suppressed or disregarded leaving a fertile ground for mediocrity and complacency. As a result, high turnover of the most dedicated and brightest minds continues apace, with both 2017 and 2018 seeing a brain drain of the very people the firm should be looking to hire and retain. Couple this with the annual threat of the "November Process", a truly indiscriminate and farcically administered staff redundancy round, you have an incredibly toxic working environment ripped from the pages of Orwell himself.
The result of this means that technology is woefully inadequate and is developed at a pace that beggars belief for a firm this size. Again, this is compounded by mis- and micro-management.
Finally, the fund rakes in 50% annual returns, however, total compensation packages for even outperforming “Support” staff, those who actually want to and do make a difference, do not even match the rate of inflation.
