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FB Trading
- vote Facebook vs Hudson River Trading Im lucky enough to have offers for a SWE internship at both. I want to work distributed systems in the future. Pay is not a priority but HRT is offering much higher. Which do you think would be a better learning experience/ would look better on a resume?
- Facebook vs HFT Firms in London Hey Blinders, I am an E5 SWE @ Meta/FB London. Currently exploring switch options to HFT firms (like Hudson River Trading, Jane Street, Jump trading, 2 Sigma, Citadel, Optiver) as a software engineer in London. Though I am in early stages as of now, would like to get opinions to few of the followin
- Prop trading vs FB return intern Reached final interview one of {IMC, DRW, Optiver} in Chicago. Is it worth doing an internship there or doing a return internship at FB? I'm worried about the prop trading shops having worse WLB or TC not catching up as a software engineer after a couple years, whereas at FB I could try to quickly
- Facebook -> Quantitative trading/engineering Been working at Facebook for a few months now as my first job (graduated Dec 2018), and overall it's been great. I'm thinking of firms like 2Sigma, JSC, Citadel, etc. However, I find my work to not be that technically challenging (maybe because I'm a solutions engineer as opposed to a SWE, although
- Facebook vs. HFT (Menlo Park / Chicago) Hi all, I've got offers from a tier-two HFT (think DRW, Optiver, IMC) and Facebook in Chicago and Menlo Park respectively. I've signed the HFT offer, but the Facebook offer came in and I'm torn. I'm interested in low latency / systems development, so whether I enjoy FB would be contingent on workin
- IMC / DRW Quant Trading vs FB SWE #imc #drw #facebook #newgrad Asking for a friend. Deciding between software engineering at Facebook and quant trading at one of IMC / DRW (new grad). Is the worse wlb + long term tc upside at these trading firms worth it over better wlb + stable tc at FB? Friend is looking to live a relaxed life i
- Meta/FB vs HFT vs Hedge Fund in London - which offer to take? I am struggling to decide between my top three offers, which are for Meta, a Hedge Fund (think Citadel, Jane Street, Two Sigma, etc.) and a London based HFT firm (you'll likely know the name but want to protect my privacy). The offers are: Meta (E5): TC ~£203k (109, $420/4 years, 15% bonus), plus £
- HFT firm vs Facebook SWE - stress level? I joined FB from HFT and although my wlb has gotten much better at FB but my stress level is through the roof. I find FB a lot more stressful than any other companies I have worked. Are other FANG so much stressful? $500k TC.. 10 YOE, E5. I am in NYC
- Does Google/Facebook consider competing offers from trading firms? I heard from someone that either Google or Facebook has a list of companies that they'll match their offers against for competing offers and if you're competing offer isn't one of those companies they won't match it. Does anyone know more about this and if G/FB will match their offers against those
- Can I trade stocks in FB 401k plan? If I join FB and opt into their 401k plan, can I buy and sell individual stocks and ETFs or will I only be able to buy/sell index and mutual funds? (Have an offer, still negotiating, will post numbers once finalized)
- vote Are Hedge Funds/ Trading firms good next steps from FB? I’m at FB and I like it a lot but I’m curious as to what the best next steps are from FB. Im not looking to move yet (I’d like to reach E5 first most likely) but I don’t really want to work at Google because of what I’ve heard about promotion/career velocity as well as the slower paced environment.
- Does anyone know what the personal trading policy at Facebook is? Can they trade freely in F & O without any approvals? #facebook
- Need referral for Citadel, 2 Sigma, Jump Trading | Ex Facebook Intern Hi everyone! I was a SWE Intern @ Facebook this summer and have received a return offer for the next year, but I’m looking to explore other domains to broaden my experience and hedge fund space always fascinates me. I believe interning with one of these companies would be a good way to start & expe
- FB and Cisco are now trading at the same P/E ratio Wtf is happening in this market?
- How to answer a trade off questions in a Facebook execution interview for PM? Example how do you evaluate a trade off between boosting ad revenue vs decreasing revenue ? Or if one metric goes up and other goes down? Is there any framework to answer these types of questions? Any help would be greatly appreciate. #pm #product #productmanager #facebook #executioninterview
- Referral for Google London/ Ireland /Zurich , FB London and HFT firms across Europe Curious in exploring opportunities in Europe. TC :- 20 lpa ( 17 base + 3 jb ) YOE :- 0.5 CF Rating :- 1977 Tech Stack :- Java Thanks for reading :)
- Jumping from FB SWE to quantitative trading firms (Jane Street / HRT) im coming up on about year at Facebook (came in as a new grad) as a SWE primarily doing machine learning engineering. A guy i know at FB (also new grad about a year in FB) recently got recruited by jane street and took their offer. The all-in comp at jane street hes getting is around what would be f
- Overpaid at work. Made $2M outside work. AMA. This was my previous post last year: [Blind] Retired at FB till I get fired. AMA https://us.teamblind.com/s/UUPNZuKw Due to boredom at work (doing 20h/w), I traded TSLA and SQ options this year and cashed out 1.5M already and holding onto $500k more gains till next year to minimize taxes. FB TC: ~
- Meta hiring freeze confirmed from Q1 earnings release It says it right there in the Q1 earnings press release: https://s21.q4cdn.com/399680738/files/doc_financials/2022/q1/Meta-03.31.2022-Exhibit-99.1_Final.pdf "We expect 2022 total expenses to be in the range of $87-92 billion, lowered from our prior outlook of $90-95 billion." Where are they going
- Staff level salaries London What are the staff level salaries in London? Looking for companies like Google, Facebook, Apple, The Trade Desk, Snap, etc. TC: 100k GBP
- Google -> Facebook with kids L6 SWE at Google, 3 young kids. Happy enough, but TC difference vs FB is starting to get significant, even putting aside inflation. If I go for it and retention doesn't pan out, am I going to regret trading WLB for the extra comp? My only friends at FB don't have kids so can't really answer the q
- vote FAANGM of hedge funds/prop shops/HFT’s This list is loosely based on desirability, TC, WLB, headcount, and interview difficulty: Facebook (Meta) = Jump Trading Amazon = Citadel & Citadel Securities Apple = Two Sigma Netflix = Hudson River Trading Google = Jane Street Microsoft = DE Shaw Some exceptional startup that makes all of its e
- vote Where is the best talent these days? 15 years ago, everyone wanted to join Google and Facebook as they were the next cool thing. However, FAANG companies have hired everyone and their mom over the past decade that it's not considered "wow" or anything to work there anymore. Where did the smartest/most ambitious people you know go? Sti
- How much and what kind of stock do you own? I’ll start: (all in dollars, not units) 100k in FB (vested RSU) 50k Index funds (+ 401k but no idea how much) 5k Bitcoin 2k Netflix 2k Amazon 1k trading randomly
- How to sell RSUs outside trading windows For companies with trading windows, such as Facebook / Google, how can one sell RSUs outside trading windows? Is "limit sell" an option to sell outside the trading windows? Meaning, set the limit sell order during trading window, and it can be triggered outside the trading window. Are there other
- FAANG vs HFT - New Grad Have a FB offer in hand for 250k first year then 180k. HFT offers for new grad are going for 450k first year (all cash) Is it worth going through the interview process again? Does career progression at FAANG outweigh the insane starting salary at HFT? #faang #hft #newgrad
- Does Google negotiate with HFT offers? I have new grad offers at both tech (Facebook) and HFT but my recruiter says I should pick 2 to give the compensation team. My HFT offers are almost all > 300k so if Google can match (which I know they won't), I'd choose those but I heard they don't value HFT offers as much since a large part of
- get into jane street is it possible to get into jane street from another hedge fund? I just search all linkedin. there is virtually no one get into jane street after working in two sigma, hudson river trading, jump trading, citadel. but there are many people who got into jane Street from Google, Facebook why
- link Chinese tech companies stealing IP https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/07/10/huawei-in-santa-clara-infiltrated-summit-at-facebook-sent-trade-secrets-to-china-lawsuit/
- Quant/HFT/Trading firms with highest TC for SWE Which mid to large size Quant/HFT/Trading companies pay the highest avg TC for SWEs (say someone with backend experience at G/FB)? #finance
- What happens if you trade outside of trading window? What's stopping me from going to Robinhood and trading FB stocks outside of trading window? It's not like they track activities of all 40k employees?
- vote Ape 🦧 sh$t is real? My Facebook and Instagram is flooded with Ape NFTs info speaking of how much money people made by trading their APE NFTs. Not just 100s or 1000s but talking about millions. 🤔 What do you guys think? Is it for REAL 😳
- Bye bye So I’m trading you fucks for FB. Hello .NET 😈
- vote What's your favorite acronym? I got a new one G - Google A - Apple N - Netflix D - Databricks A - Amazon L - LinkedIn F - Facebook Gandalf! B - Blind O - Oracle R - Robinhood E - E-Trade D - Databricks Bored! #tech #faang #gandalf #bored
- FB TC isn’t worth it… I left Microsoft for FB last year. 1 year into FB and I regret joining this place. Work at FB is a lot of fun, but FB is a stressful and busy place. I joined during pandemic and time flew so quickly. I realized I stopped working out, relationship with my gf stained badly and now trying to fix it. D
- Fb options for long position Any suggestions on trading FB for tomorrow earnings, assuming I want to be long FB.
- New Grad Referrals: 300k+ What's up Blind gang. Recently finished my internship at Facebook (got the rockstar return offer 124/220/75), and I'm looking for referrals to trading firms (Jane Street, Jump, HRT, Citadel, etc). I'm not too familiar with the work at these firms, but I'm thinking it could be a good idea to apply.
- vote Offer: FB vs Google Help me pick Fb: e6 255 base 1.4m over 4 100 sign on Google: L5 235k base 675k rsu front loaded over 4 (33, 33, 22, 12) 50k sign on I feel like trade off is stability vs growth Very conflicted. Big level diff too Google stock split looks good but fb stock looks cheap Current tc 363k
- Game over for HFT infra engineers Hi Amazon is entering HFT space. I guess elite trading firms like Jane Street, Citadel, Two Sigma, Hudson River Trading etc, will no longer hire Infrastructure and SRE engineers. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-30/amazon-cloud-will-power-nasdaq-u-s-options-market-next-year TC: 265
- Interview journey I did a few interview loops and managed to flunk every single one of them.. Ready to give up and accept the career ceiling I have hit. - Dropbox (IC4) - Twitter (staff) - Snowflake (principal) - LinkedIn (staff) - Jump Trading - Netflix (senior) - Coinbase (staff) - Robinhood (staff) Planning on
- Max Google New Grad Offer Does anyone know what the highest new grad google offer is? given competing offers from trading/fb/snap. TC: student
- vote Renege Facebook for Schonfeld or The Voleon Group I have software engineering internship offers for the Voleon group and Schonfeld. I have already accepted a facebook internship offer. Is it worth reneging Facebook for these companies? This is my final internship and I feel like accepting one of the trading firms will make it easier for me to get h
- Commodities Trading Does anyone here trade commodities? I heard that Facebook Cofounder made 300k trading natural gas when he was an undergrad ar Harvard. I was inspired by this and trade natural gas and oil futures. its also a good way to diversify from tech jobs. does anyone else do this?
- vote Will Elon Musk talk about Dogecoin in the SNL? #blockchain #bitcoin #crypto #doge #dogecoin #elonmusk #elon #google #amazon #facebook #Apple #netflix #microsoft #trading
- vote Do you feel pressure/stress due to fear of PIP or layoff risk? (non-FAANG ALLUM* version) For employees at: Cisco Dropbox Github Nvidia Oracle Palantir algo/HFT prop trading firms quant hedge funds "New" other companies (*FAANG ALLUM = Facebook Amazon Apple Netflix Google, Airbnb LinkedIn Lyft Uber Microsoft)
- Top 7 Market Cap Companies Google closing on Apple. Amazon closing on Microsoft. Tencent higher than FB - (traded in hkd)
- Prestige Ranking of Jobs for CS PhDs 1️⃣ R1 TT 2️⃣ HFT 3️⃣ GOOG FB 4️⃣ AAPL AMZN NFLX MSFT UBER Thoughts?
- Pay at Trading Firms compared to FANG For a senior software engineer, who pays more: trading firms like Jump Trading/Jane street or Two Sigma or Facebook/Google/Netflix? At the intern and new grad level it's clear that it is the trading firms. However because of limited data points and the complication of stocks it's less clear how eac
- What tier 2/3 companies give 220k+ TC for 2.5 yoe in NYC? Software engineering. I’m aware of Facebook, Google, Amazon, and trading firms, but I’m looking for companies that have an attainable bar to pass. Currently at Spotify, TC: 160k #nyc
- How did so much false information about COVID spread? https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2115869 That's the third high quality study in a row showing that ivermectin is basically a placebo when it comes to COVID. But for the past year there have been millions of people fooled into thinking it works, trading links on YouTube and Facebook with