Perks are good Comp is competitive People are smart and nice
Management and leadership are lacking No concrete career growth Arrogance and elitism in tech teams
I'm currently at Amazon as an L5 (TC: 255k) (2 YOE) and am moving to google in a couple of weeks as an L4 (TC: 280k). For context, at Amazon I worked on ML Infra using AWS CDK (typescript) and python code. At Google I'll be on the Chrome Infra team using GoLang and python code. I will be looking a...Read more
I am looking for a career change and while browsing through levels.fyi I stumbled across HRT salaries. Is HRT really paying 1.2-1.7M for 2-3 yoe engineer. I have previously interview there and seems doable. Am I just reading bad data or has the market moved so much. https://www.levels.fyi/company/H...Read more
Was looking on levels.fyi for Hudson River Trading and saw a bunch of salary submissions of over 1M TC for SWEs with around 3 years of experience. There's even one with 1.75M with 2 YOE. Almost all of these were submitted recently. https://www.levels.fyi/company/Hudson-River-Trading/salaries/Softwar...Read more
Hi, I have an internship offer with Hudson River Trading as a Systems Engineer with the offer being around 72$/hr (extremely high compared to the tech competition) which alone translates to around 150k a year for full time. In addition, I am being covered for my living expenses as well by being prov...Read more
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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.
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...Read more
Hey I was given the take home test for the Algo Web Engineer role at Hudson River trading. It seems like basically a web dev type role to make frontends for the other engineers. Should I expect anything near the salaries those devs get? Is this a good way to get my foot in the door for HFT? And how ...Read more
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
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
I always see high starting salaries for companies like Jane Street, citadel, Two sigma, HRT etc but never see how their salary changes each year. I would like to know your YOE, Salary and Bonus when your started working at the company, progression of your TC each year and also the best thing you li...Read more
I've seen one too many garbage company-ranking lists on this site. So here is the official list, methodology is based on senior swe salaries + prestige: Tier 0: HRT, Jane Street (Top Quant Firms) Tier 1: Google, Facebook, Netflix, Snap, Stripe, Robinhood, Pinterest, Airbnb, Two Sigma, Citadel, Dat...Read more
Have a full-time offer for trading and was wondering if anyone knew the typical salary progression, particularly compared to somewhere like Jane Street/HRT/Optiver. I can't seem to find much info beyond the first year, which is skewed by the signing bonus, and am trying to avoid getting baited. Muc...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
Post-IPO(600k+): Uber, Meta, Coinbase, Airbnb, Pinterest, Amazon, Snap, Roblox Pre-IPO(600k+): Stripe, Instacart, Databricks Who else am I missing? EDIT: Obviously I did not mention HFT/HF because they don't really hire you as "staff". But yes HRT, JS, PDT, Jump can get there easily TC: 475k y...Read more
I have friends at trading firms (Jane Street, HRT) making double my salary or friends that got promoted at startups quickly now making +380k. Should I feel grateful or feel like a failure? I know that I’m still making more money than 98% people my age but still it doesn’t feel like enough. Yoe: 3.5...Read more
Hi. I’m interviewing for HRT and I had a question on the TC. I am going to interview as a SWE with 4 YOE. I was trying to do some research on expected salary and I noticed that their bonuses have a vesting schedule. Can someone explain how that works? Also what would be my ball park total TC like 40...Read more
Anyone recently given the HRT Data Engineering Interview? What is the pattern, how long did it take, salary estimations? -- Their recruiter doesn't respond, it's simplex communication with them. This is a new role in HRT, so less help on the internet.
Base salary is starting to look pretty similar across companies. Is there a tier list comparing company stock grant refreshers (or bonuses) for SWEs? Let’s maybe take the baseline as a senior level engineer. Bonus for E5 at Meta was ~200K (175K stock + 30K cash bonus) Tier 1: Meta, JSC, HRT, 2S T...Read more
I am curious. Hypothetically if you had 2 offers as a Software Engineer from a quant firm (HRT, Jane Street, Two Sigma, etc..) or FAANG (Google, Meta, Microsoft, etc...) Which would you choose given the prestige, salaries, WLB, the type of work done there, etc...?