sweet spot in a great location
sweet spot in a great location
- Very smart, hard working, caring employees
- Lots of interesting technology (low latency, big scale or high uptime)
- Good technical autonomy (anything is on the table as long as the ROI is right)
- Motivated people can move around in the company to stay interested
- Decent work life balance (better than most of Wall St, or so I've heard)
- Many on-site amenities (big gym with lots of showers, car mechanic pickup)
- Great location just outside of Philadelphia (one mile off the beautiful Schuylkill river trail, perfect for bike commuting)
- Common sense approach to management (remoting in to stay home with a sick kid can be fine)
- Great compensation for the area
- Strong rational decision making culture
- Very flat structure (not much overhead)
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Compliance with financial regulations includes monitoring and recording all outside communications.
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The firm takes a conservative approach to intellectual property, where all code stays on-site and there are no open source contributions.
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Trading hours aren't flexible, as being in the office to support 9:30-4 trading is a priority.
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There are some management growing pains as the firm gets bigger.
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The structure is very flat, which means there is not much clear advancement.
- Keep looking for the best balance between what the rest of the world has to offer and the necessary trade-offs given the business
- Figure out a way to recognize career growth without having a huge management hierarchy
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Susquehanna International Group Interview Experiences
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They had an initial technical phone screening followed by a day long on site interview. The phone interview was fairly basic. Standard interview questions. The onsite interview was a bit depressing. Firstly their interview rooms are like interrogatio
Senior Software Developer
Day-long interview comprised of meetings with four teams of two and concluding with a session with the senior manager of the group. First part of the interview is a 60-minute test (which is impossible to complete) containing 12 coding problems. Rem
Senior Software Developer
Process is very slow and can be drawn out over multiple weeks given the number of applicants SIG interviews regularly. Initial interview is a 30 minute phone screen with an internal recruiter. She uses that information to determine for which positi
Senior Software Developer
Bala Cynwyd, PennsylvaniaNovember 1, 2012They had an initial technical phone screening followed by a day long on site interview. The phone interview was fairly basic. Standard interview questions. The onsite interview was a bit depressing. Firstly their interview rooms are like interrogatio
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Bala Cynwyd, PennsylvaniaAugust 16, 2015Day-long interview comprised of meetings with four teams of two and concluding with a session with the senior manager of the group. First part of the interview is a 60-minute test (which is impossible to complete) containing 12 coding problems. Rem
Senior Software Developer
United StatesApril 10, 2013Process is very slow and can be drawn out over multiple weeks given the number of applicants SIG interviews regularly. Initial interview is a 30 minute phone screen with an internal recruiter. She uses that information to determine for which positi
