How relevant will my experience be as a developer in HFT firm (hard-core C++ dev) at FAANG companies? Will FAANG even consider hiring me? Edit: Added abbreviation for HFT since someone commented they didn't know the term.
Ultra low latency can probably apply to infra work at large tech companies like Google and Facebook. Mainly, where performance matters. In addition to latency, they would probably look for scalability. If your experience covers these 2, then I would say go for it.
They don't care as long as you pass interview process.
Hiring manager round will care
Cloud teams will love you!
Care to elaborate?
When you say HFT, it means that you are transacting the data and executing the commands without any latency. I gave order to buy share at 10.23 and I am expecting system to execute it immediately. Not at 10.25 or 10.27. Customers expect same kind of interaction with cloud as well. I am backing up data in cloud and purging the same in my production application. Now, user want to view the data which is backed up in the cloud or may be run some analytics. Here the transaction and execution is real time.
Amen brother ! A fellow finance brethren making a move to tech ! Grace be upon you
Personally, I found HFT so much more fullfilling than my FAANG company. Unfortunately I still need to wait out the non compete so Im jumping ship to network startup that does similar work until I can get back into the industry. Idk about others, but I found HFT pays more to.
I'm thinking about making the move from FANG to HFT for this reason. HFT sounds like a lot more learning opportunity compared to iterating on full stack CRUD apps at snail's pace at G. What did you like about HFT?
I liked everything about hft more. The technology and problems are a lot harder and you better have a good grasp on cpu architecture, compiler theory and math. And you will make much more money doing it. The only thing is that you might have smartest man in the room syndrome which can suck.
Why are you leaving HFT?
Wtf is HFT?
High frequency trading