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Wall Street Systems

Acquired by ION Group

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NY office like fiefdoms, travel cut back - Business Analyst Wall Street Systems Employee Review

2.0
24 June 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Opportunity to learn system/finance, they did do raises this year. If supervisor likes you, you may get opportunities (be sure to suck up, come in at 8:30 and don't leave before 5:30, execs do cubicle checks, seriously). May be decent opportunity in this economy.

Cons

New owners cut back on travel. Made employees sign draconian non-competition agreement, where you must give 2 to 3 months notice before leaving - they don't do severance payments. Teams/depts really vary - one team could have all 20/30 somethings, friendly, another team 50 something old-timers who worked together for years, not so friendly. They expanded by buying companies, different cultures don't mesh, weird disjointed feeling between departments. Some very deep cynicism about product. Lots of people have left in past 6 months.

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5.0
13 Dec 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Focused and successful business that provided opportunity to those who were prepared to take it.

Cons

Not terribly structured. The pace of change was sometimes uncomfortable.

1.0
20 Apr 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

PLENTY UNTIL ION TOOK OVER, hard work used to be rewarded but not anymore. Raises were good until ION took over, which are managed by ruthless individuals.

Cons

Working for managers who don’t care at all about the work people put in. The COO (Miguel Ceballos) and the CEO (Andrea Pignataro) are cut throat managers who just lay people off on a yearly basis. They don’t care about the people who have tremendous knowledge of the product and lay off people on an annual basis. It’s the worst place to work for. Everyone is watching their back waiting to get laid off - horrible work environment, always have to watch your back for that tap on your shoulder from HR. These people want to work you 60/hours a week but will lay you off if you make more than 90k/yr. They are ruthless and careless. Last round of people who got laid off were notified via email on the evening of NEW YEARS EVE 2017!!! Who does that!? RUTHLESS!!!

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