Tempted by the $$$ but don’t want to miss them growing up. Is it really that bad?
Was reading a FT piece on JS and it triggered my autism. What’s the significance of the three rings in JS logo and gaps within them? And why those positions for gaps? Also, why does the JS tech blog logo have only two rings and gaps? #finance
#finance #referral #usbank
All the finance related things I’ve seen online have these equations that obfuscate a lot — like counting 3 year vesting bonus as income for one year (equivalent to counting your RSU initial grant as one years comp) and assuming 20% gain on 10 year investment (then dividing by 10) or estimating yo...Read more
Anybody familiar with Bank of America hiring process? I have an interview scheduled with the Hiring manger. First the recruiter reached out via email basically asking questions like location, salary expectations. After that I was scheduled an interview with hiring manger. Will it be a one and done c...Read more
Are there jobs in the financial industry that are even remotely fulfilling and have a decent WLB? I work ops at a hedge fund and don’t know where to go from here. Yoe: 3 Tc: 120k
Received a verbal offer from Paypal HR. What is required for the background check? How many years of employment history is covered? Do they need previous managers contact?
Hi I was recently laid off by Amazon. I have a quick question around JPM interviews. I am currently interviewing for 602 level role and found a 603 level role I’m am interested in owned by the same recruiter but different team. I was wondering if there is a policy at JPM where the same recruiter ca...Read more
#bankofamerica #offer
I grew up poor, parents are still poor. I’m an american. Not sure if I should get an LLC cause I tutor college kids and drive for DoorDash to pay student loans. Also have RSUs. Should I get a tax and advisor? Can you please spell out for me exactly who I should contact and what I should say? Thanks ...Read more
What do you do day to day? Is it a typical “quant” work? I never see a Quant outside of hft/hedge fund/BB so I don’t know what exactly do you do there? Do you trade/find alphas/optimize portfolio/… or focus more on model validation/risk? How is the culture? How much is it is transferable to a pr...Read more
#finance #interview
As i'm sure everyone already knows, the FTC banned noncompetes (although you have to pay attention to how "noncompete" is actually defined since some garden leave noncompete contracts may not qualify) last week. Are you guys discussing this internally? How are the executives and lawyers reacting? ...Read more
Hi, has anyone given a case interview for Mastercard? My first round is a case round and usually I am used to giving machine learning related case studies. But this seems more like a consultant type of case study. Appreciate any tips or guidance 🙏 Thank you. #interview#mastercard #finance
Ignore tax implications of moving - I’m moving for personal reasons.
I have got one offer to work in a bank as a model validator. I know for sure that they have great work life balance (work less than 30 hrs per week). I feel, this path doesn’t have many opportunities for growth post VP level. Handful make it to director and even less to MD. MD level is probably the...Read more
If you have $500k, which one is better to park your money let’s say for 2 years.
Looking through blind and seeing all the TC posts got me thinking, what is everyone's real hourly pay? What i mean is, we all know that we're not working 40 hours a week. some are but many are working a lot less/more. so i'll go first: Finance Manager (5 YOE) TC: $200K My stated hourly rate is $96...Read more
After 8 yrs of working in analytics, I took a leap and went back to school. Just graduated with two offers in hand: 1) BB Trader 2) hf quant. Same product. I’m new to both of these two jobs. If you are curious, none of these two pay over 200K base. Not sure which one can lead to a better future to...Read more
What level is Lead TPM at JPMC? Is it VP level? I've also seen levels like 603, 604 etc in various posts. Where does Lead TPM fit in? What is the interview process like?Also what TC to expect for this role? Current TC - 220k #interview #tpm