[jselysianeagle]

> Entirely possible that the quantity of trading jobs available isn't nearly as high as something like MS though.

Yes, exactly. Other companies like Jane Street definitely exist in the finance space and pay really well but collectively hire far fewer engineers than FAANG + FAANG-like companies do. The thing I like about them though is that most of the time their comp is all cash (salary + bonus) so you don't have to wait around for anything to vest before you can move on, if you so desire.

[tombert]

Yeah, that's what people tell me, though the Jane Street interview is pretty tough; I've interviewed with them three times, and also been declined three times...so maybe I'm disproving my own point here.

[laurels-marts]

How were the interviews like?

[tombert]

I mean, they were honestly fairly typical interviews, just a few pretty tough CS problems.

In one I remember one problem asked me to implement a hashmap, which wasn’t too hard, and then the second one had to do with some sort of latency prediction thing, where cleanups had to be done after certain numbers of milliseconds. I am afraid I cannot remember the details, but I remember that the second problem was quite difficult.

I suspect I could do much better now (or at least I hope I would), but I have not interviewed for them in like five years.