#quants-n-traders

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rose holly
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Ayyyy nice man

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Good luck

long raft
rose holly
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Belvedere does onsite

long raft
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Oh that’s cool! Sadly none of them wanted to see me 😂

rose holly
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ahah, I think G research is really good tho

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got rejected from them 😅

long raft
long raft
rose holly
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I'm not from UK, maybe that played a part along with lack of experience

long raft
nocturne estuary
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i always assumed that quant firms would be strict on lying about grad date

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but is that actually true

rose holly
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i doubt

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but like if you legit have plans change then they have to recognize it

long raft
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I mean graduation date can be easily extended or even if you are super motivated you can graduate early

nova dust
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How can one improve its problem solving ability? Is it even possible to do after age of 20?

hallow shoal
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☠️

nova dust
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So it’s plausible to increase ability of solve problem even tho you are adult right?

hallow shoal
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You can improve at anything as long a syou put the time in

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of course its easier when you are younger, but practice helps no matter the age

nova dust
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Oh that seems relieving

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That’s true it’s like when you are younger you gradually learn things so no pressure

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But when you get older you have less time so gets harder

hallow shoal
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your brain is just more malleable so you take in more things.

nova dust
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That’s true

hallow shoal
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But learning as you are older is always possible

nova dust
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Thanks bro

hallow shoal
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np

nova dust
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Do you work at quant firm?

hallow shoal
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Next summer yeh

nova dust
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Which one

nocturne estuary
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boptiver

nova dust
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Congratulations bro

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As trader or swe?

hallow shoal
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I do swe

nova dust
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I failed at both this time

next girder
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So not really quant…

hallow shoal
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But I had a trading offer though at another firm

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but better at swe

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than

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trading

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me no like trading

next girder
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I was teasing you

nova dust
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Yeah true do what you like

next girder
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Congrats

hallow shoal
nova dust
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I am more into maths so if I get into trader I would be happy

hallow shoal
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learning real problem oslving skills more important than memorization

nova dust
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That’s true

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I will try this approach

hallow shoal
nova dust
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Yeah plus when you can’t solve something you have inner craving to see solution

nova dust
hallow shoal
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ah kk

nova dust
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I have Amazon swe internship for this summer but wish to make into quant next year

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But not want to improve problem solving just cause of that reason

next girder
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Take combinatorics and probability

hallow shoal
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quant swe/ trading interviews

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are a lot different

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than big tech

nova dust
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It was my life long passion maths and problem solving but I had to leave it for some reason after 10 th I wish to pick it up again

hallow shoal
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need to know CS fundamentals for SWE / Probability Calculus for Trading

nova dust
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That’s true quant swe involves various sort of things like operating system ,networking and all

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I am actually good at probability but i would say only at conventional ( class room problems)

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So I have to do more problems to think out of the box

hallow shoal
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More game oreiented problems as you get deeper

nova dust
nova dust
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Even Jane street gave me oa for trader

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4 questions 30 minutes

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I knew all four but problem was I took too much time in explaining so I could not finish all

rose holly
nova dust
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Written explanation time consuming than oral one

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Where can I find good problems

hallow shoal
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Green Book

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Combinatorics class, Probability class

nova dust
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My college does not have specific combi class they just teach that first two weeks in probability class

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Would that work?

nova dust
hallow shoal
nova dust
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Understood

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Thanks bunch

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Btw can I add you? Only if you don’t mind

broken thorn
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if only i had an amzon offer like zolo

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cries in resume ghost

nova dust
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Maybe work on ur resume if you are confident about ur skills

broken thorn
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yeah i should probably make a new resume

rapid cargo
nova dust
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1/6

rapid cargo
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yeah, he's good

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hire em

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vouch 100%

nova dust
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Lol😂

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if it was that easy no body would be swe everybody would be trader 😂

rose holly
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you a money simp?

nova dust
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Just think about there is high paying field which ask these easy questions would not people interested in it?

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Faang were prestigious 5 years ago since then there interviews are getting relatively easier every year

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cause people always chose road with less resistance

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Why are not people interested in quant? It’s hard that’s reason it’s not everyone’s cup of tea

nova dust
steel heron
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Kinda

nova dust
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Tbh if it was not about money

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I would more like to be theoretical physicist or mathematician

long raft
nova dust
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That’s true let’s give generic answer

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Probability of 2 on fair die would be

fast gazelle
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what if it's a 1 sided die

nova dust
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1/N where N is number of sides

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And N>1

long raft
nova dust
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Otherwise 0

long raft
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N element of C

nova dust
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C?

long raft
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Complex numbers

nova dust
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How

long raft
broken thorn
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c is what you get after integratinf

long raft
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N = 1038i + 10

broken thorn
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i mean my intuition says realize the denominator

long raft
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I have no clue what I am talking about 😂😂😂

broken thorn
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and then sicne its complex number its probably prob amplitude rather than trye probability, so mult by the complex conjugate

long raft
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I just throw out random things 😂😂

broken thorn
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thats what i would do with my 2 semesters of quantum physics

nova dust
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🙂

rapid cargo
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tried to make it as clear as possible

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mb

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6 sides

steel heron
rapid cargo
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hire em

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you can screenshot and make this into an nft and use it as a reference on your resume

nocturne estuary
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garden

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Yeah

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That’s why it’s garden leave

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It’s citadel branded tho

stark crow
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what the

stoic hound
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anyone here get to the 2nd stage at ren tech?

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got a 1 hour phone call with them and don't know what 2 expect

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deadass LOL

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everyone thinks im capping

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oh it's just the generic computer programmer role

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the 1 where they just ask you about c++ 17 concepts for 15 min

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I dont think they have new grad positions lol

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these people are too rich to care about typing correctly

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like they legit are too rich to care

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😂

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but fr if anoyne has done round 2 for computer programer plz help

broken thorn
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99^99 = (100)^(99) * (.99)^99

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can someone explain why this works?

floral locust
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(100*.99)^99

broken thorn
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ive never done that before

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why can i pull multiplication out

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what is the rule called?

royal forge
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holy shit

broken thorn
rose holly
stoic hound
broken thorn
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zon

stoic hound
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just CS and business

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but I watch Cpp con videos in my freetime 😂

broken thorn
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put that on your resume

stoic hound
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😂

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cpp enjoyer

broken thorn
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if ur so smart then what are move semantics?

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(i need to learnt hem)

stoic hound
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there's a great jason turner talk about this

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that does a better job explaining it than I will

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gimme a sec

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ah it's not turner but

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klaus is based

broken thorn
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ty

rose holly
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add me

stoic hound
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ty tho

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❤️

rose holly
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pinged u in another server

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oh

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bet

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you probably should blur out names

stoic hound
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yeah fair pt

steel heron
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ill dm u what he said

split yew
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anyone know arrowstreet intern numbers

floral locust
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Every time I hear them they keep going up

split yew
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what u heard so far boss

floral locust
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25k/mo and 10k signing

broken thorn
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its been like that for months devg

floral locust
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That’s pretty high

hasty hill
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10k signing is 2 espresso machines

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Not enough

stark crow
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@rose holly what’s cit process like rn

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Is it standardized?

rose holly
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Overall the sense im getting is lc isnt typically harder than med

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1 sys design round

stark crow
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What should I expect from initial phone? Lc med?

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The 45 min one with the engineer

rose holly
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whether thats grokking sys design or low level design, interviewer dependent

rose holly
stark crow
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Okay pog

rancid spoke
rose holly
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i had 2 meds

stark crow
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Ty

rose holly
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ya gl

stark crow
rancid spoke
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It’s 2 questions during phone?

rose holly
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tbh a BFS is a med

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should be a easy

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so 1 easy 1 med

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should be 1 qusetion

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my interviewer made it an 1 hour

stark crow
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I c

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Does tagged help at all?

broken thorn
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i hear citadel has a pretty strong gpa cutoff. if i am 3.50 but not much above do i still have a shot with them?

rose holly
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i did 0 tagged

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dont think it helps

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interviewer dependen

rancid spoke
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Is it common lc questions

rose holly
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what cup of tea they drank that day will determine your fate

stark crow
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Otherwise can be as low as you want

rose holly
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one was some financial implementation one

broken thorn
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competitions? as in putnam and IOI etc?

rose holly
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for swe?

stark crow
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And Cit sponsored ones

rose holly
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you dont need those

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you dont need those for trading either

stark crow
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No you don’t

rose holly
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just need to be gud

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or lucky

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idk

stark crow
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But I’ve seen them circumvent gpa cutoff

broken thorn
rose holly
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o really

stark crow
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Yes

broken thorn
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since my gpa likely will be 3.5 but NO higher

vernal hornet
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if u have them it’s instant interview though

rose holly
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i was just talking to somone the other day

stark crow
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Dracos and I did detective work dogesmile

rose holly
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someone with usamo or smoething got rej cause < 3.6

stark crow
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What the

broken thorn
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so its not 3.5, its 3.6?

stark crow
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Maybe just Cit specific competitions

broken thorn
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then im screwed out of cit for life right?

rose holly
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i would bet it would be more likely what you said

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usamo will 100% help

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IMO will 10000% help

stark crow
rose holly
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@stark crow dms are coming WazowskiStare 🤣

fast gazelle
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why would you want cit when you can just get jane street

rose holly
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"just get"

stark crow
broken thorn
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why aim for 1 company when u can aim for 2 company?

stark crow
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I won't process anything dogesmile

rose holly
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this new message request feature is weird

stark crow
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congrats on jane street offer @fast gazelle

rose holly
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congrats on sign on stacks @fast gazelle

fast gazelle
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!process dm @stark crow for citadel referral

edgy baneBOT
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You can only use this command in 2022_winter_intern_process, 2022_summer_intern_process, 2022_grad_process, 2022_fall_intern_process, 2023_summer_intern_process, 2023_winter_intern_process, 2023_grad_process

stark crow
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FUCK

rose holly
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someone here got rentech phone

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today

vernal hornet
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@stark crow can u give referral

rose holly
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some c++ legend

stark crow
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that's actually worse than procesing offer

broken thorn
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@stark crow can u refer me to the big data AI/ML team

vernal hornet
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was he undergrad

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that’s crazy if so

broken thorn
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he has amazon on resume and apparently he "watches c++ con videos in his free time"

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do u think rentech has any non college grads?

zinc sleet
rose holly
stark crow
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yes

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oh right you did too

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lc?

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LOL

fast gazelle
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what's cit gpa cutoff for nontarget

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high 3.9 or low 3.9

broken thorn
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another datapoint is i know a non target person who had susmongus int group internship and 3.97 gpa and got cit

rose holly
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3.9999

fast gazelle
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ic

broken thorn
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do u have citadel mr pot ash?

stark crow
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what was that like

fast gazelle
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my gpa might drop to like 3.9 or maybe even 3.8 this sem monkaS

stark crow
broken thorn
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they do resume screen after the onsite

stark crow
broken thorn
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u gonna get resume rejected

stark crow
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is it just lc?

fast gazelle
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no

rose holly
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potassium is cracked

fast gazelle
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btw they're quick to reject so if you don't hear back within 2-3 days, there's a good (but not certain) chance you passed

stark crow
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rip gotta grind then

broken thorn
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more like "yes u"

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u are both quacked

rose holly
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yea the rejecting thing makes sense

fast gazelle
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they even rejected me on a sunday kekw_recession_edition

rose holly
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if its a while either theyre planning or they want you

broken thorn
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within 2 business years i shall also be cracked (perhaps less cracked than yall, but we shall see)

rose holly
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its too rng

fast gazelle
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prayge ill be as cracked as wagons in 10 years

floral locust
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You’ll never feel good enough

rose holly
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wagons got like 10 offers right lmao

broken thorn
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as long as my company next year is better than the one last year, i am cracked

rose holly
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can never get past akuna bar sadge

broken thorn
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amazon=cracked till 2024

fast gazelle
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akuna bar is low

broken thorn
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2024 SIG=cracked till 2025

floral locust
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That’s not a good way of thinking

fast gazelle
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also akuna is kinda shit

stark crow
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I'd rather have cit than akuna tbh

fast gazelle
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who wouldn't

rose holly
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oh absolutely

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i failed 2 akuna finals

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one of them went well

stark crow
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@rose holly any news on cit toronto office?

fast gazelle
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cit >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> akuna

rose holly
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i have no clue sorry

stark crow
broken thorn
rose holly
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didnt know they had toronto office

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its probably good considering the rest are

broken thorn
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starting at HRT<<<starting at nowheresville and ending at a lower tier finance place

fast gazelle
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is toronto pay good tho

steel heron
stark crow
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I just need to know if they'll let a ng work there

fast gazelle
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drw canada pays peanuts

stark crow
rose holly
rose holly
floral locust
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I mean normally companies aren’t definitively better than others

stark crow
rose holly
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oh ok cool

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looking for RO?

fast gazelle
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what school

stark crow
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only if it's the canadian office

fast gazelle
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don't tell me it's something like UW

stark crow
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otherwise doesn't matter how high the offer is I can't take it lol

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well I can but I won't

fast gazelle
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UofT is target for hft right

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i thought waterloo and uoft were good for hft

broken thorn
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waterloo is a target for everything

floral locust
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Waterloo has a nontrivial amount go to js

rose holly
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starting high means you started low earlier before

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no one starts high tbh

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unless youre like terrance tao

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but he had to learn math too so 🤷‍♂️

rose holly
broken thorn
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terrence tao didnt start high

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he just started at age 2

fast gazelle
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but did he intern at faang

broken thorn
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but yeah, i want to start as high as i can while still havig room to grow ofc

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he was a PHD intern at ivy league

rose holly
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im trying to get deepmind

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then i will be satisfied

broken thorn
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you will never be satisfied

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shouldnt try to imo

rose holly
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fair enough

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be happy but not satisfied

broken thorn
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its like any improvement in anything

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you will never be big enough because you will compare yourself to your size after getting a pump

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u will never be as big as your pump

gusty kiln
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i wanna b a fkign wizard dev but cant even get past DP, am i doomed?

broken thorn
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spend more time on dp

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if u cant doit

gusty kiln
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i cant figure out the translation from recursion to dp

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at least not bottom up

broken thorn
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do you know induction?

gusty kiln
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top down is easy but i want to think bottom up

broken thorn
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its basically induction

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recursion but backwards

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what if instead of calling fib(n) first you called fib(1)

gusty kiln
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yeah im kinda starting to get that but its still hard for me its such a weird way of thinking and it took me a while to figure out recursion

broken thorn
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its literally just that

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its JUST indcution

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if you dont get induction learn that first

gusty kiln
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all dp is induction?

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is that true in all cases

broken thorn
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bottom up is at least

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top down might be different (but i use bottom up 100% of the time and havent run into issues ever)

gusty kiln
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hm i always imagined there was some problems that were only possible with one or the other

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okay im just going to spam bottom up thanks

broken thorn
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i learned about this today actually

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bottom up might use more memory if the table is sparse

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for instance a sparsely filled graph (maybe your guy can hop 1000 spaces at a time, so only about 1/1000000 of the n^2 cells would be filled)

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but even on IMC OA which was similar to this i didnt have any issues and passed the hackerrank

broken thorn
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ALSO

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i think the 3 best DPs to learn dp in this order is
coin change
knapsack w/o repetition (there is no LC for this but its on other sites like g4g
edit distance

gusty kiln
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i got coin change down that one has a really easy translation from induction to that but yeah im currently stuck on knapsack

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also worried abt doing tagged questions bc im going into it with a set mindset which is prob not optimal

broken thorn
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before you come up with the recurrence relationship you should come up with the subproblem

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in knapsack w/o repetition, the subproblem is
"the maximum amount of value in the knapsack after skipping/including the first i items, and with j total weight in the knapsack

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for knapsack[i][j]

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(thi sis WITHOUT repetition knapsack)

gusty kiln
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hmmm

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alr lemme try that out imma do an LC

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thanks sm btw

broken thorn
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i only mkae 2 decisions per dp problem

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"what is the subproblem"
"what is the recurrence"

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as far as i am concerned, everything else is boilerplate

gusty kiln
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Minimum (Maximum) Path to Reach a Target
Distinct Ways
Merging Intervals
DP on Strings
Decision Making

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would u agree these r the main dp topics

broken thorn
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idk

gusty kiln
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and u feel ur able to apply bottom up to all of these?

broken thorn
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i dont think of them in terms of topics, i just relate them to similar problems in my head

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"this one is basically knapsakc" or "this is just edit distance but xyz is changed"

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or more often, "the recurrence relationship is LITERALLY SPELLED OUT IN THE PROBLEM, therefore i use 0 brainpower to solve this one"

gusty kiln
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alr im gonna try the problems u said and think abt it in those ways

broken thorn
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well

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hard to come up with knapsack or edit distance on ur own

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so personally id look at soln but force myself to understand it, then apply it to other problems

gusty kiln
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thats good to hear, i thought i was just a dumbass

broken thorn
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ye

stark crow
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@slow bear how many interviews was onsite btw

broken thorn
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i just do bottom up 100% of the time so its never a dceision for me lolol

gusty kiln
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i can come up with top down pretty quickly but idk something abt translating into bottom up is difficult

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so its not that i cant solve the problems but i want to know for the sake of knowing bottom up

broken thorn
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how is it any different winslow

gusty kiln
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thats y im putting emphasis on it

broken thorn
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instead of looping from i=n to i=0, loop from i=0 to i=n

stark crow
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ty dogesmile

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and gl prayge

gusty kiln
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im ngl i might just b stupid and not even know what top down is

stark crow
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after this is leadership call or something right

gusty kiln
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lemme just chill out and go study

broken thorn
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the amazon of hedge funds

stark crow
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nice okay

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time to grind after midterms

modern hinge
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Hey I just got a DRW OA for 75 mins. Did any of you guys take it and what types of questions they ask?

steel heron
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look for

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finding max/min

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or number of ways

fast gazelle
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like easy/medium

rose holly
# stark crow nice okay

yeah leadership is mostly behavioral; would prepare concepts on resume, some people get asked technical trivia based off resume; some friends got LC but i doubt it sthe norm

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DRW OA KEKW

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too bad i got rejected sadge

fast gazelle
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idt drw is interviewing any more lol

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they stopped doing super days

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probably bc they don't have many spots to fill

rose holly
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L

fast gazelle
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yes

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drew

rose holly
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league

fast gazelle
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chet

rose holly
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L

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russell rightbrook

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0-11

fast gazelle
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lol weren't 3 of them like 1-26 combined

rose holly
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yeah

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1-25

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embarrasing

fast gazelle
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westbrick nunn bev

rose holly
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bev out there jacking up threes

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like hes curry

violet willow
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Hello i trade

lyric loom
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Hello i trade

ionic sphinx
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compared to their first round phone interview how hard is the second round phone interview for sig

steel heron
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trading 5 life for staff of cosmic horror

chrome falcon
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anybody know what TC is at Point72? I have an OA for "summer analyst intern" but the email says data science

chrome falcon
ionic sphinx
floral locust
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Sig phones are the easiest relative to companies i deem as good or better than sig

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Most people get cut at final

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There is probably a larger behavioral eval than other places

broken thorn
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i assume behaviorla is a culture match?

modest kayak
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yall know resources to learn about quant material in general (like what options are, etc.) / swe stuff for quant?

rose holly
broken thorn
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me when i have to learn about the industry i want to get into 😡

floral locust
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U need option theory?

rose holly
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not for most roles / places

floral locust
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They only rly ask option theory if you’ve interned at somewhere where you’ve been exposed to it

woven lark
candid sparrow
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anyone interviewed for hrt swe?

rose holly
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@hasty hill mind pinning ^

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wait its alr pinned

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nvm

rose holly
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probably some lesser known firms ask more often

stark crow
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@rose holly what does cit trivia consist of?

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os and networking? that it?

rose holly
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i think language specific is also possible

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like way stuff is implemented in languages, like stuff like how does garbage collection work in so and so language ,etc.

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or you could get lucky like me and not get asked os trivia

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i do wish i got networking tho, prepped hard for that 😠

broken thorn
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garbage collection? i manually allocate and deallocate all my memory thanos

stark crow
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sounds good, I’ve already done os tho but I haven’t started studying for my networks course yet at all LOL so prolly gonna brush up on that

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Honestly studying for networks midterm prolly enough for Cit

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So I’ll glance thru ostep and read up on some Python trivia I guess

broken thorn
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i have a 10 min video to explain all of networking gimme a minut :3

rose holly
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wouldnt go overboard

stark crow
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as for language trivia is it any language on your resume or whatever you're coding with for the lc qs

rose holly
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hmm maybe language on your resume? @slow bear yo do uk about this

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i think the "i dont know cause i havent taken / havent had experience with" thing still worked for some people

stark crow
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LOL my coursework section lists all the cs courses they'd ever wanna ask about

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so that's a rip

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F

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ATS parser tricks gonna get me my first L of the szn sadge

broken thorn
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thats based

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not asking people stuff htey dont know

stark crow
#

mfw they ask me about typescript and javascript WazowskiStare

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idk if the preferences matter but I put python over c++ so I'll just prep python trivia

broken thorn
rose holly
#

very

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my resume was 99% data science / ML type stuff and got asked no trivia

#

so i have a hunch if you have OS / low level stuff on resume, they will ask

stark crow
#

Ahh okay

floral locust
#

Yes cit loves just asking resume stuff

rose holly
#

i did get a few beahvioral quetsions about my past internships

floral locust
#

If u put ml on resume that’s fair game for the phd ml people to grill u

stark crow
#

My projects are an actual kernel, distributed system and a trading bot so p much anything’s fair game for me

rose holly
floral locust
#

Qr can ask anything

rose holly
#

but wagons is cracked so should be alr

stark crow
#

need da monies

steel heron
#

Lol thats overwhelming

broken thorn
#

oh shit u got QR?

stark crow
#

I hope I didn’t schedule my interview too late tho lol

broken thorn
#

ok was gonna say

floral locust
#

LL options are the popular one

broken thorn
#

there SWE cracked and then theres QT cracked

steel heron
#

Qr is gigachad

stark crow
#

Wanted to do it after midterm szn and give myself enough time to prep

broken thorn
#

and THEN THERES QR cracked

stark crow
#

Nov 2

floral locust
#

Qt isn’t hard for cit

#

Relative to qr

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Games

#

Probability

broken thorn
#

does citadel care about gpa more or less than SWE ?

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for qt

rose holly
#

thats most firms

floral locust
#

Yea

rose holly
#

some lean to mental math

floral locust
#

It was v standard

stark crow
#

Well it looks like there’s at least 30 spots dogesmile

floral locust
#

Like nothing unexpected

#

Yes

stark crow
#

Should be ok esp with the competing offers

floral locust
#

I thought cit was easier than js harder than optiver IMC

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This was last year

broken thorn
floral locust
#

Yes

stark crow
floral locust
#

I can’t code

stark crow
floral locust
#

Or do real math

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I have 0 lc done

#

I took intro to Java my 5th semester

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Yes opt was not bad

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All games

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No real math

broken thorn
#

optiver OA wasnt too bad (except for me getting rejecte)

floral locust
#

Idk have a monkey brain

broken thorn
#

play card games

steel heron
#

drunk poker saturday night

broken thorn
#

be a gamer

floral locust
#

No

#

I was pre med first 2 years

steel heron
#

we should do poker nights in this

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too bad it would suck over

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discord

floral locust
#

I wanted to do swe but I kept getting rr

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So I did trading

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No I was a bum for all my majors

#

Yes

broken thorn
#

trading is easier to pass screen than swe?

floral locust
#

Js is a league of its own for trader, but qr are much harder than trader

#

Yea

#

Sig is easier than all other comparable firms imo

#

But there’s some more element of var cause they select for trader personalities more

broken thorn
#

do u know how hard they resume screen devg?

#

id very much like to work for susmogus international group

floral locust
#

Eh

broken thorn
#

do u have offers devg ?

#

thanks for asnswering all our questins

floral locust
#

I prepped for a few weeks

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I’m starting work in 2 weeks I’m on vacation

broken thorn
#

where u workin

floral locust
#

A l a m e d a

broken thorn
#

isnt that a city thonk

floral locust
#

Yes

#

Yes

broken thorn
#

devg u seem to know a lot about SIG

floral locust
#

Yea

broken thorn
#

i have the mental math OA to do, u made it sound not too bad

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i uhhh hpassed optiver 80 in 8 but failed akuna (or maybe resume rejected from akuna), also i have only like 43 zetamac

#

is sig oa mult choice or type answer

floral locust
#

From a company standpoint it’s probably good to have

#

Given how large the recruiting pool is

#

Yea some places do blacklist for ng or intern

broken thorn
#

where? i dont want to mess up long temr

floral locust
#

Lifetime blacklists are quite rare and are reserved for like tgs and rentech prolly

#

Sig blacklists for ng and intern I believe

#

So does Akuna

broken thorn
#

how long blacklist? 1 year? 5?

floral locust
#

Idk id assume for getting hired as a ng, so basically you can get hired laterally with prev exp for a diff role

broken thorn
#

idk what you mean devg

#

if i fail SIG for intern 2023 does that mean im screwed for all future intern and NG?

floral locust
#

Yea

pliant axle
#

i failed sig oa last year but got phone this year for trading

broken thorn
#

then should i just skip the OA ?

ionic sphinx
#

wtf

floral locust
#

Yea

#

Sig process is annoying this year it’s like 3 phones before final

#

Normally it was 2

ionic sphinx
#

i think its 2

#

thats what the recruiter told me

floral locust
#

Sure

#

They use the same Q’s any year anyways

#

That’s y everyone passes the phones and they just flip a coin for who passes the final

ionic sphinx
#

goddamn

broken thorn
#

how much zetamac do yall think for sig oa?

floral locust
#

0

broken thorn
#

i am confident in my sequences ability, all i am worried about is mental math

floral locust
#

It’s not mental math

broken thorn
#

oh rly?

#

what then? sequences? probability?

floral locust
#

Probability

#

Brainteasers

broken thorn
#

oh ez

#

then i gotta grind culture fit lol

floral locust
#

Yea I didn’t think the oa was that bad

broken thorn
#

A group of people wants to determine their average salary on the condition that no individual would be able to find out anyone else's salary. Can they accomplish this, and, if so, how?

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"Yes, it's possible - The first person thinks of a random number, say X. This person adds this number to her salary. The rest of the group simply adds their salary to the initial number. Then, the first person subtracts the random number X and divides the total salary sum by the size of the group to obtain the average."

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i dont understnad this solution

#

wouldnt the first perosn know everyones salary from that

full ridge
#

so lets say im person 1

#

my salary is X

#

I tell person 2 my salary is X + Y

#

lets say im person 2

#

my salary is Z

steel heron
#

Its like

full ridge
#

I tell person 3 the running sum is X + Y + Z

#

etc

steel heron
#

You add a random number and then subtract it

full ridge
#

each person in the chain cant discern the original Y value this way

steel heron
#

The person who added a random number cant see the intermediate sums

broken thorn
#

that makes sense

broken thorn
tough elm
#

Is this from the brainstellar website

broken thorn
#

ok guys, if you want to pass resume screen at IMC all u gotta do is say schnasty at c++

unknown.png
#

cpp goat

tough elm
broken thorn
#

waol street oasis

#

wall

sand willow
#

anyone here done HRT python swe intervoo

#

phone

#

intervoo

#

if you have plz dm me

tough elm
broken thorn
#

47 zetamac

#

typing fast>thinking fast

nova dust
broken thorn
#

60+

#

@nova dust

#

no

#

never

#

ooh thats the fun part

#

my one on one with manager is at 11am

zinc sleet
broken thorn
#

imc website

nova dust
broken thorn
#

wym?

#

i am swe intern at a tech company

nova dust
#

Oh which one

stark crow
#

Bro

#

Wtf

#

Why you awake at 5am

rose holly
stark crow
#

stop

hasty hill
#

If u wanna talk garbage collection

nocturne estuary
#

Kirb had to do it to em

worn mango
#

Does HRT ghost? I aced the OA a while back. Have a good pedigree… when should i expect an answer?
(Python swe)

fast gazelle
#

they for sure ghost lol

#

there's way more good applicants than spots

fleet oriole
#

Can anyone that’s has done Akuna final PM?

nocturne estuary
#

Citadel cool down is 6 months after application or 6 months after rejection?

#

Gonna try to get citadel off season

rose holly
#

Wassup

#

yessir

#

team matching happens in march for me tho haha

#

ye

#

rigby are you still ghosted WazowskiStare

#

stop

#

change rigby pfp

#

get a better name

#

I dont have a better name yet

#

maybe I'll just do paolo

#

wait didnt u say some nba thing

#

celtics won

#

wait no celtics play magic today

#

I feel like I did say something

#

against sixers

#

but idk what it was

#

you said smth about the first game

#

celtics beat heat

#

maybe it was most points scored

#

and magic today

#

do jaylen

#

you havnet done that

#

brown deserves respect

#

I dont want to do the main guys tho

#

then do brogdon

#

you know what why not

#

but hes boring

#

I had something good

rose holly
#

someone not obvious but good enough

#

spencer?

#

oh

#

i dont want to do spencer as my real name

#

ill keep it here

#

blake grifin

#

washed

#

scott foster

#

@mellow thistle

#

hi

#

DO HARDEN

#

NO

#

😔

#

do black

#

like nokker

#

the name's more important

#

@forest cobalt whats another quant figure he can choose

#

Peng Zhao

#

im not doing that shit

#

K

#

spencer petras >>>

#

who is spencer

#

is he good football player

#

iowa's quarterback

#

he's terrible

#

probably the 2nd worst D1 quarterback to play this entire season

#

ah

#

Brian Chesky was cool

#

yes

fast gazelle
#

is that the guy that likes fast cars

#

oh wait nvm that guy was Asian

#

maybe it’s the Asian guy in that pic

digital bridge
fast gazelle
#

Gary

steel heron
#

Why is your name

#

Spencer petras

rose holly
#

its my name

steel heron
#

I went to school with him

rose holly
#

no way

steel heron
#

Iowa?

rose holly
#

yeah

#

you go there?

steel heron
#

No

#

I knew him since

#

kindergartn

rose holly
#

tf

steel heron
#

k-8 school

rose holly
#

are you fr?

steel heron
#

Yes

rose holly
#

crazy

steel heron
#

Hes the quarterback there now

rose holly
#

he sucks

steel heron
#

right

rose holly
#

yeah

steel heron
#

😐

rose holly
#

hes the worst starting qb in the fbs

steel heron
#

Whats fbs

rose holly
#

football bowl subdivision

#

the top half of D1 schools

steel heron
#

lol

rose holly
#

do you still talk to him

steel heron
#

Well hes pretty good still i think

#

No

#

He would crush us in football in PE XD

rose holly
#

hes definitely good, just looks really bad compared to other FBS quarterbacks

steel heron
#

Oh

rose holly
steel heron
#

Yeah i guess relatively maybe hes not as good

rose holly
#

so hes gotta be amazing to get that position

#

just relatively speaking

#

like he'd be dominant af at a lower division school

#

every fbs qb would be

steel heron
#

He was always a really nice guy so im defending him

rose holly
#

he just has the lowest qb rating in the fbs rn

steel heron
#

Thats funny tho

#

I thought u were him for a sec

rose holly
#

yeah like hes ranked 124 out of the 128

unknown.png
#

obviously still great but just relatively speaking

steel heron
#

Rip

rose holly
#

thats kinda funny tho, I didnt think anyone here would actually know him

steel heron
#

Lol

#

Wtf

rose holly
#

lol the wikipedia trolls

steel heron
#

Thats mean

rose holly
#

my school had a really shit head coach

#

so someone changed his page to say "on <day>, he was unfortunately announced as the head coach at <>."

steel heron
#

Lol

#

Ima edit it

fast gazelle
#

yes

#

one of the few companies that actually cares

#

yea

#

it’s cringe

#

citadel even asked for my sat score kekw_recession_edition

#

i have a 5.0/4.0

#

I’m just trying to relate to the poors with a 3.99

broken thorn
obtuse flame
#

It’s 3.6 or 3.5

broken thorn
#

i actually have a good sat

steel heron
#

same

floral locust
#

Y not just lie

#

They have no way of fact checking

broken thorn
#

true lol

#

how am i even gonna find my sat scores even if im tellign the trueth

woven lark
#

Imagine u get the cit offer

#

And then you send in your background check info like your SSN, license, etc.

#

As a final step before employment, cit requires you to verify your SAT score and send an official collegeboard report to them 💀💀💀

stark crow
#

How many times were you asked for your transcripts

rose holly
#

i never was asked that

rose holly
#

unless the background check asks for transcripts i dont see it happening

next girder
tropic ravine
#

Has anyone being interviewed at HRT as algo dev intern this year? I tried to find some info online but it seems to be all from last year

nova dust
limpid nacelle
#

Did you bag something exeptional? thanospog

nova dust
#

How is two sigma interview

stark crow
#

but prolly gonna dust off the cobwebs bc I've got cit coming up kekw_recession_edition

limpid nacelle
#

Didn't you bag cit?

#

I thought you did

stark crow
#

no I haven't even had my initial phone yet

#

since you've been gone I also got databricks and datadog dogesmile

limpid nacelle
#

Nice

#

very nice

#

tho you will decline

stark crow
#

while paris does sound nice

#

I've been told outside the eiffel tower region

#

it's kinda shit kekw_recession_edition

limpid nacelle
#

ddog paris WazowskiStare

stark crow
#

no nyc

#

but they arranged a trip this summer

#

to take interns to paris

#

anyways if I get cit I'll go there else I'll go to goog

limpid nacelle
#

cit winter?

stark crow
#

summer

#

im doing msft winter

limpid nacelle
#

msft dogesmile

stark crow
#

cit is too short notice, I won't get my visa in time for winter

limpid nacelle
#

same with ddog?

#

and db

#

or they don't do winter

stark crow
#

yes and also they can do any season, but they don't have canadian offices

#

at least cit still has a toronto office

limpid nacelle
stark crow
#

no no if I don't get cit I'll def go to G

limpid nacelle
#

I mean, if you get cit

stark crow
#

I'd rather do G ng than any of the other ones I mentioned apart from cit

#

oh

#

well they pay enough for me to pick them over G

limpid nacelle
#

bro changed his mind dogesmile

#

I like this

stark crow
#

it'd help with tuition a lot, I'll just reinterview for G for ng dogesmile

limpid nacelle
#

chasing the bag

#

wait

lyric loom
#

CHASE THE BAG

limpid nacelle
#

so you plan to take G or Cit if you have the choice for ng

stark crow
#

cit if toronto office pays decent otherwise G

#

if I can even get the toronto office for cit ng lol

#

could be reserved for important QRs kekw_recession_edition

limpid nacelle
#

Btw, I met serenity in person

stark crow
#

is he cute dogesmile

limpid nacelle
#

Very cute dogesmile

#

Bro is chilling rn

#

5 months left to chill

#

Until he restarts at optiver

#

Bro told me that less than 50% of interns got a return offer

#

Kinda scary

nova dust
rose holly
stark crow
#

It’s the same timezone so it shouldn’t matter

#

Like an alum’s I think the only JS employee who they allowed to work remotely from Canada after RTO

rose holly
#

ah ok

#

rip

steel heron
#

i remember n3

ancient aspen
#

anyone have a probability sheet or site they use to study for probability interview questions?

broken thorn
#

who's n3

sage jay
#

wait....he left the server ?

broken thorn
#

idk that person

#

but thats cray, is it SWE,QT,QR?

faint moon
#

swe

sage jay
#

oh shoot, he is a legend

limber lion
stark crow
#

why I'm taking G otherwise?

#

safest guaranteed resume value + very high pay for canada for ng

twin fable
#

I'd argue g resume value >= cit as swe unless you want to do hft for life ? and much more stability

broken thorn
#

@Bog#5748 u got the list of quant places?

royal forge
#

although these are the relevant ones imo

#

😈

broken thorn
royal forge
#

that list is already too long

#

you only really want to work for the companies i just sced above

broken thorn
#

stop bragging

royal forge
#

im not

#

honestly even t6 is pretty bad

broken thorn
#

mr "i got into belvedere"

#

t6 more like 86 (per hour(

royal forge
#

only those top 5 tiers are "good"

#

💀

broken thorn
#

you only say that cuz u have tier 6 lmfao

#

when u have t5 ull say that about t4+

royal forge
#

maybe

#

because they're secretive

#

yea exactly

#

and real goats don't have linkedins

#

they dont care about that stuff

next girder
#

I met someone that worked as a quant researcher at rentec for like 10 years.

broken thorn
#

the true goats say no to rentech because they have to relocate and they alredy have a family in anothe rcity

next girder
#

From what ive heard To get a job at rentec you basically have to be a top researcher

#

They recruit a lot of academics

#

Cracked resume depends on what youre trying to do but ok.

#

It was an interview with jim simons who started rentec. He said they mostly recruit PhDs with no background in finance.

#

Not just phds from top schools but faculty and really good researchers in various stem fields.

#

I didnt know pdt was good. Ive been getting emails from them about some event theyre having for PhDs and postdocs at my uni.

broken thorn
#

be able to spout off every difference between each c++ version and apply them correctly

#

thats the most undercover spy name ever

#

moustache and glasses type name

steel heron
#

barn

rose holly
rose holly
#

some have lifelong non competes

broken thorn
rose holly
#

in most cases it will hold up

#

so maybe idk

#

so if you go there you better be good and all in

steel heron
#

which company has lifetime non compete

#

sig is known for having a long one and thats 3 years

twin fable
#

yea nvm cit >> for intern that's fax

next girder
rose holly
#

Still think its close though

#

I think they mean rentec specifically

broken thorn
#

^

next girder
#

Who cares ab dev

broken thorn
#

youre allowed to invest in medallion fund so yes

#

idk, but im pretty sure employees are allowed to invest

#

and thats like the perk

#

not 100%

royal forge
next girder
#

Wdym by bad

broken thorn
#

u mean other funds only allow employees to invest?

rose holly
royal forge
#

obviously i like belv otherwise i wouldn't have accepted

next girder
rose holly
#

oh interesting

broken thorn
#

o shit thats like RSUs kinda

fast gazelle
#

doesn't hrt force you to invest

#

with deferred comp

#

maybe you can't invest willingly but iirc their bonuses are deferred bc it's invested into the fund