Jump Trading reviews

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.

If you're not in one of the top teams, you're pretty much a second-class citizen starved of resources. Even the top teams now are huge, and it might be very difficult to make a difference. I've left years ago, and it's a really bad sign that pretty much all really talented people I admired have also left. Personally, I faced tremendous resistance to new ideas. Mind you, this was not management's direct fault, but rather part of my team's culture. Maybe at other teams it was better. There were some truly toxic people there as well, but they'all gone by now. Management should have fired these people much sooner than they did. Unless you're in a top team, you will not be allowed to trade the most profitable markets, such as crypto and China. Overall support for the compute cluster and operations is also degraded. These are all just annoying headwinds... it's almost like they do not really want you to succeed. It seems that political skills are far more important than technical skills nowadays at Jump. There is definitely a political upper class at Jump. If you can somehow manage this and are skilled at constantly stroking people's fragile egos, you might do well there. On an even sadder note - some people who have recently joined Jump expressed some disappointment at the technical abilities of people at the top. Politics Skills over Technical Skills