Considering two internship offers: Bridgewater Investment Logic Engineer: - The role is combination of software engineering, data science, and investment fundamentals - Salary: 75/hr + housing - Pros: Good talent pool, learn a lot about culture - Cons: Second class compared to investment analysts, many people exit to pure data science, bad location, lots of people get fired fulltime after a year if they dont make the cut Akuna quant research - Salary: 85/hr + housing - Pros: More technical work that is better regarded by pure prop trading places, location in boston at 15 person office - Cons: Among prop trading firms, Akuna is fairly low tier. Less varied experience than bwater. What do i DO??? My Career goals: total compensation + keeping doors open to do interesting things (vague i know, but i dont like the idea of being stuck doing exact same thing forever)
Akuna, no question
I don't know about Akuna but Bidgewater sucks
Why do you say that - any insight?
akuna matata... well for real. if you are familiar with bridgewater they are really strange...so its a very weird culture, they believe is blunt truth etc... prob not a great place to start career or pivot into
he knows.. I was shocked when I was going through their interview process. One of the company I would disregard at any / every level. I am pre sure, you will find a whole bunch of republicans there.. many of em old AF to make life miserable
lol, interview process is so bizarre, well everything is bizarre with them
Bridgewater’s got a lot of interesting stories about it... being a bit cult-ish, and you have to be extremely comfortable with non-filtered honesty. Not for everyone. Also... not sure if this is applicable for this role, but I read they have some pretty stringent non-compete contracts.
No one will care if Akuna isn’t “top tier.” If you’re interested in prop it’ll still help land you interviews almost anywhere.
If you asked this question 5 years ago, I would say Bridgewater hands down. The past couple of years have seen dismal returns however, so if you join you are essentially taking a risk that they'll be back in the black in a few years time.
Thank you for being radically transparent. Pain + Reflection = Progress
Bruh
"lots of people get fired fulltime after a year if they dont make the cut" -- honesty this also happens here (and maybe across the whole industry idk;), people choose to leave or are let leave.
but Hakuna Matata is suppose to mean land of no worries and trouble ?
Not like that at JS
I’d say Bridgewater. I had a poor experience interviewing with Akuna in the past couple of months. Their recruiting team was a mess and their interviewers sounded overworked and depressed
How long did the interviewers take to get back to you at each stage? I found it to be unbelievably slow
Yep, I would send availability and it would take them a week to respond with something like “oops resend for next week actually”
Akuna because lion king
Audibly laughed out loud. Thanks for that.