> I'm just a regular dev, without any kind of attachment to Jane Street, in fact i'm a little wary of them, and would subscribe to Evan Czaplicki's understanding of the faustian bargain working there would involve.
replyMind going more into this, since you named a specific person? Did he make some prominent statement?
Jane Street's whole business is front running and arbitrage. They make money in a way that's extremely unfair to the point a whole new stock exchange (IEX) was designed to stop it, hurts both retail and institutional investors, and provides no useful service to society.
replyAll they've ever done for anyone but themselves is work on the OCaml ecosystem which is not exactly the biggest or most innovative.
It's a case study here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl1UQXgtepE I think the critique is implicit so YMMV. Just my interpretation.
replyYOu're selling your soul for $ and telling yourself that you aren't extracting rents or directly harming retail investors but are just helping the market with price discovery.
replyYeah, sorry, I didn't mean to imply anything nefarious on your part (or anyone else's part). It's just odd that a single financial firm keeps coming up.
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