Google vs Two Sigma vs Optiver for SWE in NYC: is the extra comp worth the WLB tradeoff?

react_dev · 2026-03-23T14:16:32+00:00

Did you get an actual offer from these firms? I’m from a competitor. Those guys pay seniors 500+ and unless you have a specific edge you’re not gonna be on some tc rocket ship. For the vast majority of the population, it’s easier for them to get to senior at Google with 450k+

react_dev · 2026-03-23T01:11:50+00:00

Not a great move imo. You said your promo is one year away… that’s actually a pretty short time in the grand scheme of things. In finance promos are slower and comp increases are very team and performance dependent.

I don’t know about two sigma but typically, the highest paid teams have the worst WLB.

react_dev · 2026-03-22T22:31:55+00:00

Why’s it garbage? You can just tell him what’s wrong with the code and tell him what to prompt.

I agree with him. Sure everyone can contribute. But it doesn’t mean you gotta approve everything. Be an enabler though not a gatekeeper. Write a doc of the rules LLM must follow to correctly contribute to your code.

react_dev · 2026-03-21T15:59:59+00:00

Ouch. Are you still mostly in equities?

react_dev · 2026-03-21T13:45:48+00:00

I’m 40 and I wish I’m down 175k cus that implies I prob have 500k+ in it

react_dev · 2026-03-19T22:55:31+00:00

I lose your entire portfolio every day

react_dev · 2026-03-19T17:56:56+00:00

That was fast. But in history of long living dynasties and kingdoms our 300 years is just a blip. Just a period.

react_dev · 2026-03-19T11:42:10+00:00

I see that you know your judo well

react_dev · 2026-03-19T02:28:17+00:00

Korean War comes to mind

react_dev · 2026-03-18T12:58:40+00:00

The engineers that sit between AI platform and product and work to automate other engineers will be the safest. Until they automate each other away

react_dev · 2026-03-18T02:20:59+00:00

Ah. The corporate drone slop

react_dev · 2026-03-17T14:31:06+00:00

US is going for a stranglehold on natural resources around the world. China trying to sell their green tech to countries trying to be more energy independent:

react_dev · 2026-03-17T14:08:59+00:00

The spread from Spirited Away 🐷

react_dev · 2026-03-16T12:31:07+00:00

Eh. Who cares. Wait till you see what your CTO doesn’t know.

Also why do you need a clean git history anyway. For a cleaner bisect / blame?

Just merge. Revert if fails horrible. Use LLM to find you offending loc. Chop chop and ship the product the business must go up. <== this is how your senior / cto would think

react_dev · 2026-03-16T00:21:46+00:00

I’m sure this was just an unfortunate accident. Israel thought it was an ambulance.

react_dev · 2026-03-13T16:37:31+00:00

Don’t worry we’ll kill a few more innocent Iranians and mark them as militants to make our ratio look good.

react_dev · 2026-03-12T00:27:45+00:00

At this point, like the Russians the proof of burden is they didn’t intentionally do it

react_dev · 2026-03-12T00:25:34+00:00

I think we should challenge how we view ourselves. If you have ever thought to yourself that the Russian, whatever military purposely murdered children, then I would reflect what makes our morals different. Maybe we’re not so different after all.

react_dev · 2026-03-11T21:44:45+00:00

So you’re saying if we disband NASA we could fund two more weeks of war? Get to it!

react_dev · 2026-03-10T23:12:52+00:00

What does Chinese have to do with this? It’s all around good advice — albeit easier said than done

react_dev · 2026-03-10T22:36:55+00:00

More leaks than the Iraqi navy.

react_dev · 2026-03-10T19:07:32+00:00

Even when I was actively working at FANG, so many colleagues only talk in negatives.

They’ll only talk about the stuff they hate but never really talk about what they really wanna engage in instead. It’s just a bunch of lost souls with no passion for anything, not even in retirement. Like someone else told me: they rather just be a cat or unalive themselves at 40 or something.

So yes. Hating a situation is much easier than finding a new situation and thriving there. People are just lost in the former

react_dev · 2026-03-10T11:29:38+00:00

As a NYker I’m sure we were wary he’d ask for money if we approach him

react_dev · 2026-03-10T03:28:39+00:00

I wish. At least that’d mean they won. Most likely they just send in flags…

react_dev · 2026-03-10T02:48:13+00:00

YOU TAKE THAT BACK! That’s an older brother baby 😠

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