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- How do various trading technology companies actually pay? Glassdoor skews low in my opinion and recruiter emails aren't trustworthy. Curious about New York and stock trading, too. About 10 years in Chicago options trading TC ~1m #finance #tech #options
- Commodity Trading to Technology (referrals appreciated) Hi All! Currently work in commodity trading (logistics/supply chain). Have 5 years of experience with an engineering/business operations background. Looking for referrals within the tech space!
- Anyone interviewed at Renaissance Technologies coming from HFT or another HF? Hey guys, I have heard that they usually don't consider anyone from classical finance (MBA type). Does this extend to people from systematic trading backgrounds (sde) as well? Cheers
- Peanuts for Bonus at Goldman Who else got peanuts in bonus today? I got 5% hike on base and next to non existent bonus despite meeting expectations for last year. PS : I am in tech TC : 160K (for 2020) YOE : 3 Update #1 Previous Base : 150k New Base : 158K Cash bonus : 10k PS : We do not get RSU like a lot of people out the
- vote Bridgewater Associates vs Palantir vs. Uber (Internship) Hey, CS sophomore at Stanford. Prior internships at Facebook and Bay Area startups. I received several offers but these are the ones I am considering: Bridgewater, a hedge fund in Conneticut, as an technology associate (software) intern on the trading technologies team, Palantir, on their Gotham sof
- Are employees at Jane Street, HRT, etc. allowed to invest money into their company's proprietary funds? I know Renaissance Technologies offers this through their Medallion fund. Do Jane Street, Hudson River Trading, Two Sigma, etc. have something similar? TC 210 #janestreet #janestreetcapital #hudsonrivertrading #twosigma #citadel
- vote HFT vs FAANG I'm a new grad and I am interviewing with both HFT/prop shops and FAANGs. I am starting to think that the nature of work done at these places is very different: HFT dealing with more latency, low level code optimization, some algo/math etc, while FAANG dealing more with large scale systems and orga
- How Is Tech At Optiver what technologies do they work on? are they applicable else where? or does it corner you into trading firms? also how long is optiver offer good for?
- Aurora merger with spac Today aurora announced intent to go public through spac reinvent technology. Spac is trading around 10$ as of now. I know lot of folks from fangs joined aurora. Is it worth buying arnd 10$ ?
- What is JPM/Chase’s policy on Personal Trading? I work at GS and am considering an opportunity at JPMorgan Chase. We have very strict policies for Personal Trading at GS. Essentially, we can only trade certain ETFs that are whitelisted. However, many popular ETFs like ARKx are not whitelisted. If we want to trade a single-name entity, such as TS
- Delete Robinhood So disappointed that they clamp down retail investors. They don’t deserve the name Robinhood. I just deleted my app and withdrew my 2k. Updates from a comment: Get out of robinhood asap, things not looking good https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-28/robinhood-is-said-to-draw-on-credit-l
- vote Bank Quant or Bank SWE Internship Not sure which to pick , wanted to see what people here thought. Bank of Montreal : Quant Researcher Intern + Execution within Trading, Equity Trading Desk Citi : Swe Intern , Trade Technologies Solutions team , but heard that the office is like an off shoring office , where it's mainly supporting
- How much do quant developers make? Wandering in general. I know it depends on your level and YOE. Since lots people’s promotion stops at L6, maybe narrow the question to, how much does an L6 quant developer with 10 years of experience make? 4 YoE TC $385 #quant #trading D.E. Shaw Quantitative management associates Two sigma Renais
- Robinhood forgot to code leap year lol wtf. Any insight on what did really happened in terms of architecture or technology. Its shame we call you know up and coming startup with latest tech and scalability and yet no clue what went wrong for 8 plus hours not sure how long that will be. Note: Seems like they forgot to code leap year lol Nev
- FINAL ULTIMATE SWE Company Tier List Ordered based on various factors (compensation, engineering talent, WLB, prestige, etc). Tried to keep the companies in each tier ordered but if they are close together its fairly equal but something at start of T1 > end of T1. Let me know if you have any company to add. TC: 240k YOE: 0 - not a
- Updated Company Tier/Prestige Ranking I haven't seen an accurate Prestige Tier List in a long time so I decided I will do a comprehensive list with accurate information for the tech industry. If your company is not on the list there is probably a good reason for it. If you disagree just lmk and I might be able to adjust a little but thi
- Bytedance, Kuaishou, and Bilibili Kuaishou will IPO in the HK exchange tonight. They priced the IPO at 60B valuation and it's currently trading around 150B valuation in the grey market! https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-04/kuaishou-technology-surges-142-in-hong-kong-gray-market-trading This brings up two questions 1)
- Meta to Trading Transition SWE at Meta looking to transition into and interview for SWE role at HFT/Market Making Trading companies (NYC/Chicago). I have 2 YOE and am an E4. Most of my experience has been in Full Stack ENG working with FB-technologies (Hack, React, Mobile) - so not too much transferable knowledge. Has anyone
- Is it illegal to trade stock of competitor? Question: Let's say you work at Amazon and you know they are about to launch some new technology that competes with Google. If you work at Amazon obviously there are rules against trading Amazon stock, but would it be against the law to sell Google stock before launch? #investments
- Have anybody gone from Samsung to FAANG or HFT? Hi all, I am having an offer from Samsung Semiconductor. But, thinking about going from there to FAANG or HFT. I will graduate soon with a PhD in CS and the position that I was offered in Samsung is "Senior Software Engineer" from the beginning. Is it possible to move to FAANG or HFT afterward? I
- Microsoft CSE team Anyone can let me know how the cse team at microsoft really is?? I went through the behind the code blog sounds interesting jumping between technologies to serve amd solve real problems but it would be like jack of all trades master of none! Any idea. suggestions?? microsoft buddies help! Thanks
- Which is more Prestigious? Is an investment banking job at JP Morgan NYC more prestigious? a job at the Nasdaq (APAC) in Emerging Technology Trading/Investments/ Fin-Tech Research more prestigious? Or a job in Investment banking at Credit Agricole (APAC) more prestigious? How would you all rank the three?
- vote Are you willing to take the COVID-19 vaccine? Current coronavirus vaccines are the worlds-first approvals using mRNA technology. Messenger RNA vaccines do not contain the virus, so there’s LESS risk of the vaccination actually triggering COVID-19. But the TRADE-OFF is that the mRNA molecule is unstable. This is why some need to be stored at v
- $200B more in Tariffs I'm thrilled to see DJT be the first President to have the guts to stand up to the trade dumping and stealing of US technology. The Chinese have unfairly, unethically and illegally traded with and stolen from the USA for too long. Personally, I've put a strong preference on USA companies and where
- Recruiter spam from Quant trading startups? Is anyone else getting a bunch of recruiter spam from these firms? It's always: 1. Quant trading 2. Technology / data driven 3. Ex Google / Netflix / whatever Are these companies real? I assume there aren't really this many quant trading startups out there? what are these people trying to do? has
- Coinbase employees here? I love crypto, the technology, the trading, everything. I also have huge respect for Coinbase and I wish to work there one day, preferably before they IPO! Any Coinbase employees here that can help me with a referral and also share some info on the day-to-day work life? Feel free to DM me anytime!
- Future of algorithmic trading Now with data science tools, AutoML, Cloud technologies etc. are being commoditized, with millions of data scientists floating around from all over the world, do you think that algorithmic trading will get commoditized and the quant hedge funds will be in trouble?
- Deep Learning TC Is anyone on blind a deep learning researcher/scientist with a huge TC? (like in this nytimes article: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/19/technology/artificial-intelligence-salaries-openai.html) I am a DL scientist with 1 YOE after graduating from a top school. Would be helpful to hear about your b
- vote Should we buy less Chinese products? With huge trade imbalance, should be buy less Chinese products. U.S. Products like Google, YouTube and many more faces legal issues and were blocked several times. Technology is copied and no IP protection. Also employees are not treated well there.
- link robinhood steals from poor and gives to rich https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/technology/robinhood-risky-trading.html this is so bad. the company offers no advantage to users, has terrible tech, encourages users to take more risk when they shouldnt. the most telling line in this article is when they say how much more robinhood makes from ou
