Bridgewater Engineering Leadership TC?
Just got approached by a recruiter for engineering leadership opportunities at Bridgewater a hedge fund with 160 billion assets under management. I’ve read on here and elsewhere that you can make a lot of money at hedge funds but also that tech is an afterthought or second class citizen. what compensation range do you think is possible for an engineering director at Bridgewater? TC: 507k YoE: 11
Noob question: What is hedge fund infact? I am also approached by this company yesterday although I didn't replied
Financial fund that trades with its own money or money of it's investors. It's tech for big money to make more money.
If asking don’t bother applying.
You better have firewalls and physical security guarding your behind if you’re in the reporting chain for Igor 😁 That guy is THE nightmare for software vendor executives, just imagine what he’s like for employees
Igor who?
That would be a hard pass for me. FB is far better of an environment
Worked there briefly, admittedly not in Engineering. Run away. That place is horrible, really glad I left, was a miserable culture and experience.
What’s horrible about it? How is the compensation?
Comp wasnt bad for what I was doing (trade execution), was I think around $110k or so, this was about 10 years ago. Was just this weird cult-like place where people would tell on each other with this thing called the "issue log." I don't want to get too deep for anonymity's sake, but I can tell you that of the people I worked with there, by about 2 or 3 years after I left, all had quit or gotten pushed out. Just not a good place to work. I like Dalio's overall philosophy, just don't think his idea if radical transparency scales to an organization as big as Bridgewater has become.
No compensation is worth working there. Dalio is insane.
I mean unless you’re working for him Directly and the fund pays awesome and provides challenging, interesting work, then who cares?
No the culture is really awful. "Radical transparency" and you're constantly being second guessed and challenged for your decisions. It's not healthy.