Optiver Offer for SRE
Hey everyone, I got offered a position as a Site Reliability Engineer for Optiver in Chicago. They said the base salary is $100,000. Additionally, they have this "discretionary bonus policy" that is determined using a mixture of the employee performance, the firm performance, and other factors. They haven't quite outlined what that will look like yet, but I've heard this term "marbles" being thrown around. The thing about Optiver that was really appealing is that it's private, so equity as part of the compensation package seemed interesting, but that looks to be out of the question since the bonus is paid in cash. Does this offer look reasonable to you? The base salary is lower than what I'd be making if I stayed in my current role. And until I get more info on Optiver's bonus strategy, I'm unsure of how the bonuses will compare. Approx 2 YOE
What did you end up going with?
Late response but how was interview experience? What questions did they ask?
I'd love to hear about the interview as well if you have the time to share
Why is the base so much lower compared to SWE. Heard new grad SWE gets 150k
How many marbles?
I bet their bonus is nutty though. My friend in trading makes 130k base and his bonus this year was close to 100k
that's what I'm assuming as well. I don't believe the bonus will be anything more than 30k on ~avg~. give or take ☹️