Compensation, benefits, work, smart people, used to be very collaborative, now occasionally collaborative. Making Markets is fun and interesting to study and learn about. In earlier days prioritizing work life balance was done well as it was needed for ambitious workers.
Silos, secrecy, lack of transparency, no distribution of common tools leading to tools redundancy, project ideation easily and often are shot down, egos, work life balance has gotten worse over the years.
Great work life balance in my department. You get a lot of extra perks
Jane is not growing as a company which makes career growth hard and layoffs frequent
Search for Jane Street on Google and there are dozens of reviews from the past couple weeks talking about how jane street lost their shirts recently, and have resorted to manipulating penny stocks to get their footing back. Anyone know if there is any validity to this? Is this just a bunch of sore...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
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
Can anyone provide reference for me (L5 at Amazon) at below companies? Netflix Dropbox Plaid Two sigma Airbnb Jane Street Thanks in advance ๐ซก TC: 302k with stock surge YOE: 5
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?
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
My onsite at FB London is scheduled in a couple of weeks time. I'm wondering which other companies can match or exceed FB's offers so that I don't get lowballed. Based on my research Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Spotify, Bloomberg and most startups don't pay as much as FB. Jane Street, Two Sigma, Cita...Read more
They pay truckloads and do well during market volatility. With Meta and Amazon stock taking a dive would this make HFTโs the main tier 1 companies at the moment? Startups seem too risky in terms of layoffs and โstableโ companies like Google and Apple just donโt pay as much. Citadel, Jane Street, H...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 itโs in a trading window). I wonder if fintech folks have any trade restrictions. What are these restrictions like?...Read more
Markets are staggering, crypto is falling, job market is still hot some how. Where should I go to get 400-500k TC or better? Remote positions only please. I'm thinking I'll apply to Jane street, google, Uber, meta. Yoe: 5 TC as of today's hood stock price: 335k Highest TC this year: 750k COL: low ...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
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
I want to learn about algorithmic trading. How much of the information online is up to date/state of the art? Do any of the funds who do algorithmic trading share how they do it online or keep it all to themselves? Can anyone who works at the big funds (Citadel, TwoSigma, Jane street, etc..) give m...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
Bored at Amazon, team is trash, L6 promo is at least 18mo. Even then with TT and crazy stock growth not worth much. What companies are worth jumping to? What places will give senior opportunity (real ones, not LinkedIn/Bloomberg โseniorโ)? Interested in best growth, less so about immediate TC - ei...Read more
Iโm 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
I work in ML. I have a PhD (not fully ML focused) and several publications. I was thinking of switching from Tech to Finance. I have 1 YOE and I'm looking for roles and companies that can pay >; 350K. I don't care about WLB. Can you please suggest a few roles and companies? I was thinking Citadel
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 thereโs front end dedicated positions, especially at Citadel NXT/Two Sigma Front End/HRT Algo Web tea...Read more
I have about 2YOE and currently have offers for Software Engineer 2/Associate from 1. Uber -> Amsterdam 2. JPMC -> London 3. GS -> London Base, stock and benefits at Uber are much higher than the other two and JPMC is not giving any stock. But my final goal is to move to a place like Citadel