Jump Trading reviews

I have not been here so long but it feels bloated and maybe struggling with so much tech debt and too many people. It is surprising how much process is manual and not right tool for job.

1. very brutal competitions between trading teams. Trading teams trade similar products and use similar technologies. Talking between teams needs to very careful. 2. generally boring but demanding daily tasks. For a period of time, you will feel every thing is new. After a while, it's easy to get bored about daily tasks. To improve competition, it's involved with shaving off a few CPU instructions in the fast path or improving the prediction accuracies by a few percent. 3. less opportunities for newcomers. The firm had a very good foundation of software infrastructures. It left very little room to improve. so new projects are more related to bug fixes or tiny features improvements. 4. waste of top talents. After a few years, besides the bank accounts, those top talents spent their life in pretty meaningless optimizations or tiny works. No real impacts are generated to the external world. In the long run, these feelings will come back and make you doubt about your work even life. 5. The firm favors new graduates from top universities too much. They only held campus interviews in five or six ivy league or top tech universities. Sometimes, it will make regular joes uncomfortable working with so many top school talents.