Referring to trading stocks, options, crypto etc using algos, can be ML or rules-based with your personal money. Is it a waste of time given how competitive the market is, Two Sigma geniuses running everything, or can it be profitable if you're on your own?#personalfinance
I'm interviewing this month and next and seemed to oversubscribe myself. I'm looking for caliber upgrade and $. WLB is non factor. Help me rule out companies. Doing: g, fb, u, amz, lnkd, lyft, snap Unsure about doing: stripe, dbox, zillow, apple, sift, voleon, citadel, two sigma Need help on the ...Read more
Hi folks, Through my whole career I worked in tech startups of different sizes. Previously at Meta and then Twitter. With our new king I started looking around and passed the interviews for Citadel and Two sigma. But I am bit worried about this new environment. Never worked in finance before. I co...Read more
It's long past time for us to move past the outdated FAANG acronym as there are literally dozens of companies consistently paying $300k+ in liquid comp to newly hired software engineers with 5 years of experience or less. We need a new acronym that captures all of them. Post your new acronym below!...Read more
I'm 62 at MS with almost 3 yrs exp. TC is 240k but that will end in a year after my last hire stock and drop to 160k. I have a plan that I will interview now and if I get something good, go now, else try again in 1 yr. I have done well in distributed systems and some ML projects. I have done about 2...Read more
“Conform your life to the needs of business. Study and develop skills needed by the market. ... If you make a low wage, wear this uniform; if you make a high wage then you can dress casual and end up in the same exact The North Face Mao-fleeces as everyone else on the subway. They should have known ...Read more
Warning: long post. TL;DR; at the bottom. (*In Blind mobile app, only the first half of contents are shown because the post is too long. The second half has been added in the comments section. There is no issue reading this in desktop browser from teamblind website.) I started prepping for intervie...Read more