Did PEAK6 blow out?

TheDudeofLife · Aug 10, 2007

anyone know anything about this rumor?

nitro · Aug 10, 2007

I have no idea, but two days ago their HR called me to try and hire me. It would seem that is contradictory to what you are saying.

nitro

jim c · Aug 10, 2007

I heard the same rumor about peak6. no idea if its true. someone said they saw a headline on reuters. jim

bidask · Aug 10, 2007

mind if i ask how they found you?

pm me if you like.

Quote from nitro:

I have no idea, but two days ago their HR called me to try and hire me. It would seem that is contradictory to what you are saying.

nitro

ASusilovic · Aug 10, 2007

Quote from nitro:

I have no idea, but two days ago their HR called me to try and hire me. It would seem that is contradictory to what you are saying.

nitro

So what did you answer related to the offer , if I may ask ? Would be good to know somebody from this board is working within PEAK6...

By the way, related to the thread => tried to get some infos by calling them directly, but still nobody responsible in yet...

Hooked2000 · Aug 10, 2007

Quote from jim c:

I heard the same rumor about peak6. no idea if its true. someone said they saw a headline on reuters. jim

Could you post link please? Did a search couldnt find it.

jim c · Aug 10, 2007

Quote from Hooked2000:

Could you post link please? Did a search couldnt find it.

total rumor...i couldnt find a link either. jim

atticus · Aug 10, 2007

Peak6 rumors surface every time we see a lot of vol. They take on a lot of risk.

nitro · Aug 10, 2007

Quote from bidask:

mind if i ask how they found you? pm me if you like.

I have taken down my resume from Monster and Dice. Inspite of that, I get bombarded with about 30 calls a day from either the firm or recruiting firms representing firms.

Every once in a while I get a really interesting call.

nitro

nitro · Aug 10, 2007

Quote from ASusilovic:

So what did you answer related to the offer , if I may ask ? Would be good to know somebody from this board is working within PEAK6... By the way, related to the thread => tried to get some infos by calling them directly, but still nobody responsible in yet...

I don't work for Peak6.

I know someone that does some very high level recruiting. He said that Peak6 has sort of a "rough" reputation. While I usually just take that as input and don't put much weight on it, the source in this case was of the highest order, so I could not ignore it.

If a firm has a really interesting opportunity, I generally ignore opinons on the firm, no matter what anyone/who says. For example, one firm was looking for someone to do research using state of the art AI algorithms on large datasets. I think that would be really interesting...

nitro