Is levels.fyi wrong or is TC at 2S kind of low?? I’m seeing offers for 3 YOE mostly around 250-300k in HCOL. That seems relatively low for a quant hedge fund. Compare that to Snap offers that are around 350-400k with huge potential upside from the RSUs. Hell, even Amazon is giving 350k offers nowadays for 3 YOE. Is it because 2S is known to be a chill place with good wlb?
I don’t believe 350k to be the norm for 3 YOE in tech. I would say it is close to 280k ( Example Google L4, and hopefully they don’t downlevel), and amazon specifically has recently raised their pay by a lot to likely hire talent Blinders correct me if i misrepresented.
No definitely not the norm lol. But two sigma is a quant hedge fund and definitely not easy to get an offer at, so I expected higher TC from them, especially since it’s all cash so there’s no potential upside. I mean in general when we talk on Blind we are talking about the top percentile of offers lmaoo
No potential downside either
Two sigma does 300k+ easily for 3yoe. Levels is outdated TC 500k 4yoe
Thanks for sharing, that’s what I suspected. Levels.fyi seems to undershoot a lot of the time and not account for negotiation as well
Cop4shoot 4 yoe after a BS/Masters/PhD ? Insane comp, congrats! Are you in a quant research/dev role ?
Joined this year. Had strong interview perf and competing offers. Definitely not lowballed.
Is 350k at 2 YOE possible with competing offers? Is 200k base possible?
@iyqs58 was wondering if you knew about possible differences in interview process and/or TC for different roles like quantitative swe, regular swe, swe:modeling tools, and low latency cpp swe?? There seem to be so many openings lol
Joined recently with 0yoe for 300k TC. Return intern is even higher with 335k TC. Levels is outdated, yes.
Including sign on?
Wow that’s amazing. Congrats!
Joined this year. >400 TC including sign on with < 3yoe
What counter offers did you have + what level did you join at?
Thanks for sharing! Do you mind sharing what your base is?
I believe its outdated. Recently gotten a L2 offer with 2YOE, for total compensation $400K
What counter offers did you get? What’s the breakdown and the recurring vs. first year?
is that quant? or swe?
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Isn’t most of the tc from bonuses?
Yeah, but bonus is included in the levels.fyi submissions. Or is it not?
Most likely it is. No one is paying 300k bases even in hedge funds