#quants-n-traders

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floral locust
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Join a crypto firm if u rly believe in crypto

broken thorn
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you made this up

floral locust
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If u try to go to trad fi with crypto exp idk if they’ll respect it

final forge
floral locust
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I never did

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They paid me a lot

final forge
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even by trading standards? Sheesh

broken thorn
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gotta remember ftx paid sometjing like 800k tc for swes didnt it?

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i dotn even want to know what alameda paid quants

floral locust
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800 was on the higher end

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It was also a lot in equity

broken thorn
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wasnt the "equity" in ftt that u could sell?

floral locust
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No

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Equity worked like any startup

broken thorn
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o

final forge
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oof

languid galleon
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how do u know? cant find anything online

floral locust
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Twitter

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No

barren steeple
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He worked At Goblin Global

dapper iris
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do u unironically still do this

floral locust
languid galleon
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Anyone looking for a job? Hiring G.E quants at my firm Varrock Capital

lost stratus
dapper iris
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it taught me how profitable market making is

smoky fjord
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I learned how profitable market making is after trading options. Watching my yolo 5 DTE OOM calls getting theta killed

floral locust
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Exchange fees 😔😔😔

final forge
dapper iris
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ur not selling on steam community market lol

smoky fjord
final forge
smoky fjord
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Yeah, it wasn't really trading, more of a roulette

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it was fun tho

stray lava
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crypto teams in jump made so much in 2020 that they separated it from main business

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lots of firms are affected by ftx blow up

rose holly
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already happening

hallow shoal
winged aurora
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Anybody heard of maven securities? Are they good

tulip sapphire
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Lol am I your friend

tulip sapphire
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oh i was also asked to bound corr(X,Z) given corr(X,Y) and corr(Y,Z)

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and asked to derive least squares

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and then other basic regression stuff

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for QR

broken thorn
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is it just stats 101?

tulip sapphire
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yeah an intro stats class should tell you that you start off with correlations being bound between -1 and 1 as they are just normalized covariances

floral locust
tulip sapphire
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there are many ways to proceed, one is converting to expectations and seeing which are non-neg

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the other includes taking derivatives

floral locust
tulip sapphire
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in either case youll see that you can only construct a bound from one side

tulip sapphire
floral locust
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U can just construct the cov matrix and use psd property of cov matrix

tulip sapphire
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by cit?

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oh i was asked by cit not 2s

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ive never interviewed with 2s, seems not to be worth it

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yea i meant citsec QR mb

floral locust
royal forge
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are you guys all CS?

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is this covered in stats or something?

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or linalg

tulip sapphire
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did they also ask you the binomial robot on a grid counting q?

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if so i think we interviewed with the same dude

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nvm

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they were like a robot is at (0, 0) and with p=1/2 (they later generalize it) it moves up or right

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whats the prob of getting to (n, n) in the center of the board or sth

floral locust
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Isn’t this just like path counting

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Yea

tulip sapphire
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yeah i am

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the solution was that it's a binomial random process

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with params n, p

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where n is the number of steps

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or sth it's been awhile

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i used it to find the inverse covar matrix

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you probs can but im bad

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i dont go to Yale so im not smart like you 😢

floral locust
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How do u do ur geometrically wot

tulip sapphire
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maybe we are all thinking of slightly different questions LMAO

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ya i recall that

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but woodbury for the gaussian priors q

floral locust
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can’t u just write out the sum of logs of the Gaussian pdf

tulip sapphire
floral locust
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That’s all you’ll be doing this summer 😈😈😈

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At chevron

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Psd determinant nonnegative

tulip sapphire
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^

floral locust
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3x3 determinant not bad

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To calc

tulip sapphire
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yeah i remember doing that in citsec qr interview

floral locust
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How does the robot q generalize?

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When it’s not just .5

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Nice pfp @atomic quail

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V funny day on Twitter today

fringe flint
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trying to get out of SWE hell

floral locust
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They do behavioral?

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Otherwise it’d take like 60 seconds just doing MLE

tulip sapphire
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ive def been asked both

floral locust
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I always forget the rules when taking deriv for matrix polynomials

tulip sapphire
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but like lower tier quant firms are the ones who ask derive OLS

floral locust
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7th heaven

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I still don’t have a good understanding of what mgf’s are lol

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All that to have insanely high cut rates lol

tulip sapphire
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L ive never been asked beyond 4

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skew and kurtosis moment

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?

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i feel like i understand MGFs p well

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i think the way i was taught it was very good

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sure wrt intuition

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oh proofs ive usually seen pull the MGF out of their ass instead of starting from E[e^{tX}]

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"look it up in the table at the end of this book" - every stoch calc textbook ever (probably)

floral locust
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Idr anything from stoch calc

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I just know to use ito’s

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And that’s all lol

tulip sapphire
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like if youre given a bunch of data from a random process and youre asked to predict the next value, your best guess will be the mean

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however with the variance you can give a better guess

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(i.e. see improvements from markov's bound to chebyshev's bounds excluding the 1 degenerate edge case)

floral locust
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Qr

tulip sapphire
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we r talking abt QR not QT

floral locust
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The optiver d1 cut rates are p nuts from what I’ve heard

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Higher than qt

tulip sapphire
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and then if you include Skewness (third central moment) you can do even better

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etc etc with kurtosis and onwards with diminishing marginal returns

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but now what if you could use ALL moments at once

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then would give you a p good bound

floral locust
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Fit a regession with 999 moments from the vol curve 😈😈😈

tulip sapphire
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<@&868936794601828492> pls ban

stark crow
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Ty

tulip sapphire
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and then looking at E[exp(sX)] you can write out the taylor series expansion for e^x

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and youll see that after taking n derivatives

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you will lose all the terms with power n-1 or lower as their derivative will become 0 (i.e. take the derivative twice of x wrt x, or the derivative thrice of x^2 wrt x, and youll see that)

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and evaluating the nth derivative at x=0 will make all later terms, which still have an x in term, go to 0

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leaving you with just the E[X^n] which is a constant without an x (hence why it wasnt 0'd out)

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and like usually if we wanted E[X^n] we would have to do an integral of ∫ x^n f_X(x) dx

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but now we can do derivatives instead of integrals

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so 😃

tulip sapphire
tulip sapphire
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:ping:

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who tf pinged me and then deleted?

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no one knows what tf stat 110 is

royal forge
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😂

tulip sapphire
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dont know, dont care

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xd

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u could say a sentence with topics that it covers

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ah yeah youre def gonna need that

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youre gonna need more though

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yeah this looks like a first year undergrad class that youd want to take

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to get an intro to stats

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with QR i feel like you generally want more datasci knowledge as well

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so some class that familiarizes yourself with pandas, apache spark, and regressions

quasi orbit
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Just chat gpt

tulip sapphire
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off the top of my head, ofc there's way more

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a further prob class would be nice as well

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as deep as you can

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spark is a very specific example that i was asked abt, dwai if it's not on ur resume

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Regression is sth you can def work on

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also it's useful to know a bit more abt MCs just so that youre better at DTMCs by knowing how to work with Erlangs as well as CTMCs generally -- stat 110 only covers DTMCs which is all youll be asked abt but further queueing theory knowledge helps you consolidate the basics imo

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sure i can add you

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ima be offline in a bit to go work on my graphics engine side project so i may be delayed in responding to you haha

rose holly
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Booz Allen Hamilton vuln research -> Raytheon reverse engineering -> Mandiant FLARE reversing -> Google project zero

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🙏

tulip sapphire
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doesnt seem like anything special, seems like a standard probability class?

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maybe even a bit less rigorous given how they dont seem to cover info theory (at least i didnt hear entropy mentioned above) or CTMCs and have a lot of topics which seems to imply an emphasis on breadth over depth

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like it does seem good for quant interview prep, but not specifically more than any other school's prob class lol

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i think this is just spatial locality speaking lol

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(you only remember hearing abt this cuz you associate yourself with Harvard)

tulip sapphire
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can't have any false positives.

long raft
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What’s MRS?

dense canopy
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Is faang prep enough to clear the coding portions for qt?

dense canopy
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Akuna capital and drw has it

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Really sheesh

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Even the harder tier faangs like fb/goog

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Are you sure?

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I didn’t expect a trading position to be like that though

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Google has one of the hardest interviews as well

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And it’s harder than that

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Which firm?

clear grove
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idk about akuna qt but akuna qd final was like lc easy with harder math

dense canopy
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That’s dumb how they ask harder coding qs in their qt than qs position

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Why I wanna know

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That’s extremely low

broken thorn
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starts with a b and ends with an l

shell gazelle
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BOERBOEL

floral locust
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I think u made the best choice based on what u want u were looking for

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In EV space radix is probably best, but hrt wlb is better and also has a much more mature and developed tech stack

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I think median performer is higher in general

barren steeple
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ye i just blocked that capricorn guy hes really annoying I advise everyone do the same

floral locust
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Radix is already quite profitable but the expectation is that they’ll do even better in the future since they have quite a lot do room to grow

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I think it’s similar to like would U join G or a startup

barren steeple
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isnt radix terrible wlb tho? I thot hrt was much better wlb

floral locust
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I think u mentioned u might wanna move to FAANG at some point in which case hrt is more well known to tech than radix which is another consideration

tulip sapphire
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nah if the pay is comparable then 100% do radix>hrt, as radix is expanding less rapidly and has also been doing better recently, right?

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i feel like HRT pay was higher for her to have made the decision as she did

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but im also guessing

floral locust
tulip sapphire
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yeh ofc not the only reason why you made the decision but i suspected this

tulip sapphire
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and my friends who are at HRT ng are recently joining

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so no info there

floral locust
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I think hrt js don’t put much stock into the actual hours u put in

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During internship

dapper iris
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no one does in general

tulip sapphire
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nah every quant firm has growth opportunities, sure you may be missing out on higher ceiling but idt you can go wrong with your choice

floral locust
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Don’t cit interns have to grind for certain teams?

tulip sapphire
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unless HRT expands way too much and has layoffs 📿

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(praying against that happening)

dapper iris
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dont think so if u do a lot in v little time

floral locust
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Just go to js after ezpz

tulip sapphire
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and that grindset toxicish culture sticks around

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idk i may be wrong

floral locust
tulip sapphire
tulip sapphire
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but hot take: idt any trading firm has good wlb

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you should be going in with the grindset mindset

broken thorn
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rnadom dude have u gotten any offers before i want to know how seriously i shud take ur hot takes

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oh misread

floral locust
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I’ll just coast as md at kkr

broken thorn
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i thought he said "grindiest mindset" not "grindset mindset"

floral locust
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Those mean the same tho right

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Holy rope

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Hmmmm

floral locust
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Lol there’s not quota

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Yea every trader anywhere has to do a lot of coding

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They seem to have smart people

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I got roasted by an imo gold for my interview

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So many ex gqs shops lol

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Aquatic radix headlands and more probably

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Recruiter?

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I don’t even wanna think about how much gqs head makes

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The oa was just like do u know how to find lagrange lol

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Does this imply aquatic is like longer time scale trades?

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Aquatic founders probably could contribute a lot to their capital

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They’re also backed by Paloma

tulip sapphire
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wait idt they have training at all

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huh isnt this contradictory? if you think itll work out then wouldnt you want to join rn so you can make partner

i think you mean "itll work out just not good enough to be worth the opportunity cost in just going to an established firm and grinding"

tulip sapphire
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oh devg beat me to this xd

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yeah they have the dude who made the Godbolt compiler explorer

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they and Ansatz are lesser known firms who have established their legitness through employees appearing at cppcon

tulip sapphire
barren steeple
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Whats hrs/week like at most firms? Like 50?

tulip sapphire
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9-5

barren steeple
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9-5 💀

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i prefer 11-3

broken thorn
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ok sweet, same for me

tulip sapphire
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or 9-6

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they also said this to me

broken thorn
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collect badge on first day, make first and only commit, spend next 11 weeks collecting ur checjs and return offer

tulip sapphire
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but im going off of what i would do if i was at a small firm with no info

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id work as hard as possible to guarantee a ro

tulip sapphire
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anime girl pfp ppl are always the most cracked

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that female rowlet 👀

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idt anyone will tell you to work less

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actually ig they will if you complain abt it

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or give the outlook that youre overworked/stressed

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nah i think this is common

broken thorn
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ngmi

tulip sapphire
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ofc theyll say that in an interview

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wdyt theyll say? "we like to have bad WLB"

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i do think HRT is better abt it tho

floral locust
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You’ve been asking the same questions for the past year, and the questions are easily answerable without asking someone, so it’s just wasting a lot of peoples time. You also ask multiple people the same question too. You also act quite entitled to have answers when everyone is taking time out of their day to answer you with no benefit to themselves. You also don’t update any of your beliefs even when more informed sources contradict what you say, so it feels like any advice falls on deaf ears.

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Like what’s the point of asking questions if you’re not updating any prior beliefs and trying to argue

tulip sapphire
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bruh google "exaggeration", dont focus on the timeframe, focus on the actual message

final forge
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@acoustic spade why are u like this

lyric loom
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wrong guy WazowskiStare

final forge
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no shot

acoustic spade
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STOP

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STOP

final forge
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Oh what

acoustic spade
final forge
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Mfer

acoustic spade
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@lyric loom U WILL NEVER WORK IN QUANT

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WHY R U IN HERE

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GO BACK TO MCONDLADS

final forge
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Yes they ask simple addition and multiplication tables up to 7x7. Got me good sadge

tulip sapphire
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bruh that was not the point of his msg LOL 😭

final forge
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No they asked me 6x7 and I didn’t know PepeHands

tulip sapphire
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"harassed"

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😭

shell gazelle
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You trolling?

broken thorn
tulip sapphire
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"memed on" would be more accurate

final forge
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oof male in late teens to early 20s, sorry bud

broken thorn
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lol room is backwards

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american flqg wrong

dense canopy
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Okay guys

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If a lot of people are complaining about my behavior

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I’ll own up to it

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And do better from now on

fast gazelle
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anyone here interviewed at Crabel Capital

lost stratus
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i only got an oa from crabel

fast gazelle
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they’re asking for ssn and mothers maiden name

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is that a good sign

lost stratus
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some do like dexterity

fast gazelle
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jump crypto

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coinbase

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alameda

lost stratus
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this one advertises an internship

fast gazelle
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does coinbase have a quant arm

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or market making

lost stratus
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they rely on other firms to be mm's

fast gazelle
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ok that’s my dream job if borabora Capital doesn’t work out

hasty hill
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@forest cobalt i can't force you to stop running your message deletion script or whatever but i will ask you to reconsider it and remind you we have logs

hasty hill
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even if it's not a script, we generally don't like that sort of mass deletion

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historically, people who do that are posting some strange things

rose holly
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this is a violation of our privacy

hasty hill
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That implies privacy is a right and there are no rights here

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QED

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quant level proof

rose holly
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time to drop out

hasty hill
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Necessary condition is void

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Predicate logic falls apart

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QED x 2

rose holly
hasty hill
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Alternately, you may prove the contrapositive (10 pts).

rose holly
hasty hill
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no, imagine a more handsome person

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do that 3x

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that's me

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@simple rapids @therealcolindavis @simple rapidslegit @simple rapidsofficial

rose holly
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he's a fellow amazonian

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zon is KNOWN for hiring handsome-alos

hasty hill
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[redacted]

rose holly
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unironically kirb is right

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NO

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CAN WE BAN

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CAT PICS

hasty hill
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we banned kpop and it worked pretty well

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idk about pallas cats

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they are pretty cool

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😼

zenith maple
rose holly
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which one is it

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make up ur mind

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hahahaha ur coping

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arent cha

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NO

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NO NO

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NOT ALLOWED

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NIEN NIEN

austere maple
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i go to top 4 worst unis in uk. I have no a levels due to covid lock downs. I am doing comp sci and predicted to get a 1st. grad in 2023 no internships due to covid lockdowns. What are the chances of me becoming a quant dev.

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is it over for me

rose holly
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zero

zenith maple
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Didnt know they keep track

rose holly
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u have two options, be the son of one of the directors OR have 2 faangs under ur resume

austere maple
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i saw a tiktok saying its top 4 worst

rose holly
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tiktok ranking

austere maple
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lel

rose holly
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tiktok mfs hate on waterloo

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they're coping

austere maple
rose holly
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ya u gotta make up for the lack of prestige

austere maple
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does it have to be faang tho

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cant it be like uk telecommunications company

cloud spear
rose holly
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username checks out

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harsh truth is that ur pfp is not realistic

final forge
austere maple
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over for me.

austere maple
final forge
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gotcha

austere maple
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my uni isnt target

rose holly
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u can probs crack a finance related firm but not quantshops

final forge
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yea idk shit about the uk, but worst 4 unis in uk doesn't sound like a recipe for success. in the US maybe if you're also actually cracked you might get into some mid firm, but realistically no intern + bad uni = resume in the bin at most places

rose holly
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eh

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op still has time to get internships

final forge
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oh yea if they do maybe it's less hopeless, I'm just going off "no interns"

rose holly
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WE'RE ALL GONNA MAKE IT

final forge
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teamwork makes the dream work

rose holly
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gif looked annoying

austere maple
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im so blackpilled rn

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so over for me

final forge
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lmao y is quant ur only option

rose holly
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u still got a shot at faang

austere maple
broken thorn
final forge
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idk if uk is way more finance based, but in america land it's not exactly a common result

rose holly
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don't u guys hate this emoji ✍️

austere maple
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i grad next year and i turn 22.

rose holly
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brosike

austere maple
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with no experience

broken thorn
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my cousinf got faang at 29

rose holly
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uve got a whole year ahead of u

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wtf

broken thorn
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ur not too kate

rose holly
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already giving up?

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MF

final forge
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just get a normal swe job it's ok lmao

rose holly
austere maple
rose holly
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no almost anyone can get faang

final forge
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whomst the f coped me, I'd rather be in tech rn shit sucks sadge

austere maple
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also do u know how shit uk pay is lol

broken thorn
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faang is a normal swe job

austere maple
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its 30k average grad salary

broken thorn
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non faang is boomer

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dino

rose holly
final forge
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presumably 30k ng isn't bad in the uk? just L vs ameribux wages

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tfw amazon isn't big tech KEKW_RECESSION_EDITION

austere maple
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30k london is poverty

zenith maple
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Amazon isnt faang

rose holly
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wtf

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30k a year

final forge
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lmao healthcare costs are irrelevant to techbros

rose holly
hasty hill
austere maple
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oh yh and 20% tax lol

zenith maple
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Hey now mr mod

rose holly
hasty hill
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bro said banana aint a fruit

rose holly
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ITS NOT

broken thorn
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anazon isnt faang it stanfa for facebook apple alphabet netflix google

austere maple
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its so over for me man. ill be in eternal poverty. i wont be able to break about the wagery cycle. #EndWagery

fast gazelle
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this tbh

cloud spear
austere maple
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what if i do computational finance masters to buy time

broken thorn
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=america

dim spade
broken thorn
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america is th citadel amazon cornell of countries

rose holly
hasty hill
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scandinavia is the hypsm of the world

dim spade
broken thorn
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unironically

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have u been to copenhagen

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fuckin spotless

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beautiful city

rose holly
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fuckin denmark peep

austere maple
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i wanted to get into quant so i can become the next SBF

rose holly
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they dont like my kind sadcat

dim spade
rose holly
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cant ever live there

broken thorn
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also they have two 7/11s 100 feet from eachother in the train station

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which is funny

hasty hill
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bro why do i wanna be in a spotless city, a sterile hellscape of 6 week PTO white collar workers who eat raw fish

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take me to latin america

rose holly
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YES

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SO MUCH THIS

broken thorn
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bro

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sterile hellscape?

rose holly
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why

broken thorn
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kirb we going to denmark next spring

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whether u like it or not

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ur being co verted

rose holly
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ohuh

cloud spear
rose holly
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i LOVE RAW FISH

hasty hill
cloud spear
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guess you're the problem

hasty hill
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i am going to get stepped on

rose holly
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L

hasty hill
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and thrown to the loch ness monster

cloud spear
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ez

rose holly
cloud spear
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case study #1

rose holly
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no

hasty hill
broken thorn
rose holly
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yes.

rose holly
hasty hill
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wdym why it's called a family tree

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u have family trees, latinos have forests

rose holly
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why tho

broken thorn
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family trie

cloud spear
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raw fish bad that's why

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people who enjoy sushi are objectively wrong people

hasty hill
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alabama has one tree, many many many branches

hasty hill
broken thorn
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sushi but the fish is cooked

broken thorn
cloud spear
rose holly
hasty hill
# broken thorn family trie

what would this even be, trie allows optimized search for any discrete sequential, branching n-ary data set

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so what does a family trie accomplish

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entertain me

broken thorn
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is that what a tree is

hasty hill
dense canopy
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Wdym

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No

rose holly
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im so bored

hasty hill
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trie[a][b][c]

broken thorn
rose holly
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soy move

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^ im gonna delete my msgs

dense canopy
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No I’m in college

rose holly
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drop out

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fries

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dense canopy
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@robust totem what were you tryna say tho?

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If it was based on my past messages I said I was gonna stop, you guys gotta stop with the disrespect

rose holly
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you guys gotta stop with the disrespect

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THATS MY PROF

cloud spear
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wait random question @rustic wind so is algo engineer at HRT considered a generalist swe role?

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since I've noticed most people I see working at hrt are algo swe

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huh wack

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I thought it was like

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a super tryhard version of swe

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because algo makes me think mathy

floral locust
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Algo eng just helps with like data processing I thought

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And like support the ad’s idk

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HRT HRT HRT HRT HRT

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?

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Getting the mullet trimmed

rose holly
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L google

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i dont know why

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i dont get why people have a hard on for google

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G step?

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money

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its all i care about

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doesnt matter if its big g or hrt

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just pay me muh money sadcat

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mine looks slightly better

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time to compare pixel by pixcel

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the first one is a lil distorted

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is this how we're spending our xmas?

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comparing sadcat emotes?

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wya

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ik that

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WHERE

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EXACTLY

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just gimme the state name

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ahhh

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ya wtf

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there are so many things u can do in cali

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why are u here

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not in vancouver

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we actually got snow this year

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rare asf

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na we aint been getting snow in the past few years

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uhhh

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i think so

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i heard sth about it on the news

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but i dont really pay attention

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yo bois

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chill out

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its xmas

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lets be nice to each other

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honestly

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i feel ya on that

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NEVER

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real quant try hards

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some people dont just talk about quant

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they actually grind towards it

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couldnt be me tho

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quant one?

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i thought that one got deleted

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ya wtf

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csmajors?

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wtf

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how do u get banned from that

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WTF

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@atomic quail what did u do

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he probs said sth REALLLLY OUTTA POCKET

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LIKE INSANELY OUTTA POCKET

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fair enuf sbf

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but i thought u were being trasnparent

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with ur customers

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dis shi is cringe

sand willow
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sheesh

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she is certainly

rose holly
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mf aint even tryin to throw a punch

sand willow
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a woman

rose holly
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what is a woman

sand willow
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me

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i am

rose holly
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[insert cringe conservative jokes]

sand willow
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yeah

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no

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i think

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this si a woman

rose holly
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show

sand willow
rose holly
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@sand willow WOULD'VE NEVER SEEN THAT JOKE COMING

sand willow
rose holly
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we need newer object jokes

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should've sent htis

sand willow
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bc

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im at home

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and getting dressed for oen

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rn

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💀

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@robust totem dm

rose holly
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fuck, the mods have my msg in their logs now

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career is over

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i feel like thats why u havent gotten an internship

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they're sending ur msgs to companies

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yeesh

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JUST WAIT TILL THEY COME OUT W THE DOCUMENTS

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THEY'RE USING THIS SERVER TO BLACKLIST MFS

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frfrfr no cap ong?

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frfrfrfrfrfrfrfr?

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~cap?

lost stratus
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What is this from

floral locust
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HRT HRT HRT HRT HRT

rose holly
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Cssi is for absolute beginners

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YO

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I JUST RMB'ED STH

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I RMB

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I was a beginner years ago

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lol

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I SUBMITTED MY

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AKUNA

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OA

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COMMENTING

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Cssi is for teaching the very very basics

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"IM TOO TIRED FOR THIS"

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AND I GOT REJETED THE NEXT DAY

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AM I BLACKLISTED?

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IM SO DUMB

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WHY DID I COMMENT THAT

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ON MY AKUNA OA

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Dear [Dr. Aight],

Thank you so much for your interest in Akuna and for taking the time to complete our testing round. Unfortunately, we have decided not to proceed with your candidacy for the Development Internship - Data Tooling, Summer 2023 role at Akuna Capital. The results of your testing did not meet our minimum requirements to move forward in our process. We have decided to move ahead with other candidates who we feel are a better match for this particular position.

Thank you again for your interest and your time, and we wish you only the best of luck in your job search!

Regards,

Akuna Capital Recruitment```
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THEY SENT THIS

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A DAY AFTER

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Unless I’m mistaking cssi

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For something else

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i commented "im too tired for this" and submitted the oa

floral locust
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It’s more likely they’re just full

rose holly
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Than what

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I’m probably gonna apply to it

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But I’m aiming for other things

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Nah

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Raytheon is main

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Yes

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I get to do low level security Raytheon

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What if i just keep returning to Google lol

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CSSI -> Google mandiant FLARE -> project zero pipeline

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🧖🏿‍♂️

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FLARE is like one of their hacking teams

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And project zero

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Is the most elite one

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I wanna be there in like 15 years

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Lol

zenith maple
rose holly
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Be like SBF

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is that bad?

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am i blacklisted for being a dick?

floral locust
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They won’t even look at oa

rose holly
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the email they sent

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was pre aggro tho

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Thank you so much for your interest in Akuna and for taking the time to complete our testing round. Unfortunately, we have decided not to proceed with your candidacy for the Development Internship - Data Tooling, Summer 2023 role at Akuna Capital. The results of your testing did not meet our minimum requirements to move forward in our process. We have decided to move ahead with other candidates who we feel are a better match for this particular position.

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i didnt even complete it

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oh nvm

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im over stressing

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time to complete our testing round

final forge
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Not that they did or blacklist

fast gazelle
floral locust
fast gazelle
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why would they

final forge
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Tho I wouldn’t worry about that comment at all, ik someone who wrote real snarky shit on their OA lmao

rose holly
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this is from 6 month ago

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why is yahukna so dumb

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oh thats not yakuna

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mb

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that was uncalled for

fast gazelle
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you prob need 100% on the OA

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or they didn’t like your resume and trying to be nice

rose holly
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ya i didnt even do the oa

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i just wrote a dumb comment

fast gazelle
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oh lol

rose holly
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ya

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i just typed "im too tired for this"

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and closed the oa

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couldnt be bothered at the time

tulip sapphire
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Hey guys, just wanted to wish you all a very happy holidays. Discord is filled with ready-made messages that you don't even read, you just copy and paste to every server, I don't like that, I like writing from my heart. Our friendship, from the deepest to virtual, is very important to me and couldn't ever be represented by a cookie-cutter message from anywhere. So, I'd like to thank you all, you're the best Furry Roleplay club server I've ever interacted with.

rose holly
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Hey guys, just wanted to wish you all a very happy holidays. Discord is filled with ready-made messages that you don't even read, you just copy and paste to every server, I don't like that, I like writing from my heart. Our friendship, from the deepest to virtual, is very important to me and couldn't ever be represented by a cookie-cutter message from anywhere. So, I'd like to thank you all, you're the best Furry Roleplay club server I've ever interacted with.

nocturne estuary
lyric loom
nocturne estuary
lyric loom
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@hasty hill

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spammer

nocturne estuary
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Stop it

lyric loom
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no fuck u

nocturne estuary
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It’s a drippy chicken it belongs in quant

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This chicken got offers from HRT, Radix, Headlands, Cit, and JS

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Not DRW tho it was too hard

fast gazelle
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@lyric loom

nocturne estuary
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Remember the poo poo cry

rose holly
nocturne estuary
lost stratus
fast gazelle
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im not 20 yet so i can still make it copium

zenith maple
hasty hill
lost stratus
zenith maple
nocturne estuary
nocturne estuary
drifting pelican
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What firms are best for intern returns?

zenith maple
fast gazelle
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i agree

tulip sapphire
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if manual then ur lame

nocturne estuary
long raft
hasty hill
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@lyric loom u are being asked a question, pls respond

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🙄

zenith maple
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SCREAM IF YOU LOVE SYRIA

zenith maple
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@lyric loom

fringe flint
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Sometimes I have to remind myself this chat contains the nation’s future talent in statistics, mathematics and computer science

floral locust
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Quant sucks up all the talent and turns them into money printing machines

fast gazelle
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@lyric loom wazzup

fringe flint
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its only a matter of time before an ml alg is built to analyze tinder messages and find optimal pickup lines

sand willow
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sm1 know what the solution to this is

zenith maple
scarlet vine
clear grove
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yeah thats what i think too

sand willow
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yeah no i realized that

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i cant actually read

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i got that

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but thought textbook said 1/2^n-1

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and im like wut

scarlet vine
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It’s basically just, given a point on a circle, treat it as a starting point, what’s the probability that all remaining points are within a semicircle away from that starting point, so n * (1/2)^n-1

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Yea no it’s that times n

final forge
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am I high? aren't those both wrong?

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wait fuck me I need to think more :(

broken thorn
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no real explanation tho, just feels like the right answer

zenith maple
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i agree

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it came to me in a dream

final forge
stray lava
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can easily google it

broken thorn
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1/2^(n-2) then

floral locust
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It’s n/2^(n-1)

royal forge
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based devg

floral locust
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Any semicircle can be oriented such that some point is at the top and the rest of the points are to the right

final forge
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I just did the math for n=3 by hand and that checks out rofl. brain small haven't done stats since freshman year idk if I want to try and convert my conditional probabilities to an actual expression :(

floral locust
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n points can be at the top with equal probability so multiply by n

final forge
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yessir how to account for the shifting -- ohh fuck me

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something seems subtle about that

fringe flint
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Ask chatGPT for the answer

final forge
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nope logic checks out sheesh I'm just dumb

floral locust
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Hexis already said what i said p much tho

final forge
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I was working on probability of size of segment covered -> probability of size+1 lmao not smart

broken thorn
final forge
# broken thorn wherr does the n come from, it doesnt pass my vibe radar

what is the probability that all n-1 points lie in the semicricle to right of some point? 1/2^(n-1). how many points are there? n. if there is a semicircle that holds all n points, there is only 1 point that has all other n-1 points to the right of it. (excluding all points on the same spot/all points on exactly the opposite part of the circle, but real numbers, probability zero, ignore yada yada smart people math)

rose holly
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L

final forge
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u don't even need apstats to do this problem if u just have more than 3 braincells. I only have 2 sadge

rose holly
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im gonna redo cmu 213

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cuz im bored

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and i dont want to think about leetcode

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can i get a chad

sand willow
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n/2^n-1 p chill

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ecah one check if rest are in semi circle and remember it works if you start at any point

final forge
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extension to the problem: does the logic break down if you have more than 0.5 of a circle? yes because the events are no longer disjoint right? but what does it become kermit_think

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oh wait can you invert it to 1-the less than 0.5 case?

floral locust
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You probably have to use inclusion exclusion for the n-union of the points which becomes quite gross

final forge
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very very gross that sounds worse than just trying to do my conditional probability shit and simplifying it

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oh wait idk if that's what you mean or not

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welp I'm microbrained and not quant so I'll leave this question to anyone more apt than me

broken thorn
broken thorn
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1 semicircle per point

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dimensional analysis go brrr

wheat isle
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What forum is this on

floral locust
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@rose holly

broken thorn
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theres one person im certain it is not

fringe flint
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chatgpt glitched i think

sacred sun
tulip sapphire
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pod dependent

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people shit on pod dependent firms

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idk why they put Jump up that high though, probs cuz of Jump Crypto

tulip sapphire
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a lot of people still see crypto as a way to make money

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also LMFAO

image.png
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yeah it's pretty common from what ive heard

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especially by clowns who are HFT hypebeasts without even knowing that quant ≠ HFT

long raft
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Do you have a link to this forum post?

long raft
tulip sapphire
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i think their crypto division is rly good

tulip sapphire
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didnt they pull out 300 mm before ftx shut down

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i mean crypto as a whole has gone down these past 2 months

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i think theyre one of the better players

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but im also super not well-informed abt crypto

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one of my friends who is on course staff for my uni's defi class turned down a jump QR offer so maybe it isnt that good

tulip sapphire
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but like even cutting edge DNN techniques established around 2016 are in every deep learning class

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a friend of mine put our deep learning homework into chatGPT and it couldnt answer it

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long raft
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Yeah. Pre crypto crash they were the hottest classes 😂

nova dust
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If I want

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Internship at quant

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2024 Summer

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Can you give roadmap for prep

limpid nacelle
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Why do use tiers wazowskiSanta

limpid nacelle
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Rockstars at an average firm probably make much more than average employees at top tier firms dogesmile

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Did you see the joke?

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My guy joined shitty banks

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Made much more than your average employees at hrt/js

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I doubt he could have reproduce his results if he joined hrt/Js than credit suisse cuz of credit market access

nova dust
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Yeah but from where to start directly from green book?! Or learn fundamentals first?!

tulip sapphire
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imo quant dev at DESCO is better, more academic culture and you get a more quant-y role doing more QR-ish work if youre on a research-y team

and no traders xd

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actually i have a lot of places that are better than hrt/jump/js

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but no one will care cuz prestige lol

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all i want to do is be in the top 1% of income earners

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so ig i have a different objective fn than most people

barren steeple
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jump hired a singular Fulltime external new grad last year, so pretty much impossible, and he came from another too firm

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pretty much entire new grad class is interns

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recruiter told me that

limpid nacelle
barren steeple
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i want to make enough money to where I can buy whatever I want, but nto like super expensive shit like a basic 3-5 m house 100k car and spend all my money on clothes, and good wlb

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lol

floral locust
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This isn’t that controversial

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Also idk why u even mentioned citsec qt lmao it’s not even close to those 2

tulip sapphire
limpid nacelle
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I could make the same argument with the difference between top 1% and top 10%

tulip sapphire
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Sure

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But what opportunities do you know of that give new grads over 1 million tc

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Especially if only bachelors and no PhD

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I think it’s close to none lol

limpid nacelle
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Which quant firms pay 1M TC ng

tulip sapphire
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None for ug ng

limpid nacelle
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Ug?

limpid nacelle
tulip sapphire
tulip sapphire
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Let me clear it up

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Top 1% in the US: 400k+

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Top 0.1% in the US: millions lol

limpid nacelle
# tulip sapphire I don’t think you follow me

Tbh, this discussion is kinda pointless tho. I just wanted to understand why you selected an arbitrary number instead of just trying to make as much money as possible with a reasonable effort

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and to make a bit fun of you

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Will you be happy once you reach 50m?

floral locust
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HRT HRT HRT HRT HRT

final forge
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idk about jump in specific, but if u have smart people at a good firm that aren't degenerate gamblers then WEW that's impressive

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maybe I'm ok after all 4KEKW

cloud spear
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I'm ready for youtube documentaries years from now on that look at quant/trading firms like how we look at wolf of wallstreet

long raft
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When you have 50m you want 51m and so on 🥲

tulip sapphire
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I think the highest on here doesn’t break 300k

fringe flint
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Study this if you want to get a quant internship

nova dust
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🥺

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Hurts

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But okay

fringe flint
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No they literally quiz you on how fast your brain is

nova dust
fringe flint
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I was memeing but they’ll actually make you do times tables and stuff

nova dust
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But I wanted to learn prob 🥹

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Yeah failed that twice lol

nova dust
long raft
fringe flint
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No fucking way LinkedIn is so high their SWEs literally take naps during work every day

tulip sapphire
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huh there are def other firms with explicit leveling structures

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what does 2s do differently?

broken thorn
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ye, levels doesnt report on a company without levels

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hrt is one level where all is lumped for isntance

smoky fjord
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Do firms test your math & stats for SWE roles

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Or is it just for QR and QT

clear grove
clear grove
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akuna qd asked me js trading question

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also got asked newton's method question and sampling with known cdf

cloud spear
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Wtf

cloud spear
clear grove
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yes I'm a math major

cloud spear
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Oh

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Well that makes more sense then

floral locust
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akuna bar is quite high in general

cloud spear
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Unless they ask this to everyone

clear grove
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the qs were not even targeted towards math majors smh

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Boston?

floral locust
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ah, i feel like their qr and qt bar is quite high ig, don't know anything about dev anywhere

cloud spear
clear grove
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the Boston final is quite involved, 1hr+ meetings w head of qd and head of qr

cloud spear
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Did you get asked math stuff too?

clear grove
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oh I see, I never heard back from Chicago lol

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applied quite late though

cloud spear
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Were values in array from 0 to n or something like that

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Or 1 to n

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Ah

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Ok so pretty standard lc

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Maybe I'll apply for akuna next season

idle bloom
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@forest cobalt is it cool if I pm you about your work history and stuff I’m pretty interested in qd

smoky fjord
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Is this good enough for stat interview questions? I had to study this for my actuarial exam a few years ago

idle bloom
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Lol Okok thanks

royal forge
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based

barren steeple
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@forest cobalt is it cool if I pm you about your work history and stuff I’m pretty interested in qd

hasty hill
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@barren steeple is it cool if I pm you about your work history and stuff I’m pretty interested in qd

barren steeple
stable radish
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Those who actually lived there would say otherwise

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It is extremely dense. Transportation is actually awful. The T is full of crazy people.

Downtown is so smelly. Somerville and Harvard Square are actually so shit

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Delivery is also so screwed due to small streets

broken thorn
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what

stable radish
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And duplicate street names

broken thorn
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boston isnt dense

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compared to other cities no

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very quiet city

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the 4th most densely populated place in the country is my dorm room

stable radish
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Harvard Square is crumbling

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No

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I worked very close to it

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Wutt

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Bro it is a hood

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I lived in winterhill

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It is legit a hood

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Overall I would say it is a fine city

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This is the area I traveled the most

hasty hill
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if you make friends who actually pronounce it as Bahston
then it's great

stable radish
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Have u ever lived in Florida @primal shell

hasty hill
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ok but hear this man out, boston not being smelly sounds like a very strong point
i haven't been in years but this is a problem w/american cities

stable radish
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Even Floridians dont like Miami

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There are other better cities

hasty hill
#

you're wrong on 4 lol, NYC has lots of greenery and even if that doesn't scratch your itch you can just drive out 2 hrs

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this is all relative to american cities lol
mmm you can get lots of greenery in cities in the south but their greenery is horrible for seasonal allergies kekw

clear grove
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pretty small office

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no traders

wheat isle
#

I was in the area of Boston last summer where Akuna is. Incredibly nice area and I spent a lot of time walking through Boston commons eating burgers

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Boston lacks night life compared to other American cities which is a big deal to some

wheat isle
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It's cleaner, but I'd argue less consistent

tulip sapphire
wheat isle
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Yeah, but it's worth noting lines are down a lot and not open late at night like NYC

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Chicago has decent public transportation from what I've heard, don't quote me on that though

rose holly
#

do i have to be a god at math for swe interviews?

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do i just have to know my low level stuff + dsa?

rose holly
rose holly
#

quant swe

clear grove
rose holly