Poor place to do any technical work (quant/development/data science) - Support Point72 Employee Review

1.0
26 July 2019
Recommend
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Pros

- Decent brand name - Ability to learn a lot

Cons

- Highly political in terms of growth - Pay is on the lower end for industry standard - Little career development opportunities to move into any kind of market-facing role / take responsibility in investment decisions when working on a silo team doing tech work - Culture of research analysts being in charge even on the same investment team as other data scientists / software engineers

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5.0
30 June 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Just joined recently. A ton of resources at the firm, its been good so far

Cons

I came from a competitor firm. Not actually a con to me but I noticed worse employee perks e.g. no dinner provided on Uber etc

5.0
27 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Excellect company culture, beautiful offices, very good compensation and benefits, amazing opportunities for professional development

Cons

Very fast paced and innovative with high expectations, if you aren't a fast learner and highly adaptive you won't last here. It's a hedge fund so be prepared for some serious egos, but generally speaking the people are quite nice. They don't have a CFO, so it sometimes feels like central coordination/strategy is lacking to the back office finance function.

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