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
Amazon SDE III 1st yr: 225k + 30k (stock) + 300k (sign-on) ~= 550k HRT (Hudson River Trading) 1st yr: 300k + 75k (sign-on) + 300k (bonus) = 675k any thoughts on HRT? I'm in bay area, and have no idea what/how it is. #amazon #hudsonrivertrading
i receieved GE rating from FB for 2020 return offer. making the jump to software engineering at hedge funds/trading. i have strong interviewing skills and will grind hard for any interview i can get. specifially, i am looking at: Citadel Hudson River Trading Jane Street Optiver Tower Research Capit...Read more
They pay truckloads and do well during market volatility. With Meta and Amazon stock taking a dive would this make HFT’s the main tier 1 companies at the moment? Startups seem too risky in terms of layoffs and “stable” companies like Google and Apple just don’t pay as much. Citadel, Jane Street, H...Read more
Been at Asana a few months, just feeling a bit limited in terms of scope. Nothing negative about the company at all, but there's a ton of internal tooling and I can definitely see technical growth stagnating here a bit. Looking to see if anything else is worth trying or whether to stay. I have Goog...Read more
E5 UIE at Meta, moving to New York and am intrigued by all the quant firms that have specific full stack/frontend roles. Jane Street, Citadel, Two Sigma, DE Shaw and Hudson River Trading, I see that there’s front end dedicated positions, especially at Citadel NXT/Two Sigma Front End/HRT Algo Web tea...Read more
I’m considering a move from Meta after 6 years and some of the most competitive comp seems to be in the HFT space (thinking Jane Street, Hudson River Trading, etc). I was informally talking to a recruiter who claimed to have connections to many of these companies and they basically ghosted me after...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It's long past time for us to move past the outdated FAANG acronym as there are literally dozens of companies consistently paying $300k+ in liquid comp to newly hired software engineers with 5 years of experience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
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
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...Read more
All of a sudden since Meta stock has hit a ATH in this market bubble, Meta is being simped for harder than any other company. And Metamates heads have clearly gotten inflated more than their TC as well. You’re seeing more and more brag posts masquerading as something else entirely. Or just comments ...Read more
Based solely on brand prestige + TC/stock upside. Tiers 1 and 1.5 are in the same relative range, but mainly separated based on stock upside which is unpredictable. Tier 0: Five Rings, HRT, Jane Street, Jump Trading Tier 0.5: Citadel, DE Shaw, Netflix Tier 1: Facebook, Two Sigma, Snap, Stripe, Pi...Read more
Most SWEs in tech have inflated TCs due to stock appreciation. What about SWEs at Jump, Citadel, Tower, HRT, Jane Street? Do their TCs benefit from the all time high stock market?
Fun day in stock market today. How does TC look like towards the end of day? 😄 Friends at Citadel, Jump, HRT, Jane etc.. congratulations on another $$$$ day for you guys 😏
Does anyone know the TC for python operations developer at HRT? I’ve heard SWE roles can be 700+, but I’m skeptical that python operations would be that high. Does anyone have realistic ranges? TC: 380 after stock dips
I want to try something new but not willing to take a pay cut. Would JS/HRT/any tech company make such an offer (without accounting for stock appreciation) for a SWE?` Also looking for referrals into any of them! #swe #compensation #tc
Got contacted by a headhunter for HRT and I’m not sure if I should respond or not. What is the TC / TC breakdown for a SWE with ~1 YOE (all at Google)? Current TC: $130k base, ~19.5% annual bonus, $30k/yr stock, $10k signing (if spread over 4 years). So TC is about $195k. Should be promoted in less...Read more
Those working in companies as a SWE like Jane Street, HRT, Citadels - do you have trade restrictions as part of your job? I do stock/options buy/sell once in a week (not $META unless it’s in a trading window). I wonder if fintech folks have any trade restrictions. What are these restrictions like?...Read more
Tier has been decided on basis of outside perception of a software engineer at a company plus hiring bar Tier 0: Renaissance Technologies, HRT, Discord, Jane Street Tier 1: Databricks, Google, Netflix, Airbnb, Tesla Autopilot, NVIDIA AI/ML, Stripe, Plaid, Nvidia Tier 2: Tiktok, Meta, Roblox, Pinter...Read more
Currently L4 at Google making 340k after stock appreciation, coming up on 5 yoe (1+ at Google) at the end of the year. TC over next couple years should stay around 300-320k assuming stock stays at the same price. I wanted blind’s opinion on whether it’s worth it to look outside for new opportunitie...Read more
Tier 0: Citadel, Jane Street, Jump Trading, HRT, RenTech, Albertson Tier 1: Apple, Google, Two Sigma, Netflix, Databricks, Snowflake, Airbnb, Tiktok, Meta, NVIDIA, Amazon Tier 2: Stripe, Snap, Plaid, Uber, Lyft, Datadog, Scale AI, Square, Slack, Robinhood, Roblox, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Dropbox, Pal...Read more