Smart Opportunities, Short-term Focus
Smart Opportunities, Short-term Focus
Very good expertise in options market making and position taking. They always have more ideas to make money than they have dev resources to throw at them. As a good developer with a little bit of understanding of the business side, there are heaps of opportunities to do well.
The company has gotten very big in recent years and has been losing its initial start-up feel.
The performance evaluation for developers often tends to prioritize shorter-term deliveries. Big projects that span multiple review cycles and take a while to show their value tend to get underrewarded. This creates the wrong incentives among developers.
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Initially, I received a HackerRank link for an online assessment round, which contained two easy questions. After two to three days, I got an email from the recruiter for a general discussion about salary expectations. Following that, a virtual ons
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United StatesFebruary 1, 2025I spoke with an engineer in Austin regarding the expansion of their New York office and equities trading. He spent most of the time asking about my work history and technical questions. He allocated about 10 minutes at the end for a fairly simple c
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IndiaNovember 5, 2024Highly negative experience, quite negative. I applied online and they performed resume screening. Then, they sent a HackerRank OA with medium-difficulty questions. As a good programmer, I cleared it. After that, they scheduled a short 20-minute HR
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IndiaMay 19, 2024Initially, I received a HackerRank link for an online assessment round, which contained two easy questions. After two to three days, I got an email from the recruiter for a general discussion about salary expectations. Following that, a virtual ons
