1 year max, then run like the godamn wind. Or Avoid like the plague all together. - Back Office GAIN Capital Employee Review

The management. Their only interest is saving face, and protecting themselves from their superiors. The departments are run like a popularity contest. Promotions are not given on a merit basis. They make you take some stupid tests to get a promotion. First promotion you receive is larger than the second promotion. How does that even make sense? Shouldn't promotions increase as you stay with a company? That's just part of the backwards logic this company has. Don't trust your managers, they will burn you. Monotonous work. Mounting pressures. High turn around rate, and responsibilities are often redistributed to everyone when someone leaves. Company thinks everyone is replaceable and when they can't replace someone their solution is to just redistribute the work to someone else, while not increasing the salary to match added responsibilities. Oh, and if you think this redistribution of responsibilities is temporary you are sorely mistaken. Skills don't transfer over in the professional Finance/Investment world. Most of the policies Gain Capital uses are archaic. They don't provide enough in-house training, and education. The longer you work here the more behind you are in building your career. Do yourself a favor and earn your chops, work a year, and run for the hills. You’ll learn a lot more in a month working for a bigger company than you will learn here in a whole year. Poor incentives and bonus structure. At first you think that oh jeans, awesome! Oh free bagels on Friday awesome! Oh free coffee! Even better. However, none of these things help repair a toxic corporate culture. Gain Capital can only change if the management is completely uprooted and there is extreme focus and emphasis on their corporate culture. Otherwise it’s just like any other FCM, only a matter of time before it gets swallowed up by another.