I'll be honest, this post smells like a whole bunch of BS. I feel like this guy just googled "HFT job requirements" and put them in sentence form in a very trifling manner. The fact that he said "not many people can handle that level of stress well" tells me he just read some article about HFT and posted it. The fact is that millions of people have equally (if not more) stressful jobs than HFT programmers... Doctors, Special Forces, Lawyers, CEOs, Fledging Start-Up founders. Also, if you're some hotshot HFT programmer, why are you spending your Saturday night in NYC posting a very broad overview of a general HFT programmer's responsibilities... pretty sure if this guy was legit, he would be out courting women to the nicest restaurants in NYC
Even if this guy really is a HFT programmer, I don't care to ask him anything even though I am fascinated by HFT. I prefer not feed these kind of pompous jackasses exactly what they want.
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I'll be honest, this post smells like a whole bunch of BS. I feel like this guy just googled "HFT job requirements" and put them in sentence form in a very trifling manner. The fact that he said "not many people can handle that level of stress well" tells me he just read some article about HFT and posted it. The fact is that millions of people have equally (if not more) stressful jobs than HFT programmers... Doctors, Special Forces, Lawyers, CEOs, Fledging Start-Up founders. Also, if you're some hotshot HFT programmer, why are you spending your Saturday night in NYC posting a very broad overview of a general HFT programmer's responsibilities... pretty sure if this guy was legit, he would be out courting women to the nicest restaurants in NYC Even if this guy really is a HFT programmer, I don't care to ask him anything even though I am fascinated by HFT. I prefer not feed these kind of pompous jackasses exactly what they want.