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HFT and finance are still mostly in-office. If you join as a front-office dev on a trading team, chances are you will not be remote much and people will be in
by caffeine 5y ago
HFT and finance are still mostly in-office. If you join as a front-office dev on a trading team, chances are you will not be remote much and people will be in the office trading.
- conformist 5y agoGenerally true, but working from home is also becoming increasingly common even for front office roles (at least in the UK, not sure how that generalises).
- aix1 5y agoAnd also front-office dev isn't everybody's cup of tea (though I am sure this can be said of any type of role). (Source: worked in finance/trading for 10+ years before jumping ship.)
- alecbz 5y agoI've never been too interested in working for HFT/traditional finance, but depending on how office trends continue I might change my mind (especially living in NYC, though I'm also considering moving).
- caffeine 5y agoChicago, London and Singapore are also good places, although nowadays there are funds everywhere (Boston, SF, Miami). This is a wild overgeneralisation but in descending order of fun levels/friendliness of HFT teams it goes Chicago, London, Singapore, NYC. Seems to hold across most HFTs I have met/worked at. Not sure about hedge funds or other finance roles. Edit: Crypto HFT firms also abound but they are generally more remote-friendly than TradFi (the latter have regulators that need you to have an office and stuff).