Top pay, bonuses have been excellent the past 5+ years. Good office benefits (lunch, drinks). Many of intelligent people. High growth company.
It’s become a lot more corporate in the past few years, with red tape and many approvals needed for projects. Expect to work a lot of weekends if you’re on the infrastructure side.
Hypothetically, which new grad SWE offer would you take out of: Optiver (Chi), Nuro (SF), Stripe, and Palantir (NY)? Factors to consider: - Growth - Learning opportunities - Equity/bonus appreciation over time - TC (I'd be willing to take a lower FY TC if it means setting me up for later) - Want to...Read more
Amazon Seattle SWE 116.1K salary 37K first yr sign on 23K second yr sign on 86K rsu (5/15/40/40) 7K relocation TC without stock growth or refreshers: 164.4/152/150.5/150.5 Optiver Chicago Data Science 105K salary 10k sign on 15k first year bonus (prorated) then switch to marble system (profit shar...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
I just got laid off and it felt so out of the blue. Thankfully I’m a citizen because just found out my coworker who’s on Visa has 60 days to look for a job and it’s tough to hear that. I’m emerging full stack. Lots of React/Redux experience, GraphQL, Python, SQL, and so on. Any referrals for mid l...Read more
Hi! I'm about to graduate, and I have these offers: Optiver ($170k): 100 base + 30 signon + 30 bonus + 10 relo - Meh WLB (9am - 6pm) basically - essentially stuck with one/two programming languages in a specific niche (low latency trading) - can make $200k TC in around 2 years (profit sharing quick...Read more
I’m fresh out of school and joining a FAANG in a month or so, hoping to learn a lot and become a better engineer. However, a big side passion of mine is learning about and working with the stock market. I’d love to try to get into the established prop shops in order to combine my software skills wit...Read more
data scientist product analytics (85k atlassian base and 100k in stock over 4 years) optiver performance researcher (170k base) my goal is that i want to end up building my own startup one day. im in final round interviews for both for grad roles. which one would you guys choose? i think i want t...Read more
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
Hi For myself * worked at a startup from seed to series C (2 years) * worked at another startup from series D to series E (2 years) * work at Google ( 1year) I have some input to compare working for big tech vs startups I personally think big tech is better for the following reasons: 1. Startup ...Read more
Hello Everyone, I have previously worked at Accenture as a .Net Developer for about 10 months and am interested in pursuing my career in a product company. I would like to apply for SDE-1 roles at any product company or a mid size start up . Any leads or referrals would help a lot. I've joined crio...Read more