Life balance is good for a financial company but varies largely from team to team
Very silo with little to use and central team. Lot of repeats
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
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
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
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
First day on Blind. Looks like an awesome community. http://venturebeat.com/2016/06/23/twilio-stock-closes-at-28-53-jumping-more-than-90-in-first-day-of-trading/ We appreciate all your support!
I'm trying to evaluate two new grad offers: Hedge fund - Position: Quantitative Developer (in research team) TC: $170k base + performance bonus Facebook - Position: E3 (entry-level) software engineer TC: $124k base + $40k stock + bonus What are the career progressions like for quant dev? If I d...Read more
I’m starting the interview process for a DS/QR role at Jump Trading. The role seems to be very focused on using ML and Stats for business strategy, not a typical QR role, so I’m hoping to get some insight into the three rounds of interviews. Any tips on preparation? #quant #quantitativeresearcher #...Read more
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
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
So I am in between changing my job, trying for promotion L5 to L6 , stock trading, learning new skills , and yeah also trying to invest in real estate. How do you guys keep your focus on ? I keeps on jumping between one thing to another without any substantial progress in one topic. I guess am not ...Read more
I have been thinking long-term what to do after Amazon Background: been with Amazon for almost 10 yrs as system dev engineer doing lots of system design primarily using AWS and doing lots of politics n doc writing, no real technical challenging work. On the side doing long-term stock investing and ...Read more
Pltr round 2. 8/4 20c. Entry is 0.5 plan to exit at .6 Double dipped DIS 8/4 90c too. Entry .6, exit 0.7 Exit at .55. it was moving too slow. Pltr 8/4 20c. My entry is .58 Pltr exit at .7 I got in some Disney 90c at .6 and exited at .72 didn't have much conviction but a quick 20% return is not ...Read more
I was curious about how many SWEs jump into equity mkts for trading instead of investing. Do any of you folks have actually made any profit? I've worked as a quant researcher in the past and from my experience as well as my company head's perspective it's almost impossible to make money via trading...Read more
Amazon stock jumped 16% after 4 PM EST, *before* the earnings report. This isn't a stupid 🚀 cheerleading post, but I'm genuinely curious, why was there a surge specifically after hours but before the earnings report was released? What information got out that led to the surge? Or if there isn't any...Read more
First off, let's skip the jokes about the Googler not knowing how something like stock/ipo's work, kay? I work at Google, stock IS money in my world. lmao So, I have the opportunity to jump ship to Databricks. Signficant salary bump, large amount tied up in stock. While I know it isn't official, Da...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
Guys, I have had a few Forex, Stock and Bitcoin traders contact me and claiming they will return as much as $200-$300 everyday on my investments. How legit are these people/claims? One even came back claiming a guaranteed return of 15% on my investments. This is too good to be true (for me it is). I...Read more
L5 SWE, TC $450k TL;DR I went in big on HOOD post-IPO and am currently down ~50%, within range of $100k unrealized loss. How I got here: I interviewed and got an offer there in 2018 and almost chose HOOD over GOOG but they wouldn't give me enough equity (I would have been employee #215 and was eit...Read more
I have an offer from Facebook and an offer from a Series D startup. The roles are similar, in the product analytics area. Would love to hear your advice which one to take. In my opinion, the startup offer is higher (by about $30K per year considering the current valuation of equity). But Facebook h...Read more
This changes every year so in this current market, I’m thinking cash is king and HFT’s dominate rn. I’m not going to consider the super small prop trading firms because quite frankly they only take geniuses and I know my own limits. Are Jane Street/HRT/CitSec/Jump still the kings in terms of TC and...Read more