getco

prob if you have a pulse, bc w/o programming u wont be doing shiet there

I would be really happy if people familiar with the company respond..

Not similar to DRW's process in the slightest. Do you even know what you are looking for? Those are 2 completely different companies with little overlap.

Hey come on guys, help a brother out. These prop trading firms are very hush hush so it's not like he can google it easily. Just throw him a bone.

I'd be interested in hearing some good responses myself. :)

He's already received the correct advice: without amazing programming experience he'll have no shot.

1.) Nobody familiar with the company is going to talk about it, for fear of Tierney and Schuler's black security vans and Illuminati memberships. I interviewed with them a long time ago and I still occasionally wind up with dead fish in my bed and odd vehicles tailing me- with drivers wearing pocket protectors and thick rimmed glasses- while I'm riding up 9-W on the CBR. ;-)

2.) Aside from a few specialist operations, they're largely an algo shop. If you somehow manage to get hired at GETCO without knowing how to program, you will likely be working for a programmer or technologist.

3.) It's tough to get a job there straight out of undergrad or even grad school without prior work experience. And that's for CS and Comp. E majors with amazing backgrounds. In 2007, they did not take a single student out of any undergraduate program in the country as a full-time hire, though they did have a few interns from Illinois over the summer.

4.) There is a very specific cultural fit that they're looking for. Not going to go into any more detail on that- I promised myself that this was the last time I had to explain fish oil on my wet comforter to my dry cleaner.

Quit being lazy as hell and do a search. And you have very little chance of getting an interview without a strong CS or math background (usually some combination of both). DRW is involved in a fairly different array of products and trading. You aren't going to see any large number of Getco folks on the floor of the Merc, but you'll see plenty of people from DRW.

Ok here's the only question that I am curious about but people here just post bs stuff : What does getco ask in the interviews? Is it like Jane street or Drw where you go through brain teasers or mental math?

I am aware that Drw and getco are different companies.. I am very familiar with Drw more than anyone in this forum and they have all sorts of operations, market making on the floor is one of them.. I also met lot of people from getco and I know people who were hired wo programming background..

When I also meant limited background I still have a cs bacground as good as an average cs major, it is just that I don't want to be the software developper who builds the software.

Has anyone here interviewed with them?

More than anybody on this forum? Not sure about that, but maaaybe the same.

If you know people who work there, you should ask them. I've heard it is a lot like Jump's, which is a combination of brain teasers/math questions/CS problem solving.

I've heard they only recruit from MIT, Stanford and Carnegie Mellon. If you aren't a CS genius then good luck.