tosco - i *should* have left much earlier than i did. what made me leave? all of the following:
- having to check on available shorts on a daily basis...not terrible, but giving them in at 8 in the moring and sometimes not finding out til 945 am was.
- crashing of their trading platforms.
- technical staff that didn't know what a traceroute was, and kept insisting the problem was with my "ISP". (i've done sysadmin work in my pre-trading life).
- staff members that promised they'd get back to me, and didn't - repeatedly.
- a sense that the company was losing people fast; i was a sysadmin, and watched what happened when bridge lost people. all the signs were there, and i didn't want to lose my trading life while the company was in freefall.
- oh, the final thing was moving from an RT platform to their in-house platform, which was ugh!
there were a few good people there, but they were dramatically overworked / understaffed.
since then, there's lots of 'worse' news on the YHOO message boards, which seems to check out. i talked with a partner of theirs recently, who knows of the numerous problems at the company and rolled his eyes when i said i used to be there.
they offered me a cheap rate to come back to them. i refused.