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Anyone working at HFT firm?
How's work looks like? 
What skillsset required for day to day tasks?

Work at HFT

Software Engineer

Work at HFT- Grapevine

I'm a Python developer with over 4 years of experience in data engineering, and I'm interested in transitioning into a High-Frequency Trading (HFT) company. 

Can someone who has successfully made this transition provide guidance or advice on the steps to take and resources to utilize?

Thanks in advance!

HFT transition for working professional

Software Developer

Should I take a lower pay (25 lpa + unknown bonus) offer at a middle ranked hft rather then a chance at a higher pay (35-40 lpa) offer at a well known product company but where I may be given any tech domain?

Personally I really like low level coding and hft. Also have heard of someone getting 10 lakh bonus at that hft. I should also be able to switch to better paying HFTs in future. The offer also includes full time. 

The product based company only offers 6 month right now but even that stipend is more than twice of the hft.

HFT vs Product based offer

AMA about Algorithmic Trading

Quant Trader

Hi.

I'm a 9yr exp full stack engineer. Have done webdev mostly.
Currently earning around 30lpa
I want a job change because:
1. More money
2. Bored of webdev

I was looking around and HFT seemed interesting to me. I haven't done my full research on it, but from what little I have done, it seems like it is a very niche vertical requiring highly skilled folks and also we don't have HFT companies in India?

Anyways, I'm not fixated on HFT, that's just one avenue I explored.

I just want some better paying programming job where I can feel livelier. For eg., when I do complex DB queries for debugging and reports, or digging and parsing logs to find patterns and debugging, or optimizing some piece of code to squeeze more performance out of it.

I am fine with writing basic routine to make bucks but it's not fulfilling.

Please advise how to go about my career progression in a fulfilling way.

Seeking change. Looking at FinTech etc

I have had the privilege of getting into a Software Developer role straight out of college into an HFT firm. It's been 1 and a half years here.

I feel career paths are very different within HFT and any Web based company.
Here, my day to day job involves writing low latency stuff and also optimizing existing code.
But it always feels like I'm working on basic stuff using simple DS and simple algos. Just that the code writing speed also matters as we want to test the strategy live ASAP. The growth isn't much here so I'd probably switch. My concern also increases because I don't know if I can grow well in this role/ path.

My idea of a web based firm is that as a junior, I'd do the same simple stuff. But as I grow in a role, I'd start working on scaling systems efficiently. I think I would like to explore this and see how I like it.

But also, I like working in finance, pricing the markets, market making with the right strategies. So maybe I also want to be a Quant researcher or a  trader.

I know I'm young and probably overthinking this, you all must have too. I want to try to provide as much value as I can to any firm as I feel at the end of the day, my compensation would anyways be tied to it.
I just want to see how others would navigate this.
I'd probably like to get a masters degree soon. So, I'm also trying to figure out if I should do a masters in some quant field or a standard computer science degree.
So much confusion!

Thanks for any help!

Confused about a career path in HFT or Web.

Can anybody put some light either these apps like d11, mysmart11 etc are genuine and fairplay or use bots to suck users money?

Dream11 and Bots

Senior Consultant

Hey , I want to transition into hfts . I have decent experience in the trading system and will have more experience iyn next 1 year. At that point I wanna make the switch. I also have a good experience in c++. Can anyone suggest what I can do to increase my chances.

Switching to HFTs

So, I finally landed an offer with a product company as an SDE after months of struggle as a fresher. 

I hail from a circuital branch of the old IITs. Campus placements were difficult this year, so while I did interview at some good product companies (Microsoft, Amex, etc.), luck didn't favour me and I had tsettle up with a trading role with a low pay. (Other story why I decided to apply here in the first place)

Most of the news articles floating around fucked up placements at IITs are in fact true and I decided to try my hands at off-campus placements only to realise how difficult it is to get even your profile noticed (yes, even with a tier-1 college). 

So this is what I did which I believe can help freshers land a job in this difficult market:

1) Simply applying on LinkedIn esp. via easy apply won't work. There's literally thousands of applicants within a day for a job posting. So try to stand out among the crowd. 

2) Draft an excellent resume. Add things that you believe you can explain to the interviewer (doesn't matter if you've worked a lot on it, the interview is just an hour of you trying to make the interviewer believe the guy knows his stuff).

3) Know your strengths- are you good at DSA or are you good at dev. Startups would demand dev skills majorly, product companies would require DSA knowledge.

4) Start reaching out to people - very senior level people, HRs, Hiring Managers, people directly in touch with Hiring Managers, etc. Dm them on LinkedIn, cold email, and keep following up. In the case of early stage startups, directly reach out to the CTO/CEO. Sometimes, the jobs just don't get posted publicly. 

5) Don't lose hope. I've had days when I used to get a headache thinking of the future and days when I had multiple interviews on the same day. The market is just tough, you're good enough and things might take time, but you'll definitely make it through. 

I got interviews at a couple of HFTs, and a few good product companies and got an offer.

Finally landed an offer

Product Manager

I work as Desk Quant Analyst at an HFT. Exp - ~1 year. Task mostly involves some coding stuff in C++ and sometimes python. Heard a notion that such resume doesn't get picked by PBC hiring managers.How much of it is true?

Switching from HFT DQA role to PBC SDE

Welcome to Banking & Finance's Private Community

Quantative Researcher is a very niche job profile common in these industries. I wanted to understand what are the techincial skill sets required to pioneer in this line of industry.

1. What financial concepts are good to know for its day to day req. ex Voltaility Curves, Stochastic Finance, product knowledge like Options and Futures etc. ?
 
2. ML/DL are being applied more and more and given ML/DL is a vast field, what are the common fechniques which are applied more frequently.

3. How much does the role involves developing tools for the traders?

Prop Shops, HFTs and Hedge Funds

Quant Analyst

Welcome to Personal Finance's Private Community

Joined this app recently and saw that most of the data shared here is very outdated.
As someone who was actively interviewing for past few months, collating a list of highest paying companies in India for 5 yoe.

Tier-0 (1 cr+)
Prophecy.io 
Stripe 
Glean
Apollo.io 

Tier-1 (80 lpa+)
Coinbase 
Google 
Rippling 
Uber
LinkedIn 
Confluent 
Atlassian
Rubrik 
Clarisights

Tier - 2 (60 lpa+)
Airbnb
Microsoft 
Gojek
Swiggy 
Salesforce
Nutanix 
InMobi
Phonepe
Adobe
Intuit 
Oracle OCI
Indeed
Navi
Zeta

Tier - 3 (50 lpa+)
All decent MNCs (Walmart, Nvidia, Intel, Visa etc.)
All okayish startups (flipkart, myntra, ola, paytm etc.)

Note - 
Not included HFTs as they require different skillset as compared to conventional SWEs

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