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by vostok 10y ago
In my experience, age is measured from when you finished your education and not from when you were born.
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by vostok 10y ago
I think it's pretty clear once you know that there's an answer. This kind of metagame is pretty useful on contests. You have something that looks like e^(-x^2) and you know that you need to multiply it by x to get something with a
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by vostok 10y ago
Sent you an email. I'm not going to reveal anything proprietary, but happy to answer any general questions.
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by vostok 10y ago
Can you respond to this message with an email address or put one in your profile? Feel free to use a temporary email address, but I won't say anything controversial anyway as I'm not interested in losing my job.
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by vostok 10y ago
I believe most banks pay tech interns the same as trading interns. I've heard that Capital One pays tech interns the most out of the big banks, but I have no personal experience with that one.
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by vostok 10y ago
Is your top trading firm a bank? If not, I am confused which part of my comment is "not true at all". Also, $120k pro-rated is about right for what top tech companies are paying so it sounds like you just happened to not get those
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by vostok 10y ago
It's pretty well known that top tech companies pay more than top banks. SWE interns at top tech companies will make more than trading interns at top banks and entry-level SWEs at top tech companies will make more than entry-level trade
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by vostok 10y ago
> Oh the fun of sharing a Word doc between 10 people, each one with a slight different version that messes the formats so badly (like that one guy who uses OpenOffice) and constantly making phone calls to ask others to close the document
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by vostok 10y ago
> Ethernet port (ideally 10 GBit/s instead of 1 GBit/s if possible) There are several vendors that make thunderbolt network adapters that support 10GbE SFPs. I think supporting this within the laptop would increase the laptop&#
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by vostok 10y ago
Thanks! I didn't think we've made much progress, but it was worth a shot. I'm on a few Google Groups, Mailman, Majordomo, etc. lists and I can honestly say that it doesn't make a huge difference to me. I will agree that
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by vostok 10y ago
I'm not too up to date on this. What is your preferred alternative to Google Groups? Mailman?
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by vostok 10y ago
And, at least in the US, a fairly low price tag at that.
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by vostok 10y ago
The fact that computers are committing multiple trades in a fraction of second to make tiny profits does not mean that they are screwing you out of every 10th of a cent. In fact, my intuition is that you would be worse off without them beca
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by vostok 10y ago
> You can think of investment bankers as salespeople. I agree. That's exactly how I think of bankers. You actually have the same problem come up with other sales people too. If I'm buying a $100 million product from you, I&#x27
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by vostok 10y ago
I think we're discussing trading here. I'm not prepared to give anyone financial advice, but I'm probably not personally a huge fan of retail bankers, investment bankers, wealth management, expensive mutual funds, and so on.
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by vostok 10y ago
> making sure I and every other little investor get screwed for every 10th of a cent so that a few investors at the top who already have loads of money can have more. Do you have a reference for this? It runs counter to my intuition.
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by vostok 10y ago
Thank you for clarifying. You're talking about retail speculators getting "stopped out". Do you have a reference showing that is happening with increasing frequency due to HFTs? It runs counter to my intuition because HFTs le
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by vostok 10y ago
> I believe they keep that fund private because the risk factors must be through the roof. And frankly, they don't need that external money to make a ton of more money. I think the real reason is that the main fund can't manage
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by vostok 10y ago
> I genuinely want to know what you think the good you did for the world is in investment/trading. My job has literally been to ensure that, out of every invested dollar, more money goes to the investment and less money goes to trad
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by vostok 10y ago
I feel sad that you think this about finance. I believe I've done a lot of good for the world and have gotten the opportunity to work with some very smart people along the way. I first started working in finance because it was one of t
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by vostok 10y ago
As someone who works in the industry I've found that analogies are distinctly unhelpful. That's not really unique to finance [0]. Can you explain what you mean by "literally wiggles them out"? I cannot say that I have ob
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by vostok 10y ago
I like that he's wearing an ARML shirt in at least two of those videos.
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by vostok 10y ago
I would really like to see some hard numbers. I know the salaries are public, but I wonder if there are bonuses that aren't included and benefits such as housing/car/food/etc. I'm sure some are contractors rather th
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by vostok 10y ago
My favorite part of this is that rewards for spying seems to be a $3k per month house in the Bronx. Sounds like you're better off working for Facebook.
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by vostok 10y ago
So first, why it's important for me that we're able to trade continuously. Suppose I'm an HFT who trades the S&P 500 ETF. I put out a buy order at 217.75 and a sell order at 217.76. If a trader comes in an buys the ETF fr
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by vostok 10y ago
Even as a liberal I think there's actually something to this idea. You can see it with things like the financial transaction tax proposals that are clearly meant to hurt nerdy HFTs rather than affect banks. I think part of it is that n
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by vostok 10y ago
It is a requirement of my country's regulators that I ask for my employer's approval before I do any other work for compensation.
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by vostok 10y ago
In my industry bonuses are as reliable as public company RSUs. To my knowledge, there is less public information on RSU grants and bonuses so I am puzzled by your last sentence.
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by vostok 10y ago
I know how much I am paid, how much some of my coworkers are paid, how much my company pays new grads, and what the average salary on Glassdoor is for my company. The average is lower than what new grads got in 2016. On top of the incorrect
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by vostok 10y ago
That's part of it. People with higher salaries don't contribute for privacy reasons. They're also missing bonus/equity data for many firms.

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