Moving from core tech to HFT firms
Anyone here moved from a major core tech company to a HFT firm ? Any pro/cons you are willing to share ? Also, if anyone has made the reverse move, how difficult is it to move back into mainstream tech ?
Pro: š° š° š° š°
Iāve heard they pay more. But how much more... Definitely more than Tree Fiddy š¹
I have an offer pending right now. Around 400k for the first year, I make barely 200k now. Iām probably going to take it..... Con: (which Iām aware of) may not be as challenging or state of the art. Latency limits are capped by the SEC so most HFT firms use 10Gbps x4 ports Ethernet whereas I come from a background of 400Gb/s x 128 ports. You do the math.
what type of engineering? is that machine learning or edge infrastructure or something else?
Lol @ not as challenging or state of the art... You think theyāre paying you 400k to just relax? HFT is what pushes the boundary of networking technology and low latency programming. I made the opposite move. My work is a lot more laid back now.
Con: HFT is immoral
OP is from Microsoft so...
HFT is a zero sum game. If you participate in it then the only people you're hurting are people at other HFT firms.