Management could not be any less competent - Senior S/W Engineer TradeStation Employee Review

1.0
18 May 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Nice facility, free breakfast on Friday (although it reminded less of a nice breakfast and more of an army slop line. Nothing was very appetizing)

Cons

Management -- all of management, from the CEO (who was recently forced to retire due to his extreme ineptitude) down to the lowest project manager -- are so intolerably incompetent that often times I would wonder if I was being filmed by ashton kutcher. The codebase has evolved organically with absolutely no thought put in to how to actually design robust software. Basic software design patterns are completely unknown to the rank and file. Their technical debt is enormous, their software is not extensible at all, and their parent company -- Monex -- is just now realizing that they bought this company for nothing as TradeStation's software is so brittle that it cannot be tailored Japan's market.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
24 Apr 2026
Recommend
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Pros

-Pay for entry level role -ability to be fully licensed -managers are great-two 15 min breaks

Cons

-5 days in office -8 to 5 work shifts with unpaid lunch -call center -talking to old people all day that cant navigate anything -Extremely busy at times -You will be talking ALL. DAY.

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