How to prepare for the interviews at HFT companies?
I'm a full stack engineer and I decided I'm up for another challenge so I'd like to give it a try and interview at HFT companies for infrastructure roles so I took a look at glassdoor and it seems like I need to be able to answer the questions about C++, OS, and networks. Disclaimer: I agree it's a better long term strategy to switch to a different team within Google that uses C++ first and then try to interview at these companies but I'd like to give it a try still. For CPP: I used to do competitve programming, so I think I'll need to have a look at Effective Modern C++ and look up some advanced concepts but more or less it should be OK. For OS: reading http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/ seems like a good choice. It might be a good idea to go through the exercises of https://cs423-uiuc.github.io/spring20/ or https://student.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~cs350/F20/. There're a few questions I'd like to ask: 1. What would you recommend to code / read to learn more about the networks? That's the area I'm concerned about the most. I tried reading some books here and there but they all seemed to be out of touch. 2. Did I miss something I should be preparing for? Is there anything I can improve in my preparation plan? 3. For the people who do interviews for these roles: what're the biggest red flags / most obvious mistakes that you can see when interviewing the candidates? Thanks! #hudsonrivertrading #citadelsecurities #jumptrading #janestreetcapital
Is Computer Systems a programmers prespective a good read for HFT infrastructure
I was also curious about this, sad that this thread didn’t gain any traction. I’ve heard decent things about the networking course on MIT OCW but can’t speak for it myself. I have also heard that csapp is really good but it’s 1k pages. Some firms also ask system design and basic stats q’s. DM me OP as I’m also starting to prep for HFT
Hello do they expect us to know multithreading too .