Compensation is not bad since the recruiters are so desperate to fill their jobs asap that you can ask for the world without any attention to internal compression.
It’s a dog eat dog world now. No longer is Gap the company that values or supports family or cares about employee engagement, loyalty or tenure. You move up by who you know and how you look. Forget about diversity in the workplace. That’s all lip service. If you’re white and tall, this place is perfect for you.
What? Inconceivable! https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/05/2020-trade-figures-trump-failure-deficit-466116 #uspolitics #politics
Hi All, I’m an incoming Jane Street quant trading intern, considering doing a gap year next year and doing a few off cycle internships. Anyone know companies that offer off cycle internships in quant trading or quant research?
My background: non cs background, master studied at a ivy school with non cs engineering degree, poor gap around 3.2. First job worked at a startup wrote a trading system in c++. Second job worked at Uber as a backend go eng. Third job worked at Google Ads as backend infra in c++. Never had a chanc...Read more
I was recently impacted by the layoff at Cisco today. Purely for reasons of not wanting a resume gap is it possible/not unheard of to offer to trade severance $ for being left on the official rolls for a longer time but not paid anything or no benefits. The way Cisco’s layoff works is 60 days left o...Read more
How do I get a HRT, Jane Street, Optiver, Jump Trading, etc software engineering internship in my freshman summer at college? What are the useful resources and exact steps required? Assume you're someone who did math olympiad extensively in high school and was roughly at MOP-level, almost made the ...Read more
So let me get this straight: Robinhood sells trading information from retail investors to high frequency trading funds (*cough* Citadel*cough*), so they can keep your trades “free”. RH’s mission statement is to “Democratize finance for all”, then manages to take away the ability from retail traders...Read more
Hey Guys, I quit my job 2 years ago to become a stock trader (own fund, 500k, self-employed), the first year was great, I made 230k, unfortunately, in the second year, due to some risk management mistakes, I lost all the profit previous made and then some personal savings (small lost, about 50k). ...Read more
What is the ideal time in between jobs given I have enough PTO payout to avoid financial gaps in salary. There’s a trade off between getting too bored and having your employer wait versus being too burn out for the next job.
US election: China’s trade gap with United States was 43 per cent bigger in September than when Donald Trump took office https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3105354/us-election-chinas-trade-gap-united-states-was-43-cent-bigger - In a record month for Chinese imports, purchases of US...Read more
1. Mass shootings (no actions after Uvalde) 2. Expensive healthcare (2/3 reasons of bankruptcy) 3. Immigration issues (declining population will need to be supplemented by immigration) 4. Minimum wage ( cost of 18 eggs > 1 hr of work) 5. Increasing wealth gap (few people will own houses, afford re
Anyone else out there burnt out after working from home this last year? Feel like I worked more than I ever have in my life and it’s all just starting to feel like a blur of wasted time. Not sure about you, but when I was a kid I never aspired to stare at a computer screen 12 hours a day. Seriously...Read more
Someone used my identity( social, name, dob, email etc ) and created an account in E-Trade and requested ACATS transfer from my fidelity account to that E-trade account. I checked my account only to find out 90% of my assets in one of the accounts were gone. No message or email from Fidelity or E-tr...Read more
What do you all think of mandatory recurring stock grants *in addition to* a livable wage for all employees of publicly traded companies? I'm mostly talking about Amazon warehouse workers, McDonald's burger flippers, Tesla factory workers, UPS drivers, etc. This way, as the wealth of the company r...Read more
Hi guys! I have been recently lucky enough to be offered an E3 position at Facebook. I have checked my offer against some of my peers' and I am pretty much on par with them. However, I have offers from some asset management / proprietary trading companies that offer me 25-30% higher TC. This said, I...Read more
I've been on a gap year and I'm looking to get back to working as a quant trader. Figured I might as well shoot my shot here first since referrals are mutually beneficial. yoe: 2.5y as SWE at FAANG, 3y at tier 1.5 prop shop tc: made 550 the year I quit, though they were offering me 750 for the foll...Read more
I did not mention the fact that I left my last job during interview and this has backfired on me, now that my offer has been withdrawn after I told their legals I had actually quit several months ago during on-boarding. I have high professional standard at work but in this particular case, I just fe...Read more
I keep hearing it from the VTSAX and chill folks, over and over again. The pandemic bull market is making everyone (except them) look like a genius, even though it's actually been a bull market for almost 12 years, since March 2009. And just I wait until the bull market ends, then I'll surely get my...Read more
Alright ladies, listen up. I just spent the whole day going down the rabbit hole of this whole GME / RH / Citadel debacle. This is going to be long, so you might want to lie down and suck on your pacifier because this one would take quite awhile. Let me start off by saying that I have a smooth brai...Read more
Have seen lot of posts about ‘shorting’ market, buying dip and so on. Some of you might be tempted to try Options trading. Coming from an experienced trader who started with Black-Scholes model and built knowledge ( Statistical as well as real life), here is why you should NOT jump into Options tra...Read more