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Two Sigma (and others) have been poaching senior level google talent at a quicker and quicker clip. Very exciting to watch the exodus happen!

• samfisher83 4y ago
  Hedge funds/hf trading companies can't compete with monopolies in printing money. I wonder how they are getting all these people.
  • bombcar 4y ago
    Google has to try to hire and keep satisfied thousands upon thousands of engineers of various talent levels. A smaller team just has to pay more than that for a few tens, and perhaps offer more interesting work besides.
  • NeverFade 4y ago
    Google hasn't kept up with industry pay. As a senior Google engineer, you can get much better pay in other firms.
  • spoonjim 4y ago
    High performing hedge funds make way more money per employee than Google.
  • dekhn 4y ago
    Snowflake and Databricks also hoover up a bunch of engineers, snowflake in particular extracted a large number of extremely senior folks. I assume they match base comp, offer equity, and then give people a lot more freedom than they would have at BigCo.
  • kyawzazaw 4y ago
    I don't know what you mean by this. Are you saying trading companies aren't profitable enough?