NVIDIA: (Santa Clara) 175k base, 220k stock/4 TC: 230k High frequency trading firm (can’t name it, NYC) : 200k base, bonus anywhere from 25%-100% TC range: 250-400k 6 years work experience, top 4 CS/EE bachelors + masters. My current TC at a startup is 175k cash + fake money worth 150k per year...Read more
Hi Team, I currently have an offer from BBG as SSE and wondering what’s the career path looks like to end up at HFTs firms from BBG. Looks like on LinkedIn, many ex-BBGs have moved to HFTs. How soon you should start applying to these HFTs after u join BBG? Currently my team at BBG primarily uses ...Read more
HFT trade stock markets traditionally and i understand some are in crypto. Are there other markets where they are active? Eg market making for carbon certificates and other non-fungible or non uniform products? Or commodities downstream products. #hft
Noob question- I see a lot of SWEs and quants in Hedge Funds and HFTs. I was told they are operationally similar but fundamentally different. Can somebody ELI5 the difference in what they aim to accomplish, examples of firms in each and what a quant researcher does in both? TC:240k (post stock cra...Read more
New grad swe offers from both, interned at both. Can’t reveal HFT firm. Offer 1 - HFT Location: Chicago TC: ~350k USD (including 100k sign on and estimated performance bonus) Offer 2 - Google Location: Canada Base: 109k CAD Stock: 130k USD 38/32/20/10 Sign on: 50k CAD (Plus 15% target bonus) Fir...Read more
I am struggling to decide between my top three offers, which are for Meta, a Hedge Fund (think Citadel, Jane Street, Two Sigma, etc.) and a London based HFT firm (you'll likely know the name but want to protect my privacy). The offers are: Meta (E5): TC ~£203k (109, $420/4 years, 15% bonus), plus £...Read more
Quant roles and other direct pnl making roles in hfts and hedge funds pay much more than SDE. Anyone have first or second hand experience of being able to career shift from normal SDE role to these roles? Even better if you aren't from top 5 IITs FYI for anyone who doesn't know starting base+bonu...Read more
I will be interviewing for HFT firms like JS, Citadel soon for SWE role and wanted to check if someone can share what type of questions were asked in algo round, and was algo round harder than a typical faang algo round? I could not find much when I looked around. #tech #interview #hft #janestreet...Read more
I've read TC at Citadel Securities (and HFT in general) is structured differently than in FAANG. In particular you get somewhat light base compensation and a bonus which is higher than the base salary itself (and no stock). How is it decided how much of the bonus I actually get? Or in other words, ...Read more
I'm trying to figure out whether it's worth going through HFT (or similar trading firms) interviews for someone at a staff level at FAANGs, i.e. whether the TC is likely to be higher (compared to staff, or senior staff even). I know it can be variable, so everyone says, but from scouring Blind posts...Read more
[India] Do trading firms require you to declare stock trading accounts, also if you are using Zerodha as broker, need to transfer holdings into another account? #finance #hft #tradingtech #trading #morganstanley #goldmansachs
Hi team, I am currently trying to get up to speed with C++ by spending my time off the work contributing to some of the open source C++ projects picked up from talks like CppCon and various blogs. My short term career goal is to end up at those HFTs or prop shops in a year or two. I am wondering i...Read more
#hardware Google offer: TC - 1.25 Cr Base - 45 Performance: 6.75 (15% of base) Equity - 210k usd JB - 20L TC at current company- 75L Base - 42 Performance - 8 Equity - 10L per year Retention bonus - 15 HFT firm Offer - TC - 1.2 Cr+ Base - 55 Bonus - 55+ JB - 10 Stealth mode startup in hardware: ...Read more
Meta TC is 450K, about half of that being stock. Say same-ish eng level (E5) and work location of NY. Not Citadel Seurities but vanilla Citadel btw. One way I'm thinking about this: If 50~60hr work week is the norm at Citadel and 40~50 at Meta, a 20% difference, then 30%+ would result in a signfica...Read more
Background: New Grad (B.S.) with 5+ previous internships Highly value: Culture/WLB >; Growth/Upside >; Benefits I have narrowed down my options to these 3 and having a hard time choosing. Remote offers are for current location. Note: These are maxed offers after negotiations. For new grad, Sq
Blind is full of people from big tech, I see very few people talking about hedge funds/HFT/prop trading firms. Is anyone else here a quant dev/SWE in finance just looking at the hiring freezes and stock plummets in Silicon Valley while eating popcorn and awaiting bonus day after their fund has made...Read more
1 YOE + 2 internships + MS AI/ML + Systems Current position is 30 hrs/week fully remote. Startup with great talent from FAANG, early stage, very capital intensive industry (semiconductor design). Team is friendly and I have great mentorship. I also get $25K yearly worth of stock options. Is the h...Read more
Excluding HFT, I've already been rejected by most of them 😭 Asking because markets have clearly changed, Amazon used to pay $400k for SDE2s with 2 YOE. Now we are laying off, mass PIPing, rescinding offers, and actively targeting those same high TC employees for PIP. I look around and see that Goo...Read more
Think about renege a hft firm that I don't like due to personal reasons and leave for a blockchain startup with 50% salary cut. I am a new grad. Sorry I deliberately give minimum info trying to hide my identity. All my number below is rounded to add noise. Also the startup is actually not a random o...Read more
Currently working in a startup, got an offer from a crypto HFT company with a 5% increment on base salary with discretionary bonus, where I currently have some stock options that worths maybe ~10k per year. The new role is based on C++ which I am more interested than my current Unity/C# thingy. But ...Read more