Hello, I recently got an offer for entry level SWE at Bloomberg nyc. I’ve been given a Google form in which I can input my preference for departments I want to work in (1. Financial Analytics, 2. Trading and Analytics, 3. Market, Community, and AI, 4. Data, Internal, Web, and BLAW, 5. Infrastructure, or no preference) and client (1. external, 2. internal - business, 3. internal - engineering). I want to make a choice that would help me transition to low-latency development at an HFT later on in my career. Does the choice/preference matter? I’ve been leaning towards either Financial Analytics or Trading and Analytics just from their descriptions, but would appreciate actual Bloombergers(??) chiming in with their own experiences. As for client preference, I assume external clients would be more impactful/maybe more interesting rather than just focusing on interns tooling? But again, I’m probably totally wrong. Im new to all this swe stuff so would appreciate insight from those who are wiser than me aka everybody. Thanks! * also, looking for high-impact department, don’t mind working long hours, just want a fat bonus at the end of the year lmao TC: 185k YOE: 0
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If HFT is your goal Trading and Analytics. Especially things like Low latency and Exchange connectivity etc. I hope you mean HFT engineer and not quant roles
Thanks! Yeah, I meant hft engineer
Trading and analytics mostly. But recently hedge funds also reach out for Data and ML Engineers. So pick your poison. But dont think working in Bloomberg is gonna be an easy outlet to hft. Most of the top hfts either hire from college or target faang especially google and facebook at that.