The company proudly displays DE&I posters and champions buzzwords about inclusion, but in practice, these values are performative at best. The trading floor remains overwhelmingly male-dominated, with women severely underrepresented in upper leadership—if present at all. The culture often feels more like a fraternity locker room than a professional corporate environment, and the conversations you'll hear on the floor will reflect this. This may seem like just a normal job, but you'll come to learn it is not.
You’ll frequently hear phrases like “the right fit” tossed around in meetings and seminars. On the surface, it sounds harmless—but it's coded language, used to subtly signal who belongs and who doesn’t. Translation: if you don't fit the traditional macho legacy of oil & gas furniture employees, or challenge the status quo to ANYONE - you are unlikely to thrive. There is an unusually high rate of burnouts at T&S, particularly among women employees, and this is also ignored by leadership. The amount of burned out people has to be in the dozens and this is terrible for morale, because everyone knows WHY but no one dares talk about it.
Traders—nearly all men—operate in a high-pressure, all-consuming environment where working until 8pmi is normal and you’re expected to adopt that same mindset whether it's explicitly explained to you or not.
Renewables? Once considered a growth area, they’ve been deprioritized. Constant reorganizations signal instability, and any meaningful talk about sustainability is undermined by the relentless focus on profits. In reality, this is a casino cosplaying as a corporation, ever so playing the part of a future-forward company while clinging to a very outdated playbook.
