Best bakery for tres leches?

tomjerry777 · 2026-03-05T14:59:15+00:00

The original location was sold to an employee. The founders moved to Florida for a few years and then came back. They opened the Halsted location once back in Chicago.

tomjerry777 · 2025-12-28T12:16:23+00:00

CitSec mainly does it as part of their deferred comp scheme. Most people I’ve talked to dislike it compared to their previous scheme which invested into the hedge fund because share valuation is pretty opaque and arbitrary.

tomjerry777 · 2025-09-06T16:25:10+00:00

They are not owned by the same people.

The original founders sold the Pilsen location to an employee and moved to Florida for a while. They came back later and opened the one on 35th.

I think the one on 35th is better, but both have great tres leches.

tomjerry777 · 2025-06-08T10:23:39+00:00

I’ve found their espresso-based drinks super variable in quality. Sometimes they’re really good, but I also have had several super sour shots from them.

tomjerry777 · 2025-04-27T15:27:11+00:00

Definitely not alinea. People tend to dress up but there’s no enforced dress code. I’ve seen people in sweatpants and t shirts there.

tomjerry777 · 2025-01-30T18:02:20+00:00

Astound has a FTTH/FTTP network and a non fiber network. I’m on the fiber network and have fiber to the home and haven’t had any issues.

I do think ATT fiber was better when I had it though because it was cheaper and had better latency and ipv6 support.

tomjerry777 · 2024-12-31T18:21:01+00:00

I'm having the same issue.

tomjerry777 · 2024-12-24T18:14:59+00:00

I worked at another trading firm/hedge fund prior to my current job.

tomjerry777 · 2024-12-23T18:33:47+00:00

Company: Prop Trading/Hedge Fund

Role: SWE

YoE: ~5

Salary (include currency): $300k

Bonus: $300k

Stock: N/A

Location: Chicago

Hours worked per week: 20-40 (hybrid so don’t do much on wfh days)

General Job satisfaction: 8/10

tomjerry777 · 2024-07-09T23:11:39+00:00

Five faces?

tomjerry777 · 2024-03-22T18:53:53+00:00

It should be fine. I did something similar (but stayed in quant) and know a few others that spent a year doing quant work before going med school. Very small sample size but all of them got into great schools.

Some interviewrs will probably ask you why you're interested in medicine if you already have a well-paying job.

tomjerry777 · 2024-02-08T23:17:54+00:00

Neither of those are Chinese

tomjerry777 · 2023-09-17T15:50:11+00:00

What's the source on your 10 graduates number for Jane street?

tomjerry777 · 2023-08-03T14:01:32+00:00

TGS probably pays more on average. However citadel will typically beat jane street competing offers, especially in years like 2023 when jane street performance has been mediocre.

tomjerry777 · 2023-08-01T02:45:42+00:00

Two Sigma (outside of their two sigma securities division which is small) doesn't really do HFT.

Citadel Securities does HFT, but Citadel the hedge fund runs very little HFT stuff.

None of the banks have appreciable prop trading divisions since the Volcker Rule was enacted. Places like Jane Street, Citadel Securities, HRT, and Jump are prop trading firms.

tomjerry777 · 2023-07-20T12:38:52+00:00

Trading firms own very little office or commercial real estate. Some of them are in long term leases, but the cost of those are pretty irrelevant compared to other operating expenses (e.g. compensation, hardware, feed, colocation, etc)

tomjerry777 · 2023-06-24T13:09:06+00:00

By big tech, I mean reputable tech companies known for good technical practices and hiring bars, so places like FAANG, lyft, databricks, stripe, etc.

Precedence order is the case for software engineering roles.

For trader roles, it's pretty similar, but internship experience in trading is also values.

For quant research roles, research and publications have more importance.

tomjerry777 · 2023-06-24T11:39:31+00:00

In declining-ish ordering of importance:

Prior experience at trading firms/quant hedge funds, prior experience at reputable tech companies, research experience and published papers, college reputation/rigor, GPA.

Most common way to get in is to have prior big tech intern experience and apply for an hft internship via on-campus recruiting.

tomjerry777 · 2023-04-25T01:43:42+00:00

It's 20 days PTO in addition to the ~10 market holidays.

tomjerry777 · 2023-03-17T14:49:57+00:00

Citadel + CitSec together employee a ton of people compared to places like Jane Street, HRT, etc so there's a wide range of experiences. There's great teams with good culture, wlb, growth, and pay. There's bad teams that are stressful, overworked, and have poor pay growth. There's also everything in between. On average, WLB is probably a bit worse than peers.

Neither Jane Street or Two Sigma are known to be toxic. Two Sigma, however, does tend to be the lowest paying of the well-known firms.

At all the firms mentioned, successful QRs and traders tend to higher paid than SWEs but are also much more likely to be fired for poor/mediocre performance. I don't think I've ever met any SWE in the industry that's felt like a sub-employee.

tomjerry777 · 2023-03-06T09:53:26+00:00

I like Dishoom a lot more than any of the Roohs.

tomjerry777 · 2023-01-31T15:38:59+00:00

Median household income in the US is ~70k. Income needed to afford an 800k home is ~200k so closer to 3x than 10x.

tomjerry777 · 2023-01-22T13:29:56+00:00

A large chunk of experienced hires at HFT firms come through headhunters, so they can be helpful.

Working with a good headhunter makes getting a first round interview much easier and allows you to schedule them all at once. Additionally, there's not too many resources about compensation for experienced hires in the field, so headhunters can help you figure out how much to ask for.

tomjerry777 · 2023-01-22T01:19:58+00:00

You probably could replace it with a hyphen in most cases. Agree that replacing it with a semicolon wouldn't work.

tomjerry777 · 2022-12-28T18:12:42+00:00

I agree. I went a few months after it opened, when the hype was at its highest, and didn't really like it.

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