Is it better to join a high frequency trading hardware team at a two sigma, jp morgan, goldman? or stay in computer hardware at intel, amd, nvidia, apple? ~~wondering for TC and career growth~~ @jpmorgan @goldmansachs @twosigma @apple @nvidia @intel @amd
I am interested in this myself as I am interviewing for such a position.
Is there still more juice to be squeezed at HFT? I was under the impression that the low-hanging-fruit days of HFT are gone quite some time ago.
The big players still make a lot of money but the size of the pie has def shrunk a lot..and the smaller firms def have a much harder time competing
Hft at rentech
Definitely join a trading firm or quant hedge fund (Citadel Securities, Virtu, Two Sigma...there are also a ton of smaller ones that don't like to be talked about) over any of the tech companies you listed besides maybe Apple (or Google or FB hardware teams too) I would be very wary about joining JPM or GS though...I might be wrong but they don't really do much in the way of HFT anymore. (Btw I no longer work at Intel).
Pardon me - but what is high frequency trading hardware? These companies have custom hardware? I'd love to learn more. Links?
What do they want you to do? Build some custom asics,?
That would be cool. Would want to evaluate the current hardware and code and find out ways to shave off nanoseconds. Eventually want to get to a CTO role