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- Does working in Bloomberg as a SE helps you invest better? My dream is to be FIRE or FI as early as possible. To do so investment is important. Salary is O(n), investment is O(c^n). Therefore I hope to work in Bloomberg so I can use the Bloomberg terminal for free and learn more finance during work time. Does it make sense? For people in Bloomberg, do you r
- vote 50% of bankers heading back to the office? Is this safe? 50% seems like a lot JPM. https://seekingalpha.com/news/3611950-jpmorgan-investment-bankers-head-back-to-office-bloomberg
- Great investing tools What are some great investing tools folks here use ? News sites, apps, trading stocks etc ? Something like Robinhood, betterment, seeking alpha, Bloomberg etc. #stocks #investment
- At what point did you realize you wanted more? Specifically, more TC, more net worth? Was it just being on Blind and seeing what was possible? Was it looking at your family's financial circumstances? Did you just have a drive to succeed? What was the motivation, what were the moments? TC: 155K YOE: 6 @google @netflix @amazon @facebook @met
- Millionaires, how long did it take + how did you do it? 1) How long did it take you to accumulate a net worth in the millions? 2) How did you do it? 3) How old are you? 4) What’s your TC? 5) What do you plan to do with your $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ ? TC: 155k YOE: 6 #personalfinance #investments @google @apple @netflix @facebook @meta @microsoft @atlassian @s
- link The answer to every “how to invest” question ever. I keep seeing this come up over and over again. Blind is good for comparing salaries, not the best place for a nuanced discussion of a complex topic. Here are the top 2 resources for learning about investing in all categories: Websites: Bogleheads wiki Bogleheads forum Newsletters: Capital Minded
- link Is this a joke? You can't be serious Just saw this ad for a startup fund raising campaign on Bloomberg. It so incredibly reeks of over-the-top unicorn riding silicon valley BS that I'm left speechless. Has the world gone cuckoo? Steve Jobs's reality distortion field got magnified 100 times? Someone pinch me please. https://www.knights
- Can you do the Mega Backdoor Roth at Bloomberg? I just started at Bloomberg. I was wondering if anyone knows if it is possible to use the Mega Backdoor Roth (aka After-tax 401k) strategy with Bloomberg's 401k plan? Thank you. #personalfinance #investments #401k #stock
- What website/software do you use to get a US/Indian/Chinese company 10-30 year financials? Investing noob. I am looking for a software/website that individual investors use get a company's historical data. I think it's called a screener? Not sure. I'm looking for a one for the US, Indian and Chinese markets. Help appreciated. Thanks! EDIT: Is Bloomberg a one size fits all solution? #
- Bloomberg vs Addepar Trying to decide between an offer from Bloomberg and Addepar for Senior SE/SE II role Bloomberg Team: Asset Investment Manager Pay: 198k base + 42k bonus Addepar Team: Completely new team for a new product being worked on Pay: 160k base + 100k stock option units priced at $1.15 Pay is better at Bl
- vote Is Bloomberg a Fake News? I don’t get it! One day it has a positive opinion about market and very next day it has negative eg. Big Tech stocks. One day crypto investments are going strong and next day it’s a trillion dollar wealth crash. I think they don’t know what they’re talking. Do you guys think Bloomberg is a fake
- Guilt About Leaving Anyone else thinking about leaving but feel extremely guilty about it? I have a great TL/manager that have recently given me a lot of responsibility. My TL always vouches for people on our team and is in general looking out for our best interests career-wise. I had applied to a couple of HFTs that
- Shell/BP London referral Hi everyone, I'm a finance professional seeking a corporate finance role in any of Shell or BP London. I have 4+ years of experience in alternative investments, transaction advisory, M&A, valuations, commercial and financial analysis. Skill set include: Financial modelling, investment analysis, c
- I want to take a large position in one or two stocks. Something like 40 to 50k. Any suggestions what? I have a very well diversified portfolio of about 40 stocks, about 8 ETFs and mutual funds. I've been playing it safe. I have about 500k on non retirement accounts (another 500k in retirement accounts). So taking a risk with 40 to 50k doesn't not seem too dangerous. #investments Obviously I'd like
- How does crude oil ETFs work i am looking at strategic ProShares Ultra Bloomberg Crude Oil ETF (UCO). it is so down. being new to stocks i am not sure how does theseETFs work and what kind of upside i am looking assuming energy sector recovers fully in next 2-3 years.#investments
- link Microsoft exploring options to buy Tiktok Bloomberg QuickTake News: LIVE Q&A: Microsoft is Exploring an Acquisition of TikTok's Operations in the U.S.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EonbOygISw0 Trump wants China to sell it's US Tiktok investment to the US. Time to add the M to FAANG is this is true. #microsoft #tiktok #government #chin
- link New acronym for tech stocks is here! https://www.marketwatch.com/story/how-to-invest-in-the-sp-500-without-betting-on-faamg-stocks-2020-10-23 Jim Cramer coined FAANG. Bloomberg has replaced it with FAAMG. Microsofties, congrats! Satya has really turned it around. Netflix, how do you feel about the first to leave the group? Google, do
- Quant Dev, help me to understand max TC I have +10 years of experience as Quant Developer and I have worked as consultant all the time. My compensation is around $1000/day ($120/hs) But I'm having offers for full time and I'm wondering what's the best base + bonus I could get. Please help. #finance #quant #investmentbanks #ib #hedgefun
- Compound Kings ETF KNGS? What do you guys think of this new active ETF KNGS? Portfolio: https://compoundkingsetf.com/portfolio I found about this ETF from this bloomberg article: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-07/hedge-fund-converts-to-etf-in-first-for-5-4-trillion-industry Also please suggest alternativ
- Machine learning teams at Bloomberg Heard the major ML/NLP forces at Bloomberg is News/AI teams. I’m wondering for the huge financial analytics teams(portfolio, MARS, derivatives, pricing, mortgage, blabla), they would deal quite lot with math/quant, so do they also invest in ML/NLP? Anyway any recommendation of other ML/NLP teams (i
- vote Bloomberg vs DoorDash New Grad Offers International student here. Got offers from Bloomberg and DoorDash as a New Grad SWE Bloomberg TC: 145k base, 20k bonus, 10k relocation DoorDash TC: 135k base, 175k over 4 years vested RSU, 20k sign-on, 5k relocation Location does not matter. Worried about job security at DoorDash (since the compa
- Tech Finance Roles Hi Blinders, I am looking for referrals to FANNG, Microsoft, or any other tech companies for finance/treasury roles. I am currently based in Southern California. YOE: 7 Bacherlors in Computer Engg. Masters in MFE. Title: Investment Manager Thanks in advance!! #microsoft #slack #paypal #facebo
- Software Engineer at UBS London | Authorised Officer Hi All, I have received offer from UBS for Software Engineer Authorised Officer position. Please let me know what number I can negotiate with them. Compensation offered - 68k. Also what bonus I can expect? Yoe: 2.3 years Current Compensation : 60k I think it's very low for location and position o
- link Global Negative Yielding Debt Index rising to $17.05 trillion. Bloomberg Barclays Global Negative Yielding Debt Index rising to $17.05 trillion. What does this mean? Source: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/negative-yields-may-be-coming-to-us-guggenheim-cio-scott-minerd-143230546.html Some text around the data but can someone explain in simple terms like where
- Offer evaluation: Coinbase/BBG/Robin Hi Folks, I got three offers (so far). Really appreciate any feedback (TC yearly -average within 4yr): 1) Coinbase : Quant Research -> bs:200K, bonus:30K, RSU: 100K/4yr, sign-on:45K--> TC:270K 2) Bloomberg: S. Dev --------> bs: 250k, bonus:60K, RSU:0, sign-on:30K--> TC:3
- Best way to learn investing With the recent rise on investing in stock market, I was wondering how people have been studying in the past and currently to keep up-to-date with news, trends and methodologues. I personally subscribe to wsj/bloomberg and recently been watching several youtubers, which often can be hard as a lot o
- How much money is safe to keep in Robinhood? My net worth is around 270k. I have about 210k of that in Robinhood. 95% of my holdings are ETFs. I am 28 years old and I don't plan on cashing out my investments in the next 5 to 10 years. I know that Robinhood has the SPIC insurance of up to 500,000$ for securities. The reason why I like Robinhood
- Brain Fatigue For the past 6 months, I have no urge to wake up and do work. I’ll login 30 mins late after fighting with myself to get up and walk the 3 feet to my desk. I’ll start working for a few hours and just be on my phone for the rest of the day or go back to sleep(80% of the time) because I’ve been up unti
- Technical Cofounder Needed I am a progressive HR practitioner and founder of HumInt Labs, a human capital management consultancy. I saw an opportunity to build the next Bloomberg Terminal but for human capital data to enable investors, boards, execs and HR to better diagnose, triage, value and invest in companies and workfo
- link Sharks arrive at GME party What are your thoughts on this? "Bloomberg’s Katherine Burton and Katherine Doherty reported on Tuesday that hedge fund Mudrick Capital booked a profit of around $200 million on positions in both GameStop and AMC Entertainment (AMC). Mudrick, which has about $3 billion under management, returned ju
- link Tencent reportedly negotiating agreement to retain stakes in Riot, Epic amid US national security data probe Chinese megacorporation Tencent is reportedly in negotiations with U.S. officials for an agreement to retain its stakes in League of Legends creator Riot Games and Fortnite developer Epic Games amid a national security data probe, according to a May 6 report from Reuters. The U.S. Committee on Fore
- Big dreams How can I become a quant researcher at top hedge funds? I graduated this December from a no name uni, which I attended due to lack of money. I have awesome academic profile, but sadly couldn't go for masters due to lack of money. I have been working at a startup in bay area for 3 weeks now and pay i
- link Need Referrals for MAANG+ Finance/CorpDev Hi Everyone, I came across Finance & CorpDev Manager/Sr. Manager roles at these companies that I wanted to see if anyone (preferably Manager and up) could help me out with? Need referrals please!! I'm currently a Sr. Manager CorpDev at a startup (Series D) -- believe my international experience cou
- link Companies That Hire Directly From India! Will be joining Microsoft IDC this month. TC : 50 lpa(base+stocks+joining bonus+yearly bonus) YOE : 3.5 LEVEL : L61 Planning to do an MBA from US after a few years but before that want to work outside India as a software engineer. Adding a list of companies which hire directly from India. Add a co
- Required - Referrals/Job in Accounting/Finance/Reporting Hi Blind Community, I'm looking for good job opportunities in the field of Finance, Accounting & Reporting. I'm currently residing in Sunnyvale, California. I have good industry experience and have managed various projects & teams. I would appreciate any job referrals/leads. Below is my summarised
- Referrals for Fall 2022 Internships Hey everyone! I am currently a CS junior at a nyc school (not columbia, the other one) and currently interning at a investment bank as a SWE and will do the same for summer as well. I have done 120+ LC and currently doing algoexpert and started doing system design as well and plan on grinding LC mor
- Need Referrals for Finance/CorpDev Hi Everyone, I came across Finance & CorpDev Manager/Sr. Manager roles at these companies that I wanted to see if anyone (preferably Manager and up) could help me out with? Need referrals please!! I'm currently a Sr. Manager CorpDev at a startup (Series D) -- believe my international experience cou
- Need Referrals for Finance/CorpDev Hi Everyone, I came across Finance & CorpDev Manager/Sr. Manager roles at these companies that I wanted to see if anyone (preferably Manager and up) could help me out with? Need referrals please!! I'm currently a Sr. Manager CorpDev at a startup (Series D) -- believe my international experience cou
- link Need Referrals for MAANG Finance/CorpDev Hi Everyone, I came across Finance & CorpDev Manager/Sr. Manager roles at these companies that I wanted to see if anyone (preferably Manager and up) could help me out with? Need referrals please!! I'm currently a Sr. Manager CorpDev at a startup (Series D) -- believe my international experience cou
- Am Looking for a Quant Job, if anyone could help me please?! Thank you so much, not taking this for granted. I'm working at a Middle Market Bank, and I think the Job Description was falsified in some capacity. Have to work for 11 hours a day and then Manager comes and asks to hussle a bit more. I want to get out as soon as possible. For what it's worth, I feel very confident in topics like these: Stochast
- Software engineer wanting to move to finance/IB Hey guys, I'm a software engineer with 9 YoE, and I want to work in finance. Could be in IB, a hedge fund, whatever. I also want to relocate to NYC because I don't like the west coast (and that goes double for the Bay Area). My work experience includes Amazon Web Services and a couple of retail ba
- List of gem 💎 companies Not super well known (the likes of FANG) Great WLB (<= 40h, no or low on call). Good culture, no stack ranking, nice people, family friendly. Ok salary, enough to live but not for the TC chasers. I’ve heard good things about Expedia, Salesforce, ServiceNow, etc. Can you share your gem company?
- From quant to FAANG Hi Blind I am a quant trader in the front office department of a hedge fund. I started my career at Bloomberg in NYC and then quickly moved to hedge funds, specifically Citadel in Chicago and now another boutique hedge fund here. I have a PhD in physics with lots of statistics experience, but I’ve
- Help with Referral Help with Referrals Greetings Blind Community, Hope you all are safe and well. I am writing this message to reach out to fellow Blindians to seek your referral for job opportunities in Finance domain at Associate Level (Analyst roles also welcome). With 5 years of experience in Public Accounting
- Thank you Blind - meta offer I have joined Blind since 2019 and following since then. A bit of my journey. I have more than decade experience on financial domain, I have been financial software engineer doing backend stuff. I was a part of the investment banking bandwagon victim, however I enjoyed all time in this domain. It wa
- Apple in talks with Canoo ($GOEV) for Project Titan (Apple Car) Apple previously wanted to purchase Canoo early last year. Canoo turned down an acquisition offer and wanted an investment instead. After talks fell apart, Canoo went public via SPAC as $GOEV in December. A few months ago, Ulrich Kranz (CEO and Co-Founder of Canoo) left the company. He said many ti
- link Buying a house? Read this! I’ve been looking for a house for 3 months now in the San Francisco Bay Area and I’d like to share my learnings. If you been there, done that, you can skip this, otherwise, feel free to continue reading. 1. Your agent is not your best friend. They want to establish trust so they can sell you a hous
- vote Is 100% 401K Match up to 5% of salary above average? Saw this from the startup perk post https://www.teamblind.com/post/Most-ridiculous-startup-perks-4JoNF6FN OP was saying 100% Match up to 5% was a good perk from their company. Some comments say their companies match up to 12%. Updated: Analog puts %5 of salary without needing contribution from the
- Uber valued at $40bn At $45 Billion Price, SoftBank Talks Enflame Uber Tensions By Jessica E. Lessin, Serena Saitto and Amir Efrati Aug. 04, 2017 1:10 PM PDT Share Three weeks ago, Benchmark partners Matt Cohler and Peter Fenton flew into Sun Valley, Idaho for a private meeting with Masayoshi Son of SoftBank, according
- link Will Uber sell it's South East Asian business to Grab? Grab’s $2 billion fundraising, announced on Monday and led by SoftBank, has changed the ride-hailing game in that region, giving the Singapore-based firm what may be an unassailable advantage. Uber may have to consider selling its assets to Grab. That is an enormous turnaround on the situation for