Two Sigma is notoriously tightlipped about everything. This guy's short post about interning there in 2015 is probably the most I've even seen about working there: https://evjang.com/2015/08/17/internship-experiences.html

In terms of "tightlippness", they don't come close to TGS Mgmt. All of their employees can't even list their employment at TGS Mgmt on LinkedIn.

I worked at a firm who had the same policy in 2014.

It was more common than you may have realized.

Honestly, most boutique, government-involved security consulting firms have similar requirements. Given how much of tech is outsourced these days, obscurity is often the only line of defense some organisations have.

So smart stock trading. Cool. The best and brightest are off solving math problems to make bank in the stock market.

Can’t speak for two sigma but I work in a similar company. They are generally only open enough to hire people, there is a huge competitive advantage in sharing as little as possible.

Lots of finance firms have a bunch of interesting problems, from scaling to security and many are getting better at treating engineers well. But usually it comes down to the fact they pay really well.

What kind of engineering culture do they have? Can people continue down the technical route without needing to jump into management?

> This article made me _really_ curious what manner of awesomeness is going on at Two Sigma

This is probably a major reason he’s being hired.

I haven’t experienced too much of this phenomenon but “famous” OSS folks get coddled and showered with money by many companies in hopes of attracting talent.

And to be fair, its not the worst strategy. Instead of some silly values document they pay real engineers and usually give them a ton of freedom.

One of the few places that will pay competitive to GOOG.

GOOG is no longer known for high pay. Given the same level, even Meta has exceeded Google pay for a long time now. That's not to mention hedge funds like Two Sigma or Citadel.

*Much better than Google. Two Sigma is one of the top paying companies: https://www.levels.fyi/leaderboard/Software-Engineer/Entry-L...

They pay _interns_ $70 per hour

Depends on the role, in general they’re not going to blow Google out of the water.

They typically can for Individual Contributors that are software engineers

Looking at their careers postings, it seems spf13 will have to spend some time refreshing his C++ and Python skills.

Cool = Money

I'm really curious about that also