Double-edged sword
Double-edged sword
A good learning experience with lots of hands-on projects. It can give you a good career in the HFT field in the long term.
It is obviously very well-paid despite being stressful.
Extremely stressful. Competitive internally. Lots of layoffs for employees with no career growth, especially those that have been around for longer than 3 years without a plan to become a senior developer. Direct feedback culture can be seen as toxic. Hire too much in the short term and now the growth does not cover the cost anymore. Be careful to join as a new grad.
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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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