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As a side question, can I ask how much experience you have other than your work at said startup? Within a year I'm going to have to make the choice between goin
by gragas 10y ago
As a side question, can I ask how much experience you have other than your work at said startup? Within a year I'm going to have to make the choice between going the tradition route in tech or joining a high-frequency prop shop. The starting offer seems to be around 130-150k base with 20-80k bonus at the end of the first year (which is implied to scale heavily after the first year, unless things go really poorly).
If you were given the choice, which route would you take?
- toocool 10y agoI have about 7 years of full time experience on my resume, being in most places a functioning individual contributor. In the startup I have been able to explore other skills such as management and interaction with other parts of the business, all while being highly technical. In your shoes, I don't know what I would choose, I don't know what to expect from the financial world. Money surely sounds nice. As a further data point: if the interviews at Google/FB/... were not so crazy, and if I were given some sort of choice on the area to work on at those companies, I would have definitely tried the interview with them as well, but what I liked about these hedge funds is that I was interviewing for a specific role and so the interview process was pretty much focused around that, without anyone asking me to code an rb tree on a whiteboard.