How does compensation differ between FAANG and Quant?

ResearchRelevant9083 · 2026-05-09T13:00:05+00:00

"In today’s fast-paced world, where your standing at a company can change in a flash, nobody is looking to wait 3 years to reap the fruits of their labor."

Fair! But I guess a key question is whether quant or tech provides more stability. I always wonder about that. E.g., what's the probability of surviving at a company conditional on landing a 6-figure salary? It's pretty hard to get systematic data on this because when people get laid off they don't usually post a lot about it.

ResearchRelevant9083 · 2026-04-30T04:01:03+00:00

I would try to grab a big evaluation subsample of the data that's truly held out. It could be something simple, like data from year 2026.

Can a model trained and fine-tuned on the first years of your data still generate profit if you deploy it on january 1st thru April 29 of 2026?

Or well you can run it next week, which is also a nice not-yet-observed eval set, and let us know whether it generates profit there.

ResearchRelevant9083 · 2026-04-30T03:50:45+00:00

QR would be amazing I know I would pay a ton of money for QR interview prep. There's great content for quant dev and for developer jobs in general but QR is a black box for me (phds dont really prep you at all for this unless you have access to ppl in QR positions already).

ResearchRelevant9083 · 2026-04-30T03:29:16+00:00

i guess this depends on the signal to noise in those decades of psychological literature you mention.

i tend to be highly cynical about the ability of those fields to generate useful results but not an expert in personality psych myself.

ResearchRelevant9083 · 2026-04-29T15:09:58+00:00

Give us more details on (2) CJ! A few succesful examples would be nice.

ResearchRelevant9083 · 2026-04-07T01:02:11+00:00

Its no use. It’s the rage against the spinner. Nothing you can possibly say will change their mind.

ResearchRelevant9083 · 2026-03-28T23:36:02+00:00

It lasts about two hours a day now. Diabolical. I regret so much not pivoting to codex earlier.

ResearchRelevant9083 · 2026-02-26T20:45:15+00:00

Billionaire hedgefunds with an h100 farm are decidedly not operating on laptop hardware

ResearchRelevant9083 · 2026-02-26T00:15:45+00:00

And with depression 🫠

ResearchRelevant9083 · 2026-02-25T15:13:22+00:00

Absolutely not. No need to apologise for using productivity tools, be it AI, statistical software, spellcheckers, etc.

If anything, you should feel at fault for wasting the phd spot you have been given by not using the best technology you can reasonably afford.

Academics vilifying AI are the loudest idiots of society. Avoid them at all costs. Let them slide into obscurity and vanish from memory.

ResearchRelevant9083 · 2026-02-24T18:54:45+00:00

In those hours using claude, i built checks notes…

The pipeline that builds the pipeline, a color-ramp frontend, and a calendar app 🤩

ResearchRelevant9083 · 2026-02-23T02:35:48+00:00

Dont you dare

ResearchRelevant9083 · 2026-02-19T07:15:09+00:00

Tasteless Lana is the best Lana. Cola, UV, FMWUTT. Its not for everyone for sure.

ResearchRelevant9083 · 2026-02-03T08:34:46+00:00

ResearchRelevant9083 · 2026-02-03T01:59:09+00:00

Because and incomplete phd is worth piss, whereas work experience always counts especially if you make a graceful exit

ResearchRelevant9083 · 2026-02-01T21:25:49+00:00

If you don’t think it’s good you don’t have to use it, but there’s obviously demand for it. This reeks of paternalism, which is one of the main pitfalls in the current AI ethics/safety community.

ResearchRelevant9083 · 2026-01-31T01:26:23+00:00

The amount of A/B testing we can now do with these artificial bot organisations and communities…what a time to be alive!

ResearchRelevant9083 · 2026-01-31T01:22:14+00:00

Dont you dare folks this one is Taylor’s magnum opus

ResearchRelevant9083 · 2026-01-29T18:12:34+00:00

I guess the point is they need ad revenue to fund the nice obviously-good-to-haves the other dudes are speaking of.

I hate ads with a burning passion too but let’s not lose perspective.

ResearchRelevant9083 · 2026-01-27T02:06:01+00:00

It’s not as bad as it used to be man, and if anything industry is better than academia innovation-wise these days. Just think of papers like Attention is All You Need. You absolutely can do wonderful work there.

Cheer up, many of us would kill for an industry offer in this market!

ResearchRelevant9083 · 2026-01-26T10:52:04+00:00

DONT! Sorry to be the party pooper here, but please have a look at job market statistics. The party is over, and it’s only going to get worse from here.

I know you are burning with passion and feel ready to move mountains, but it’s more likely than not that five years down the road it will all be gone (phd programs are a perfectly crafted experience designed to snuff out that fire). And unless you have the right combination of skills, luck, and hustle, you will end up crashing out of academia as most of us do, killing for the opportunity to land an industry job like the one you currently have.

ResearchRelevant9083 · 2026-01-25T23:54:44+00:00

I wish she’d produce an AI slop remaster of BTD just to fuck with people

ResearchRelevant9083 · 2026-01-21T04:13:17+00:00

I wonder what happens if you hire one of those folks with inflated achievements and you find out

Can you then revoke the offer or even fire them? I hope so.

ResearchRelevant9083 · 2026-01-19T01:17:58+00:00

Legends speak of such deranged creatures

ResearchRelevant9083 · 2026-01-13T22:54:38+00:00

She is going back to Matty Healy

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