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- E-Trade Stock plan after leaving what happens to one’s E*TRADE stock plan after they leave a company ? I have an indivisible acct and a company stock plan. Will the stocks transfer to individual acct once I leave ? Or will I keep both accounts ? TC - 400K #etrade
- Trading on Robinhood while trading window is closed. Has anyone traded their company stocks on a different platform e.g. Robinhood or TD Ameritrade while the trading window was closed?
- RSUs question A publically traded company offered me 100k RSUs, they are trading at $50 per share. Does that mean it's essentially 5M in cash if I sell? UPD: recruiter mentioned it's 100k RSUs, NOT $100k in RSUs. It's a number of RSUs, not a cash amount equivalent. I worked only for startups before so in a start
- Running crypto trading bots Basically I hate working. I have some experience with profitable trading bots but they were with very low volume, not enough to live off. Has anyone ever worked for a HFT trading company (crypto or tradfi), learned some sauce, and then used your experience to write good functional bots for personal
- Wish Stock down 10% again The stock is trading under $2. Is there any hope for this company and how do people who work at Wish feel about this? $Wish is the worst investment I've ever made. I guess you live and learn. #investments #personalfinance #wish #netflix
- TikTok SWE Looking for Referrals (1 YOE) Hi, I am currently a SWE at TikTok. I would appreciate referrals for any Big Tech companies, HFT/prop trading firms, or well-established startups. Thanks! TC: 200K (first year) YOE: 10 months #referral #tiktok #swe #hrt #citadelsecurities #twosigma #deshaw #drw #imc #jumptrading #akunacapital #fa
- How to get into algorithmic trading? Hi there, I want to get into these companies as a quant ( HRT, Citadel, Jump trading, Two sigma). I need some project ideas? TC: 🥜🥜
- What skills for C/C++ High Frequency Trading What skills should I develop to apply successfully for core HFT trading companies. Besides leetcoding. If you answer networking, be more specific
- I rate stocks… Have been trading for 10-11 years now using technical analysis, can generally read a chart pretty well and get an idea of how likely a stock is to make a significant move and if it is more likely to be up or down. Feel free to hit me with some ticker symbols of companies you work at or want to work
- link Lyft earnings: Ride-hailing company's stock crashes 27% after hours, Uber down 11% Shares of Lyft lost more than a quarter of their value in after-hours trading Tuesday after the company provided light second-quarter guidance and warned investors it will have to keep spending on driver incentives. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/03/lyft-earnings-q1-2022.html
- Offer from Morgan Stanley via ETRADE for Associate (Senior SWE) Got an offer from Morgan Stanley (interviewed by ETRADE) for Associate. I am on h1b. Need opinion about company/policies. #Etrade #morganstanley
- Buy US stocks from india via Etrade #personalfinance #investments Anyone using E-trade for investing from india(apart from company RSUs)? Does the platform allow indian nationals to buy equity from US?
- What am I missing with my Win-Win strategy? I am joining a new company who is paying me 1M RSU over 4 years. They are a publicly traded company but very volatile wrt volume. With the market going down I fear I might lose the money. I am thinking of buying a 4 year buy put to strike 50% of the vesting value. The current price for option is 18
- Can I buy FB call options if my husband/wife works there? I know most of these companies have policies that prevent you from negotiating during certain windows. So assuming those call options are traded outside these disallowed periods, can I legally trade options in that scenario? TC 350K
- Highest paying roles + companies ? What are the highest paying roles + companies someone with a supply chain background can get? Does top tech beat all the consulting or trading firms? Roles Ex: Strategy + ops, program manager, GSM, etc Companies: Google/Apple/Meta/Citadel/Jane Street etc
- 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
- vote Offer Evaluation Company: ShareChat Position: DS 2 Base: 42L Bonus: 4.2L Joining Bonus: 3L ESOPS: 36L (4 years) Company: Bangalore-based HFT Position: Quantitative Researcher Base: 40L Bonus: Discretionary Current TC: 40L YoE: 1.7 #datascience #hft #india
- Which companies are offering full remote roles in India with ~1 YOE. I know few companies like Atlassian, Coinbase and LinkedIn. Pay could be traded-off but WLB should be good. TC: 12L
- vote are HFT SWE salaries legit on levels.fyi? I understand they could be quants but a lot of these people just have a bachelor's which makes me think they're SWEs at trading firms. For example: https://www.levels.fyi/company/Hudson-River-Trading/salaries/Software-Engineer/ There is a guy with 2 years of experience with a bachelors degree maki
- Referrals for FAANG+, Medium Cap Tech and Prop/HF firms Looking for referrals to FAANG companies and large/medium cap companies. Also interested in certain prop/hf firms. 2 YOE Leetcode: 380+ Companies I'm interested in include the following. Trading: Citadel Jane Street DE Shaw 2Sigma Jump Trading Hudson River Trading Optiver FAANG: Microsoft Googl
- vote Job hopping in this crazy job market Hi guys In my 12 YOE, I have had 4 employers as follows: 7 years: Employer 1 3.25 years: Employer 2 14 months: Employer 3 3 months: Employer 4 (changed jobs recently) Employer 2, 3 and 4 are bigtech companies (faang level). If make myself available again in this crazy job market, will my profile
- Stocks After leaving Nutanix Is Black out period applicable on etrade for a person who has left the company? #nutanix #etrade
- Do trading firms like HRT, Jane Street, Two Sigma etc have a drug culture? Just watched Wolf of Wall Street where everybody in the stock trading office seems to be doing ten different drugs and coworkers like to do drugs together at company events. Now all that happened in the 90s and they were stock brokers, but I honestly wonder if software engineers working in those t
- HFT to Tech switch Hi folks, I want to switch to tech/product company as I feel I'm doing something which might not have market value. Could anyone tell how easy or difficult is it to switch from HFT to product company for a senior role. The work I am doing at HFT might not be relevant for the product company. For exa
- Running trading bots personally as an ex-professional trading engineer Basically I hate working. I have some experience with profitable trading bots but they were with very low volume, not enough to live off. Has anyone ever worked for a HFT trading company (crypto or tradfi), learned some sauce, and then used your experience to write good functional bots for personal
- AirPods valued at a $115 billion business “Projected revenue for 2021 is estimated to be $29 billion. Typically, publicly traded companies trade at 30x revenue multiple. On the conservative end Apple’s AirPods business is estimated to be valued at $115 billion.“ #tech
- vote Another reason to dislike Robinhood Did you know Robinhood sells your trading data to hedge fund companies?
- Software engineer interviews at trading firms How do interviews for senior software engineers at trading firms like Jane Street, Hudson River Trading, Two Sigma, etc. differ from tech companies like FANG? Is it the same format -- coding, system design, etc.?
- How can I get Two Sigma/HRT/citadel interview call? I managed to get offers from Snap and MSFT and in final intervals with Google and F. However, I really want to work at a top HFT/trading place. I’m afraid if I just apply I might not hear back. How can I get an interview loop with these and similar fintech companies? Any help would be greatly appr
- What's a good TC for Sr. FP&A manager Working in a tech company in the Bay Area as senior fp&a manager. The company is about 300 people and I have 7 years of experience. What's a good TC for me? Also, how do you value the options you got in a non-public traded company? Thanks
- Trading Windows and Index Funds I don't buy/sell company stock except in trading windows but I was actually wondering, would trading windows apply to index funds and ETFs for example spdy? Should tech workers avoid trading those stocks when not in a window?
- link Why are hedge fund/trading firm folks so quiet on Blind? It seems every other day there's countless top tech company brag post about how much TC they are making. Yet you don't see hedge fund/trading firm folks brag much. Not many recent levels.fyi data points to go off of either. I wonder if this is because part of their contract states they have to stay
- How does startup equity work? I've only worked for publicly traded companies but tons of startups have been reaching out to me and are willing to offer a lot of equity. That said I have no idea how to evaluate them. Is it worthless until the company goes public? Are there just trading restrictions? How does it work? TC: $310k Y
- Does Insider Trading Policy applies when you are ex employee? If i am previous employee of company x, does the insider trading policy still apply to me? I still habe to wait for the trading window to sell my stock?
- Folks from india, how do you invest in tech stocks in USA Other than compensation from company, how can we trade stocks in US?
- Looking to move to NY. I have 10 yrs of experience working in tech in bayarea in analytics Which companies should I apply, FYI I like to trade.
- Should I go full time stock trading? I have been working at a mid tier company 8 YOE, TC $200k. (Not on what it shows in my profile). But also it’s a chill place and need to focus 3 hours per day to finish my daily tasks (I am very efficient when I focus). The rest time I am working but also trading stocks on the side. Very high win
- 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
- Looking for referrals; SWE/DE Hey! I'm looking for referrals to the following companies: Databricks, Microsoft, Lyft, Uber, Square, Twitter, Stripe, Airbnb, Snap, LinkedIn, Splunk, Bloomberg and all the HFT/prop trading companies. YOE: 1.5-2: Backend/Data TC: 110k, Arkansas 🙄 #leetcode : ~160
- How is AutoDesk/Automation anywhere as a company? AutoDesk vs Automation Anywhere... go with paper money vs public traded company...
- Trading crypto while working at a bank The bank I work at only allows employees to have certain trading accounts and they must be declared to the company. It doesn't seem like any of the crypto exchanges are approved. Does anyone know if this is really the case? Can you simply not trade crypto while working at a bank?
- Company pays best for software devs in Amsterdam? Is it Uber Amsterdam? Or amazon Amsterdam? Or ebay Amsterdam? or some trade company like optiver/flow?
- Black out trading windows working in tech I’m new to the industry working for Amazon but how do brokers (Schwab, Morgan Stanley, Fidelity etc..) prevent insider trading when employees of tech companies need pre-clearance from their respective employers for trading securities of where they work?? For example if I work at Amazon, I need pre-
- Where do you invest your cash? I use E*TRADE / fidelity for 401K and company RSUs. I've over 40K in cash that I want to invest somewhere. Someone recommended using Vanguard. Any advice will be appreciated.
- link Twilio Engineers Among 7 Charged In $1 Million Insider Trading Scheme At Start Of Pandemic https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2022/03/28/twilio-insider-trading-scheme-3-engineers-among-7-charged/?amp SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) – Three employees at San Francisco cloud communications company Twilio are among seven people charged in connection with a $1 million insider trading scheme, the Securi
- Experienced SWEs that moved to HFT/Prop Trading firms? Any experienced SWEs(10+ YoE) with backend/DS/C++ skills from large tech companies moved to HFT/Prop trading firms in NY/Chicago? How has your experience been? Culture/Pay/Tech stack
- vote You have to be clinically insane to join any fintechs right now The ones that are publicly traded have been getting destroyed: robinhood, affirm, paypal, coinbase Fast sizzling out "faster" than ever, blew through $120m in a legendarily stupid fashion (I don't even think I could spend this if I tried in 2 years) Excluding Stripe because they are probably the o
- Alternatives for Robinhood Which are some good trading apps other than Robinhood? Want to move out of Robinhood. Preferably some American company.
- vote HFT vs Tech for new grad in India Is joining an HFT a good choice in India compared to tech companies. I have an offer from both an HFT and a tech firm. YOE: 0 (new grad) HFT Offer: Infrastructure Developer: 25Lakh + 2 Lakh joining bonus + 8 Lakh yearly bonus. Tech Offer: Software Engineer: 28Lakh + 2 Lakh joining bonus + 4 Lakh
- From HFT(High frequency trading) to FAANG How relevant will my experience be as a developer in HFT firm (hard-core C++ dev) at FAANG companies? Will FAANG even consider hiring me? Edit: Added abbreviation for HFT since someone commented they didn't know the term.