Looking to apply to HF/HFT. Am I missing any other high paying ones? - PDT Partners - Optiver - Aquatic - Headlands - Jane Street - Citadel - Two Sigma - Hudson River Trading - Five Rings - Chicago Trading Company - Tower Research Capital - Jump Trading - Virtu Financials - DRW - Radix Trading - DE Shaw - IMC Financial Markets - RenTech - SIG - Old Mission Capital - TGS yoe: 6 TC: 400k #tech #hedgefund
SIG.
Added thanks!
Meta can you expand?
Five Rings, Chicago Trading company.
Yes thank you!!
A lot of yours aren't HFT or trading firms, but market makers btw
Like which ones?
Do you know the difference between HFT and market makers? If not, you might as well add the market makers to your list.
IMC, Radix, SIG I assume not high paying for SWE? Any others?
Radix is pretty high paying for SWE, they outbid even HRT core, algo dev offers. We cross 500k, sometimes even a lot more than that, recurring for good Sr. talent on the front office side. We have been interviewing and hiring a good number of folks from Meta and everyone was happy with their numbers.
Optiver
Btw why do you want to work there ?
Many reasons. Interest in finance, high paying jobs(not beating around the bush about it), and you will be surrounded by some of the smartest in the industry.
I think you will need to be in office by 8 PM top ?
Optiver is better than most of them
Added!
Missing Headlands, they will outbid pretty much everyone. Aquatic is pretty good too. Missing TGS. They are just as good, if not better, than RenTech. Insanely hard to get into. Old Mission Capital. No idea about their experienced hire numbers. If this list is not just US specific and you’re counting London based places too then Quadrature and XTX definitely have to make it as well.
These are great thanks!
do you think headlands would outbid jane street/HRT/Citadel?
Any of these offer remote?
Probably not. I miss the office so hope not for the ones I interview
Most of them are prop traders. Hedge fund = use investor's capital. Prop trading = use company capital.
Thank you for explaining it. I guess HF/HFT is what I should change it to
Depends, you can also change it to 'trading', HFT or something else. Depends a bit on what you are searching for, not all tradering firms are for example HFT's and banks also participate in some kind of trading activities. There are a lot of lists online so unless you are asking for blind specific stuff, like how it is as a software engineer at those firms, I don't really see why you would make a list here.