I'm a UI engineer at Citadel who's worked at Netflix and Google. Here are 7 important lessons that have been critical to my rise at Ken Griffin's $57 billion hedge fund.
Kristofer Baxter leads a team of about 20 UI engineers at Citadel, a $57 billion hedge fund.This is his story charting his career path and important lessons learned, as told to Bianca Chan, a $57 billion hedge fund founded by billionaire Ken Griffin and headquartered in Miami. It has been edited for length and clarity.leading user interface on the Citadel X teamUI engineering is a really broad and vast thing. But software is very similar at many different places.
Speed is critical for many businesses, so don't let perfect be the enemy of good. Sometimes, in order to move quickly, you write code that you want to refactor later. But it's important to get the lessons out there sooner rather than later. The fast-paced culture is one of the things that I was really excited about coming to the finance industry. Things can change and priorities can shift and you end up building things that have tremendous value by iterating quickly.
The biggest lesson I learned there is that creating a consistent experience is better than creating a great experience only in one place. Sometimes you see the user experience as a set of operations, as these discreet individual things. But when a person's using a product, they think of it as a collective, whole thing. If you have one part of your product experience that is subpar compared to the rest, that's what people remember.
At Citadel, we definitely use this lesson quite a bit. We work really closely with front-office partners and investment professionals so we know what to build. Even more critically, it helps us understand where we're not building what we need to. That highlights opportunity for improvement.This is something I learned from a partner that I worked with at Netflix who I really respected.
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