Comment by piker
2 days ago
> Well I don’t really know what to work on next
Let me help you: work on figuring out how to spend the millions of dollars every year Jane Street will pay you to clock in. I've heard private aviation is expensive, for example. :)
A lot of places claim they want to hire extremely smart autists, and some do. But these types of employees are incredibly hard to manage. Imagine herding cats. So if you don't invest a lot of effort in building an environment to let this person cook, go down the right rabbit holes and not rub others the wrong way, a person like this is a huge liability to the org.
A lot of companies who claim to want highly intelligent and autonomous engineers by revealed preference actually want glorified slightly above average ticket pushers.
At least by the looks of it, Jane Street appears to be an odd one to genuinely value competence.
There are a lot of incredibly smart non-autists. Or maybe slightly autistic, but enough awareness of the real world that they can be managed.
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I can be a glorified slightly above average ticket pusher, where do I sign up for a million per year job?!
> A lot of companies who claim to want highly intelligent and autonomous engineers by revealed preference actually want glorified slightly above average ticket pushers.
No. FAANG companies and quant firms want people who are independent and self-directed, not people who need to be told what to do.
Please, explain how you determined this person was an "extremely smart autist".
I took it as a compliment!
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Google says "Jane Street has global office locations in New York, London, Hong Kong, Singapore, Amsterdam, and Chicago" so if you're really at a loss where to spend your money, I would recommend searching for yacht dealerships in those cities. I'm sure it won't be a problem anymore.
> Let me help you: work on figuring out how to spend the millions of dollars every year Jane Street will pay you to clock in.
Does Jane Street really pay that much? Of course 7 figures is possible, but these median comps seem lower than FAANG (and with much higher workload): https://www.levels.fyi/companies/jane-street/salaries/softwa...