Starting the interview process with several firms and companies. All non-quant SWE; all in NYC. - D.E. Shaw - Jane Street - HRT - Citadel - Facebook - Amazon - Goldman Sachs Can't find as many interview experiences/advice or TC info on the smaller firms (D.E. Shaw, HRT). Typical LC? Mainly med/hards? Typical TC and structure for ~3 yoe? Any and all information is welcome :) thanks! TC: 220k; 3 yoe @D.E. Shaw @Jane Street @HRT (Hudson River Trading) @Citadel @Facebook @Amazon @Goldman Sachs
Wow really what I am wondering is how you sync’d up your interviews so well. Teach me your ways
Mainly chalk it up to all the recruiters who I told "not now". Then when I eventually want to start interviewing I reply them all back at once.
Amazon is an odd ball on this list. Why Amazon and not Google?
Do you have onsites scheduled for all these? Citadel and Jane Street will be give the highest offers among all these for a plain SWE position. Would be awesome to hear an update on how it turns out!
So far: - rejected by JS and DESco. it's always tough to gauge your own interview performance. I will say that I was woefully unprepared for DES; and the interviewer was exceptionally impressive. - scheduled 2nd HRT phone screen - waiting for Citadel phone screen results - waiting for Goldman after phone screen + call with team lead - have virtual onsite with Amazon scheduled - FB recruiter has ghosted me since informing me several weeks ago that they've frozen hiring for E4's
Were all the interviews in general, particular the financial firms, what you expected? How much leetcode, cpp, os, systems, design questions were asked?
Go finance, dont ever have to deal with RSUs again.
I'd rather deal with monthly RSUs instead of a mystery bonus once per year
How did you get interviews from all these places? Just online apps?
All from external recruiters reaching out Copy paste from my reply above: "Mainly chalk it up to all the recruiters who I told "not now". Then when I eventually want to start interviewing I reply them all back at once."
Are you interviewing for E4 for Facebook?
Recruiter has ghosted me since informing me they have froze hiring E4's several weeks ago
How did the interviews go ? Did you apply through referral at HRT ?
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For citadel, I was asked LC medium and hards, no C++, lots of OS and few PL concepts. Most coding questions took slight mathematical turn towards the end. Roughly speaking older programmers focused on OS and LC medium, younger on LC hard and Maths.
Thanks! What is PL?
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