Facebook To Open Engineering Office In NYC

Re:Facebook To Open Engineering Office In NYC by rdouble on Friday December 02, 2011 @03:27PM (#3305544)

The tech companies already do have offers high enough to be competitive with finance. On another note, I do not know why working at Facebook would be intrinsically more rewarding than working at Jane Street. Finally, the finance skill set is not quite the same as what is needed at Facebook. They would be more likely competing with startup companies and Google NYC.

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Re:Facebook To Open Engineering Office In NYC by natesm on Friday December 02, 2011 @03:48PM (#3305612)

Isn't Jane Street a little... unique? Most banks don't write blogs about OCaml, right?

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Re:Facebook To Open Engineering Office In NYC by rayiner on Friday December 02, 2011 @10:39PM (#3306819)

> On another note, I do not know why working at Facebook would be intrinsically more rewarding than working at Jane Street.

Because the former actually makes a useful product?

> Finally, the finance skill set is not quite the same as what is needed at Facebook.

At least at the entry level, the hiring is for credentials not so much skill set. There is a decent number of math/cs majors who end up in finance (not even necessarily something like computational finance, just state up IB or trading) instead of engineering.

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Re:Facebook To Open Engineering Office In NYC by gfodor on Friday December 02, 2011 @10:35PM (#3306814)

I'm speaking from the anecdotal evidence that most engineers I know in finance are pretty miserable sans the fact they make barrels of money.

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Re:Facebook To Open Engineering Office In NYC by pelemele on Saturday December 03, 2011 @01:12AM (#3307075)

Probably you never talked to real finance technology guys.

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Re:Facebook To Open Engineering Office In NYC by gujk on Saturday December 03, 2011 @03:09AM (#3307265)

Or true Scotsmen.

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