Life balance is good for a financial company but varies largely from team to team
Very silo with little to use and central team. Lot of repeats
#engineering #jumptrading heyo, I just finished on-site interviews and I'm scheduled for a call with a person from HR to talk about my salary expectations. I have 2 years of experience and I'm currently making £100k base with an annual bonus of 15k. How much can I realistically expect from Jump? Wh...Read more
Just got jane street offer 600k first year tc About to get promoted to senior (L5) at goog (salary bump and refresher) I really like my team at goog,not sure if i should make the jump to trading (not too familiar with the space) Yoe:4 TC 300k
https://quanwei-tech.blogspot.com/2019/08/top-high-frequency-trading-firms-and.html Disclosure: My total compesation at Google is $460K. You can see exactly how much top high frequency trading firms pay their employees below. Note: 1. The salary data does not include bonus, which could be much h...Read more
Mainly interested in- Citadel Hudson River trading Jane street Jump trading Two sigma Optionally PDT Partners Bloomberg Please mention title, yoe, base salary, annual bonus and additional components if any. Thanks.
Does anyone know what the bonus structure for Jump Trading is like? Obviously there are no refreshers like FAANG so how does it work? Is the TC just base + bonus? I heard that HTF like Citadel & Two Sigma gives bonuses higher than base salary. Is that the same for Jump Trading? What are the annual...Read more
I see that finance companies like citadel, Hudson River, jump trading can beat the current salary by 100k even if it is high. Do tech companies like Airbnb, Facebook even try to match?
There are lots of threads and data about US salaries but very few about London and UK in general. Here are the top paying companies I know of. My TC is 70K GBP with <1 YOE. Tier-1: Amazon Bloomberg Meta Google Microsoft? Apple? Improbable? G-Research? Tier-0: Jane Street Citadel DRW Two Sigma
every time I hear about hedge funds I hear crazy salaries. E.g. Staff SWE at 600-800k while in big tech would be 300-450k TC But I still dont know if they are talking about quant engineers and not software engineers. Does anyone have some data around these? eg two sigma, jump trading, bridgewater,...Read more
Hey folks, I received an offer from Jump Trading for the core development team recently. It has not been overly good from my perspective compared to what I have at SAP or other options that might materialize quite soon. Base 95k GBP, 10k first year guaranteed bonus for Bristol, not London. It ha...Read more
Do financial firms like Citadel, Hudson River Trading, Jump Trading, AQR, etc. use these RPA (or IPA: AI+RPA) based tools (UiPath, Workfusion) to automate their trading processes. If yes, are these tools efficient enough to do such latency sensitive jobs? Also, are there any applications for these ...Read more
Now tech stocks are almost back or over all time high, recessions and layoffs are behind us (half joking half truth), here is a newly updated ranking S: HRT, Jump Trading, Citadel, Jane Street (HFT gods woth 500k+ new grad salary) S-: OpenAi, Netflix, Two Sigma (Selective top talents) A: FANG (Me...Read more
How much can I earn as a Senior SWE at HFTs based in India? I'm considering relocation there, I have HFT experience. I managed to find info on some companies (though don't know how reliable is that), but didn't find any info on Jump Trading. Currently based in Dubai, but relocating because getting...Read more
I'll be graduating college next spring, and I'm trying to decide how to start my career. I've done a lot of big N internships, and feel like I've gotten a feel for what a lot of different tech companies are like. I'm trying to narrow down my options, and am seriously considering either 1) joining a ...Read more
Currently I am in pretty decent position in my career. My current company is good. My role is good. I have got 3 promotions in 5 years including engineering manager bump to management band. But the only negative about this is with every promotion there was no salary jump/adjustment done. My company...Read more
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...Read more
Earlier this year I got really worried about the upcoming layoffs and started to interview around. Trading firms were pretty much the only ones who were actively recruiting SWEs at that time, so I interviewed with a number of them. To my surprise I got no offers. As we are approaching EOY I wanted t...Read more
I feel like I’m pretty competent and it’s been really easy to find jobs paying around 100k in my network based on people who know me or started/work at early startups and are willing to vouch for me. Been coding for like 6 years but I have 1.5 ish years of well paid professional experience. It fee...Read more
when i got out of college, i set an extremely aspirational goal for myself: VP by 30 y/o. what i didn’t understand then is just how fluid the relationship between title & salary is. after 3 years, i finally made manager. the salary increase was laughable, but i didn’t care cause tunnel vision didn’...Read more
Product Designer 3.5 YOE Base Cash: $155,000.00 RSUs: 75,000 They recently converted equity from ISO to RSUs grants. Company is private at a 1.2b valuation. Series C was last year. Options recently traded on the secondary market for $2/share. Which puts the ~RSU value at $150k for an over 4 year ...Read more
Hey ! I am a new grad interviewing for Bloomberg London. I am also interviewing for Google London. 1) I cleared two tech rounds and have my "system architecture" round with a senior software engineer. I wanna know what kind of questions will be asked and what kind of prep is required. 2) Given that ...Read more