Recently interviewed and received a pretty good SWE offer from Citadel for Risk Management (more/less). I'm trying to get a feel for what the work environment is like. Everything that I've found seems to be horror story after horror story (long hours, toxic culture), but I've also seen a whole lot of "it depends" on which group you're in (with some rather happy people commenting as such). Anyone currently at Citadel able to offer some advice or anecdotes (or at the very least describe the day-to-day)? I'm used to longer hours (currently work 10-8 or 10-9), not a huge deal, but I care more about the environment. Spoke with someone in my management chain and it seems that yes, Google does offer retention offers, but not sure if Google will come close or even offer much of anything to me (L4). For what it's worth, I have a very clear path to L5 (and further) and will be up for promo in 6 mo. But on the other hand, I have a pretty huge 4-year cliff coming up. For Googlers, does Google make retention offers? Current TC: > $300K Offer TC: > $500K (base + bonus) YoE: < 3 #citadel #citadelsecurities #citadeloffer #google #googleoffer #googlecompensation #googlecomp #googleoffernegotiation
How does one work 10-9? Isn't that more of living around work then? Genuinely curious
Poll it
push citadel, they can offer 600k
For 3 YOE? Is this a joke?
Are you from Google NY? Or will you have to move to New York City?
Offer is in Chicago, not Google NYC
"Risk Management" in finance is analogous to QA/automation in big tech in terms of respect, value add, stress, WLB etc. more than 500k is a very good offer to not accept. Take the offer and if you don't like it, go back to Google within a year without having to interview again.
Mm there are risk management systems in many teams.. any more detail on what you’re working on?
OP how did you get to that TC with < 3 YOE ? That’s impressive can I DM you ?
Very high levels of productivity TBH. And I made it very clear that I wouldn't leave except for an offer that was an absolute moonshot. You can DM, but I'm not sure what advice I have to offer... Like my LC count is ~3 (all hards).
OP, What tech stack do you currently work in google?
Go to Citadel, you’re already working hard and they will pay you better for it then Google. The people I know there that like getting shit done all like it there.
Does that 500k include sign on or is that just your base + bonus?
Just base + bonus (Chicago office)
Masters/PHD? That’s a really strong offer for < 3 YoE