quants-n-traders

[long raft]

why???? 🙀

I mean if you get payed for referrals and make more than IMC then it makes sense 😉

I recently saw an instagram reel where a recruiter told he makes 500k (dont know if this true because a lot of those videos are fake anyway)

[wintry tendon]

yeah recruiters can easily make 500k

[long raft]

I mean most of the recruiters I had personal contact with were super nice and professional and responded super fast and pretty much made the experience super. So i think if you are that good and also bring in good talent it makes sense to compensate them good

[signal bloom]

What's the best IDE for C++ in mac for cross platform development?

[limpid nacelle]

It would not surprise me if you are the head or director of recruiting at a top tech company or a quant firm

On the long run, you will make much more

[long raft]

I really like Clion

[final forge]

clion is great but cross platform dev in c++ is … a doozy

[rose holly]

which broker provides real-time crypto data

[scenic bison]

Me

[rose holly]

where do i deposit 8 million dollars

[daring haven]

recruiters genuinely do make that much money

talent is the biggest bottleneck for trading firms

[long raft]

Talent in terms of talented recruiters or talented QR/Qt/Qd?

[daring haven]

the latter

there are very few people who are capable of filling those roles and actually making profit for the firms

[proven steeple]

Recruiters can make a ton of money. I know recruiters that make more that 90% of quants you know

I actually placed a senior engineer out of IMC this year for almost double what he was making

[cyan sparrow]

can you place me in jane street

[rose holly]

how does one become a recruiter tho

[limpid nacelle]

why mr?

not cool mr n3

I'm messing with you

I believe HR industry is mostly female "dominated"

so assuming a male genre is kinda weird

[proven steeple]

Yes, there’s Rentech, PDT, and others. DM me

[rose holly]

are u actually a recruiter?

probs doesnt want low quality applicants

[proven steeple]

Yep, we placed the President of Cubist who was one of the original 5 partners at PDT

[rose holly]

[proven steeple]

True

Happy to help whether it’s my clients or not

[rose holly]

do u think its realistic for someone from aws to try for quant dev?

• i go to a mid-tier canadian uni

[proven steeple]

Depends gpa matters as well

[rose holly]

ya i have a decent gpa

least i can do

[nocturne estuary]

Ok

[scenic bison]

@proven steepleshow me the light..

Message #quants-n-traders

[rose holly]

@proven steepleshow me the light..

[tulip sapphire]

DMs also work.

Headhunter is legit

[rose holly]

sheeeeesh

SHOW US THE LIGHT BRUDDAH

[proven steeple]

Anybody who wants can DM me can. I’m knowledgeable about the market and what’s going on with firms in the space. I have no problem sharing my LinkedIn privately and connect. I have already connected with a bunch of people on the server.

I’ve placed people with 20 years of experience out of firms you probably applied to and would love to work for

Don’t try to play me out. At the end of the day my time is valuable. I don’t want to get spammed because quality is a must with these firms.

[rose holly]

i hear what i want to hear

[fast gazelle]

how do I get js

I don’t want to be stuck in Chicago

[clear grove]

ik someone who got in thru the tech discovery day

i dont think sig care, i applied to swe as a 25 and then to trading as a 24 and they asked me when i was actually graduating

still interviewed me

[scenic bison]

yes

i got the recruiter call which was the only part i think but they didnt take me. They were still willing to skip me ahead in the process for next year for swe

[cobalt sable]

memorize the ligma format

[long raft]

Just out of curiosity: at that level of experience do people really have to leetcode? Like imagine you work 40+hours a week plus family commitment etc you barely can fit leetcode in there 😅

[proven steeple]

You will have to be hands on in any level of your career in quant doesn’t matter how many years in

[scenic bison]

two sigma

[thorny gate]

gpu programming course or advanced algorithms course

[rose holly]

https://tenor.com/view/repost-gif-18212333

[thorny gate]

and why

[thorny gate]

do u guys use CUDA

[barren steeple]

chicago lowkey chill

best rappers, gangs, and drug trade imo

backup plan if swe doesnt work out

start a drug empire

[fast gazelle]

https://tenor.com/view/walter-white-falling-fast-gif-18043850

[barren steeple]

i mean thats my plan this summer

i want to expand my network into "other industries" while i work as a swe

so when I comeback fulltime

eventually my operations income will match job income and i can quit

i like men

[quasi orbit]

i like men

[hasty hill]

@quasi orbit who asked

free young thug

free gunna

[timber quartz]

@smoky gulch

[runic grotto]

Wha

[quasi orbit]

shrxy not a man

u stuck in the fz bruh

big bro you started at the bottom and never left the bottom

[quasi orbit]

ur none of these traits bruh

except brown and thick eyebrows

[rose holly]

where this from

[quasi orbit]

databricks

[rose holly]

blind?

not the company the article

[quasi orbit]

no its a chinese dating website

[rose holly]

[runic grotto]

Is the op a guy

[quasi orbit]

yes its me

[runic grotto]

Gotcha

[tulip sapphire]

yeah

[tulip sapphire]

most advanced algos are stuff you can learn yourself but are more obscure/less useful but HPC is something important to be familiar with

[daring haven]

whats cuda

[cyan sparrow]

Is the class assignment based or one large project

[thorny gate]

thanks dude good points

[daring haven]

wow cool stuff

I'm reading a paperback book atm, how many RAMs does it have?

[fast mountain]

Can always download more

[tough sand]

Does anyone know how headhunters work? A headhunter from Options group reached out to me a while ago and told me to reach out again in a couple of months. Do they operate like recruiters for specific firms?

[limpid nacelle]

30%?

[floral locust]

30% is quite insane lmao

i'd estimate it lies 10-20%

we're in the wrong business brutha

better to sell the shovels than to actually dig for gold

[tough sand]

Is it better to apply through them or on your own? Never did quant internships so was wondering whether applying through a headhunter for ng would increase my chances of getting callbacks

[broken thorn]

diggy diggy hole

[leaden kiln]

😆

[rose holly]

2011 called

[rose holly]

Hey

I am a dwarf and I’m digging a hole

[runic grotto]

Are cpp hft companies primarily using c++17 or a diff version?

[foggy wing]

i think 20

[long raft]

That new cpp? I thought most companies still have a lot of old cpp code that needs to be “modernised” 🤔

[foggy wing]

idk that's just what i was told during my interviews

[long raft]

I mean they may not be using the coolest newest stuff always. You you max use cpp20 but because there is legacy code you will find lines where you dont use
Auto [x,y] = …
Or so

[rose holly]

why

[stark crow]

giga chad move tbh

https://tenor.com/view/gigachad-chad-gif-20773266

[leaden kiln]

damn

[leaden kiln]

well he didnt have to give u help

[wheat isle]

Bruh who cares, he's just a random person on the internet to you

[quasi orbit]

i mean i agree you dont owe anyone anything but if you type a lot in this server its expected that you'll get some questions

[barren steeple]

I recommend everybody blocks capricorn

hes extremely annoying

and just spams questions to people

[nocturne estuary]

RADIX SIMP LORE

Boerboel

[broken thorn]

whos capricorn

i hope yall dont mind me asking questions, i very much appreciate your answers

[cloud spear]

i'm gonna need 500 pages worth of quant interview questions plz

darn

the dream

[final forge]

NO SHOT iirc I got this at cit

[cloud spear]

I still haven't even gotten a quant interview yet

one day I'll be cracked enough

I have to

waterloo is my university's eternal enemy smh

how dare waterloo have a co-op program that is more prestigious

[runic grotto]

Where do you go

UofT?

[cloud spear]

the us uni famous for coop

[runic grotto]

Uh

That exists?

[cloud spear]

maybe not as famous for coop as I thought

[final forge]

so not a famous uni got it

[cloud spear]

other detail about the uni is that /r/a2c hates it for gaming the ranking

[final forge]

UC hicago does coops?

[cloud spear]

last time I went was start of college

in my defense

[runic grotto]

Just tell us the name

Or don't

[cloud spear]

it's a mystery ig

but also I must hate on waterloo people

because everytime I look up quant people on linkedin

it's always people from waterloo

[final forge]

wild I haven't met canadians

just random top schools

[cloud spear]

waterloo folk basically the cs 1%

[quasi orbit]

80% of interns at my current company are waterloo

They are everywhere

[cloud spear]

eat the waterloo quants

[final forge]

maybe loo is just too elite for me to know anyone form

[cloud spear]

waterloo's the canadian and slightly less evil version of cmuers

[final forge]

not incorrect

lol wtf cs side or all quant/trading?

[cloud spear]

at my company rn I've met no one from my university lmao

[final forge]

tho actually I haven't met a single US intern

some APAC intern ruined my friday which was fun

[cloud spear]

apac?

[final forge]

asia pacific

[stark crow]

loo

im yahkub’s favourite loo goer

[final forge]

mfer managed to merge code into master that only works if malloc returned unique random junk

[runic grotto]

Quant companies in general or QT/QR at HFT companies?

[broken thorn]

based

[cloud spear]

quant companies in general

[runic grotto]

Ok

[cloud spear]

but also I don't really look up QR folk

so idk

probs mainly QD and QT

[runic grotto]

They might be swe side then

[stark crow]

meanie

[cloud spear]

maybe

QR too mathy for me to even consider it

[final forge]

in fairness doesn't cause issues in prod it's test code. but my changes randomly failed unit tests that it didn't interact with at all because the memory looked slightly different

[stark crow]

west coast

[cloud spear]

btw i'm assuming not, but any boomers in this chat do their first job hop yet

and if so how long into your first job did you start searching for jobs

[final forge]

can't wait to find it and flame you

lmaoo this is also like 2 weeks after they dipped

can't flame em

[lyric loom]

YAH COOB

[broken thorn]

yah cube

[daring haven]

If you get a QT offer, would companies that previously would have resume rejected be more interested in offering an interview

[broken thorn]

for swe at finance places this is true according to hachiyuki

@floral locust how do you personally decide bankroll? do you force urself to have 50+ buyins as if you were a career player, or do you play with fewer buyins just because this is a hobby more than a main job, so you dont need to worry about losing your source of income?

[daring haven]

@broken thorn thank you

[hasty hill]

[hasty hill]

I get QT offers because i am a QT

A QT pie

🥧

[last herald]

How?

Should I just message my recruiter/campus ppl?

[cloud spear]

i like how that's the more notable detail

[runic grotto]

Wait you were right?

Wtf lmao

[cloud spear]

i'd say neu pretty chill overall

i feel like there is tbh

my guess would be like

[runic grotto]

Northeastern is in cali right

[cloud spear]

25% of /r/a2c go to /r/csmajors

that's my prediction

wait no I worded that badly

I meant to say 25% of /r/csmajors comes from /r/a2c

that's it

[cloud spear]

neu has colleges everywhere at this point tbh

fastest character arc

[runic grotto]

Tryhards smh

This makes 100% sense

[cloud spear]

honestly premed being up there explains so much about a2c culture

lmao

[runic grotto]

The one sided correlation

Wait why is taylor swift 3rd

I get she's very popular but is this a trend in all HS related subreddits

Oh right

I forget that women go to college more often then men

wait

It's that high now?

Wtf

Damn, it never feels like this cuz as a csmajors

Always surrounded by guys

[cloud spear]

is the first waterloo 💀

[runic grotto]

💀

Did you end up going to a better ranked uni

Overall or just CS

[hallow shoal]

NEU yield protect got sued?

Do you have the link lol to a news article about it?

My friend at NEU said any time but you must do a set amount prior to grad

Damn ☠️

[runic grotto]

Ah ok

JHU?

Ah

[sterile scarab]

Isn't UNC still very good for CS?

[runic grotto]

Wtf

What has been the consequences of that

Have the classes gotten worse

Ah, who takes over?

Or does the compiler class no longer exist

[scenic bison]

sad ik someone at unc and hates the cs department for how underfunded it is

[runic grotto]

I take it it's not part of the core curriculum?

[small owl]

i would like to say i got yield protected but lowkey idt they do

neu is good enough they don't need to

[runic grotto]

Not sure, it is a part of mine

[hallow shoal]

No

[hasty hill]

if you have haters you probably have some issues and should do some self reflection instead of being cringe out there

[small owl]

not mine

[runic grotto]

I def do think it's important though

[hallow shoal]

Normally it’s OOP, DS, ALGO, Computer systems

[small owl]

i mean fair but i know a person who also got into mit and harvard who got into neu so its all anecdotes

[runic grotto]

With extras too?

[hallow shoal]

As like general major requirements for Cs from what I’ve seen

[small owl]

blog poster life advice

blog poster -> self help guru pipeline?

-> ponzi schem course pipeline

[clear sparrow]

-> how to be millionaire course

[runic grotto]

You ever think SBF went down this rabbithole before the incident

[small owl]

he bought the ponzi scheme course, he didn't sell it

unlucky

[runic grotto]

[small owl]

[runic grotto]

Why is that

[small owl]

i was yield protected against

[runic grotto]

Wait can't you do that and then edit them out when applying for the next school

Or am I forgetting

[small owl]

yea

i wonder if that's a good strat

[runic grotto]

Too easy to game imo

Maybe, none of us are admission officers so it might be hard to say

[small owl]

This is why I want to go to John Stanford Mellon Institute of Technology

[runic grotto]

I had a stroke reading that

But somehow that was very effective communication

[hallow shoal]

That feel when everything on college apps is “optional”

But everyone knows it ain’t 😭

[runic grotto]

It might be if you're an IMO medalists, I'm curious if people have tried

[hallow shoal]

My friend at Harvard knows an IMO medalist and they only got a 2- on their application ☠️

[runic grotto]

I guess that's true

[hallow shoal]

But they said it’s prob cause they didn’t try on essays

[runic grotto]

How did they know their score? They got in?

[hallow shoal]

They go to Harvard too

[runic grotto]

Oh ok

[cloud spear]

what's the max score

[hallow shoal]

It’s like 1, 1-,2+,2,2-

And it keeps going up. I’m not too sure about what constitutes who gets in but there are lots of videos online

That talk about it

[fast gazelle]

https://tenor.com/view/hshyshuwnujsums-gif-19379811

[hallow shoal]

But I heard that for IMO they just talk to the college say I wanna go then they get in . They have to apply formally though

[broken thorn]

@hasty hill

https://twitter.com/Silo5000/status/1616199851343228928

Silo (@Silo5000)

Hope Biden can get a commentary slot at Genesis with Armada

"Here's the deal, the the boxx players, they got these angles. And back when I was a kid growing up in Connecticut, the- we didn't have the slippi"

"Ehhhh yeah dewd I fink that's a good edgeguard"

▶ Play video

Twitter · Jan 19, 2023, 10:24 PM

[hasty hill]

[broken thorn]

also

https://twitter.com/TheSWOOPERR/status/1616164557667602434

rank 33 in the world right here @hasty hill

look at the message its reply to

[ornate solstice]

Bro why?

Anyone here actually doing quant stuff?

[ornate solstice]

Feel like its so rare, i just wanna buy a ferrari 458 as fast as possible

Gotta talk to these people

[runic grotto]

Do you believe you’re intelligent enough to thrive at a quant company

[ornate solstice]

Kinda grandiose myself, but yes

[runic grotto]

Idk if it's grandiose, but you'd have to have the self confidence to believe you can shoot for it

[ornate solstice]

Ill take it, i definitely will shoot for it, is it super rare to work remote as quant?

[ornate solstice]

Or intern works too

Awesome congrats, where at? And what school if you want to share

How were you able to get job if you want to share? As trader or research or swe or...?

Awesome, can i dm you with like a list of questions?

[royal forge]

Based af

[royal forge]

ETH is dope

[royal forge]

Only the top 20?

😈

good school

[violet glen]

aspiring-quant tiktoks are so cringe fr

and the comments are even worse

https://vt.tiktok.com/ZS8SKyMeY/ this literally just appeared on my fyp

that said dudes from mit

[runic grotto]

I wonder what % of them make it

Wait wtf are those comments

💀 💀

[weary path]

LMAAAO

i think this is the prime time to become a quant-fluencer

just have to figure out how to tiktok

[runic grotto]

A day in the life at IMC 😭

Impeccable logic

Born asian -> quant pipeline

[weary path]

I think someone already did this once,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0h9c82Ukag

[runic grotto]

Yeah but not on tiktok

Though being a tiktok influencer may shorten your lifespan

[weary path]

true true

[weary path]

Nvm this is Akuna

[royal forge]

lol

[winged aurora]

for a NG will worldQuant or maven securities provide better growth as a dev?

[long raft]

You posted on blind too? 🤔

[long raft]

You just need to wear your hottest outfit and shake booty while your models backtest… instant 100k views

I feel flattered. Normally im am the bottom 20% 🥰😂

[broken thorn]

top 200%

[tulip sapphire]

Misspelled bottom20% btw

[cloud spear]

More like top 10% and bottom 10% tbh

People in the middle out touching grass

[broken thorn]

people at the very top join once a month to ask for advice

[whole abyss]

Looking for a quantitative trader referral at Jane street capital, does anyone work there?

[weary path]

rip i did 2

but im also not cs student, checkmate

[rare rock]

after calc 3 i hate math so ig quant isnt for me

[broken thorn]

what game

[broken thorn]

interesting, i wonder why he does that game over a more popular fighting game

just stick to melee or tekken or 3rd strike

[small owl]

sushi

getting into quant is not as easy as getting into swe though tbh

faang requires like a couple weeks of effort to crack

and a bit of luck

[rose holly]

[broken thorn]

precondition violated

[cyan sparrow]

tiktok comment section is microwave iq

[obtuse flame]

[obtuse flame]

Which firms hate it when you do a video like this? I feel like some really like secrecy

[hasty hill]

Reply to him and ask how it feels to be banned

On discord

[small owl]

that's probably a different sushi

common name

the existence of sushi 3 implies a sushi1 and sushi2

wait i thought you had cit?

collecting all hfts 🙀

oh nvm

i saw that one before

idgi why code on the stairs

here at hrt we don't believe in chairs

[runic grotto]

Staged photo

[rose holly]

their oa

was sth else

u had ro write ur own test

i ffffffffffffucking hated that shit

[rose holly]

we get it

ur better than than us

yet

u ranked 50th on the putnam exam

its insanely gud

like god tier

good

the top 100 individual scorers have their names mentioned in the American Mathematical Monthly

and its difficulty is such that the median score is often zero (out of 120) despite being attempted by students specializing in mathematics

most people cant solve a single fucking question

ur friend probs got 3/120

its 12 questions 10 points each

cracked

hes def going places

its fine

people already know im insane

[ornate solstice]

Interning summer 2023?

Lmfao you wont, but you might get ro waitlisted

[ornate solstice]

Who? Yahkub?

[rose holly]

good one

L

oh this yahkub

i thought

u meant yahkuna

[ornate solstice]

Lol did you?

Are you sure?

Jk lol congrats on the offer, and good luck, make sure to get a mac

I just wanna know who ranked 50th

[zenith maple]

yahkub sigma as usual tbh

im ranked 49 in putnam

[rose holly]

are u sure about that

[rose holly]

sigh

is this the same yahkub who got holdman

[zenith maple]

goldman is a faang

[rose holly]

frfrong

[winged aurora]

oh yea i saw numer.ai its some pretty cool stuff

[winged aurora]

yea hahahahahaah gotta get info from everywhere

didnt manage to pass Optiver & HRT hais, only lower tier quant companies

[rose holly]

*goldman

[winged aurora]

yea only got worldquant and maven securities

hr flushed me out from optiver cuz shes a bitch

[fast gazelle]

@half ginkgo can I get amazon referral

[rose holly]

maven capital

[fast gazelle]

2000

[rose holly]

lol

[obtuse flame]

Driving a car in nyc

[ornate solstice]

I wonder why

[weary path]

nono was akuna my bad

😂😂wild

[ornate solstice]

Mfs resume screened me, gl fr

[long raft]

Do you also get to work in your $5 million vehicle? People always envy me for using the SBB 😎

[long raft]

When the bonus hits the bank account you can treat yourself with that Day class upgrade 🫡

I wonder if people really buy that for a 1-2h ride

[obtuse flame]

Does sig blacklist if you fail the hr phone for trading intern?

Planning to apply to the internship again

[hallow shoal]

Why didn’t I get this for my final interview 😭

Did they recently have merch for HRT final?

[candid root]

For a year

[hallow shoal]

maybe my inbox didn't receive :(( Oof

oh . Let me see if still active lmao

good luck !

good luck you got this!

[long raft]

for other locations it seems like they have less headcount.
London HQ sounds really fancy. Wouldnt mind working there

Heard it is a totally new office

With that kind of money you can spend every weekend in SoF 😂

or maybe barcelona if you want really cheap flights

not a lot of data out there but according to levels quite a lot

you will pay london tax so that smth to consider

I wouldnt mind. Sounds like a fun place

[nocturne estuary]

LONDON

[nocturne estuary]

UK RAP OR UK DRILL

[hasty hill]

FREE YOUNG THUG

[hasty hill]

I hope you and I get laid off and start our own company

Yahkub River Trading

[nocturne estuary]

can always count on you

[nocturne estuary]

I feel the same way

Mainstream Drill died with pop smoke it’s nice to see it return

[obtuse flame]

Tyty

[nocturne estuary]

Ok

[burnt tree]

How long it usually take for citadel to get back to you after leadership call

okay thanks!!

[thorny gate]

damn they still doing leadership calls for summer?

[burnt tree]

Yeah just had one last week, but I totally boomed it😭

[runic grotto]

I would be a bit more confident than pretty sure

[nocturne estuary]

well my friend who actually does journal research in preparation for getting a PhD got a lot of quant research interviews

QR roles are primarily made for masters/PhD level, if they really will take you as an undergrad, they probably want to see that level of thinking and application through those kinds of ways

[lyric loom]

@nocturne estuary

they don’t like each other

[nocturne estuary]

if you don't want to do published research, then you can always do like self study in the quant space, i would probably implement some pricing models or something i dunno

[rose holly]

yo

who ping

[nocturne estuary]

yeah?

[rose holly]

@nocturne estuary

[nocturne estuary]

I was not the one who pinged

[rose holly]

probably yahkuna

he always pinging

[nocturne estuary]

this was just a hypothetical if you don't want to

it is definitely not necessary but yeah having presented at a conference is probably a pretty big flex

what role though

QR, QT, SWE

oh yeah i dunno i just do swe things so nothing i say is really coming from life experience

probably green book and a lot of math

and research

i think it would be research

because qr is all about open ended work right, so is research

so seeing that you have proven yourself in that way would be beneficial

also like

all these companies hire from big conferences

they have their tables and sponsor

[hasty hill]

irrelevant to quant STOP

[nocturne estuary]

actually it is very

sorry Kirb

[weary path]

man what is this 😂 are people optimising TC even before attending uni?

[rose holly]

@lyric loom

@fast gazelle

which yahkuna is better

thats a good mindset

the earlier you start the grind the better off you'll be

@lyric loom you’re the bad one

Change your name

[floral locust]

@rose holly

[floral locust]

bruh i didn't find out about this industry until like junior year college lmao

i think people are more inclined towards one of qr or qt and both can make a lot of money

[hallow shoal]

blog post life advice blessed

[floral locust]

you won't be able to start a firm junior year uni

sure, is there any specific reason you'd like to start a firm?

y not just shoot to be a team lead

[runic grotto]

🤔isn’t that closer to the startup world in general rather than quant specifically

[hallow shoal]

Any reason for this industry specifically?

[floral locust]

IB is quite orthogonal to quant lol

rip

[fast gazelle]

@ruby geode griffen do layoffs

[hallow shoal]

I swear you just watched the logically answered video about consultants lol

[rose holly]

@half ginkgo yo

[rose holly]

Hi

[signal charm]

any firm still hiring swe?

[floral locust]

who ru arguing w/ lol

[full ridge]

why would i care about being important lol

u must be really important

not important enough

yes

[fast gazelle]

i think you’re lost

you need to touch grass to make decisions

no

quants are the code monkeys of finance

if I make a change to google’s ad codebase that increases revenue by a few million, im making important decisions?

how is that being important tho

you’re not leading the direction of an organization

scale isn’t the question

you’re still getting more refreshers and promotions

then what’s your point

I for one wouldn’t consider a code monkey important even tho they of course add value

a director is important

the hs kid was hinting at more manager or executive roles

not just being a good employee

quant firms are only good for swe

Can’t you make more in trad finance

exit into ftx

[lyric loom]

MEESTA

🦝

[fast gazelle]

BOG

[final forge]

tbh I've been thinking about what would actually make me happy a fair amount lately, I don't think extra free time or extra money would make me any happier. a raise would probably only make me feel better because I'd feel more valued by my company, not because I would actually use the money for anything

lol why interact with a dumb larper

[scenic bison]

lol

larpers

[broken thorn]

tbh if i had 100m net worth i prolly just singlehandedly fund a melee esports scene

and then live in a niceish house

my ego is attached to my tc rather than net worth, so id still have a job

[fast mountain]

Invest in tbills
TC: 5mil

[broken thorn]

how

do u do that

idc about taxes tbh

my ego attached to my pre tax income

[weary path]

short -> make money. the one secret hedgies dont know about

[broken thorn]

https://twitter.com/DrILikeTheStock/status/1617829440586928128?s=20&t=JWmrNAuJZ7fwanJoRiy7iw

I like some stocks (@DrILikeTheStock)

@GRDecter @jpr007 They frontrun every retail trade
They sell options then manipulate the underlying so that the option becomes worthless

Twitter · Jan 24, 2023, 10:19 AM

lolol

ken griffin is the arbiter of expiration dates

[thorny gate]

just did the sig discovery day OA, got all public cases in like 25% of the time and got rejected in 12 hours

probably because I ghosted them for the internship

[thorny gate]

isnt it just for brits

[daring haven]

i did, got rejected but i know someone who got it

[feral topaz]

market crash -> sell

[weary path]

nono i worked with GR to promote this in switzerland

[floral locust]

ZUG

[weary path]

zurich

but how u know zug

[broken thorn]

people say playing MTG for money is not worth because you could jus tplay poker instead. devg says poker for money is not worth cuz you could just become a quant instead

is there anything beyond quant that makes quant a waste of effort?

or is that the sink node of being greedy

nvm i misremembered

perhaps day trading small stocks?

[limpid nacelle]

Waz

[daring haven]

😳

[limpid nacelle]

[static musk]

for technology?

i havent heard back after doing it last week and also passing them all

[limpid nacelle]

Quick reminder that for competitive places, an OA is just a filter before a 2nd or 3rd resume screen

[thorny gate]

then how did I pass their internship resume screen

and they kept on trying to get me to interview but I said no

actually i didnt even say no i never responded

[limpid nacelle]

Requirements change

Did you get an offer?

Or just interviewed

[thorny gate]

nah i passed first round and ghosted them before final

[limpid nacelle]

Why did you ghost them?

[thorny gate]

cuz i got better offer

[limpid nacelle]

Why did you apply at SIG again then?

[thorny gate]

to have fun in the insight day

[limpid nacelle]

Maybe they don't want to waste their time with you

[thorny gate]

makes sense

[limpid nacelle]

If you interned at a much better firm, they know you are going to renege

Or decline the offer

[thorny gate]

not sure if its much better

[limpid nacelle]

Sexing with RenTech

:RenTechChan:

[weary path]

wait who in rentech?

[ornate solstice]

Was under the impression rentech didnt even have an application website, thought they only ever reached out to others to hire

Also rentech salary kinda low right? Just that access to medallion fund is ez millionaire

It looks like they have a website where you can apply

[long raft]

I don’t like that. Their old website was soo functional and beautiful 😦

[weary path]

i sent them an email a few years ago and they said you just apply via email

[floral locust]

one guy at imc used to work in switzerland so he was talking about zug and crypto lol

[neat junco]

not too bad

lots of c++ tho

[tulip tinsel]

Why was I pinged

I’m in man Francisco rn

Far away from HRT

This place is like a tech startup but a city

It’s weird

Yeah everything is done with some app

Instead of a physical button to unlock my gate I use a failing unicorn app

Yes

Yeah pretty much

No Home Depot you use another recent ipo down 90%

Half of these places

Do that

Btw

Yeah

Even Jane street, they just change their pool every few weeks

Nah

Lmao

Why do they all ask these dumb standard leetcode

De shaw asked me 3sum

Loool

Behavioral ?

Or trivia

Yeah makes sense

Headlands is also@mostly the same

But one guy can come out and troll you

LOOOL

Idk why they cap to me

About that

We’re they waitlisting me or some shit

Waiting for other candidates

Don’t see why they can’t just be arresting yo

Straight up

“You don’t move on goodbye”

[floral locust]

what happened?

[tulip tinsel]

I got cut after 7 interviews

Huge waste of my time

Also de shaw failed me at reference check

After like 5 interviews a background check and transcript

[floral locust]

oh yea that seems p normal

[tulip tinsel]

I think it was bc of transcript

[tulip tinsel]

They need to filter at the start better

[floral locust]

yea seems reasonable given the firm's repuatation

[tulip tinsel]

Why the fuck didn’t they do that first

They wasted me so much time

It cannot be that hard to check transcript before you interview

Must save a lot of time too

[floral locust]

you might've been opportunistic hire

[tulip tinsel]

Yeah ik I have a C in networks and Latin American movie history

And business 101

I barely passed business 101

Do their interviewers just have a lot of free time or something

Like don’t they get mad for spending hours asking 3sum every week jsut to reject based on transcript

My vibe was great on all intervuews

One of them went like 30 minutes over

Cuz we were just rambling about gpt

Rip

My interview was mostly ez

Or like all ez

Nothing over LC medium

Oh lol

Idk alien dictionary is a hard but it’s like a standard one

But that sucks

They asked me about some matrix operations that I barely rmembered

Lmaooo

what’s ur favorite theorem

Pretentious ivy people

Yeah and a bunch of midwits from Yale

[tulip tinsel]

incredibly based

'most dont

[tulip tinsel]

2 asked for trasncript

and gpa is on resume

my gpa is kinda low

fwiw

[weary nacelle]

If I have a 3.1 GPA would I still have no chance, even with a very strong resume

[cyan sparrow]

Do they ask after offer?

[tulip tinsel]

Then idk what else it could have been

[weary nacelle]

Quant would be nice but just tryna figure out if I had a chance to begin with lol

[tulip tinsel]

I was told it was a non technical reason over the call

Lol did one of my refs fuck me

I think my first IM snaked me

After I called him the company stopped responding to bg checks too

Dumb af

[ornate solstice]

Anyone know if it's possible to get into quant (non swe) after graduation and working a couple years at faang as sde? Are there competitions or other to help get in?

[final forge]

dunno, but swe isn’t going to help you get any quant skills fwiw

[tulip tinsel]

I was new grad

I really dislike finance w/e, thinking about exchange code gives me cold sweats

Probably citadel

[floral locust]

More than 2k rofl

And like 400 total interns this year probably

Like 200-250 in the us probably

[tulip tinsel]

Holy shit

[floral locust]

Citsec is smaller than js

[hallow shoal]

Didn’t they have too many 2022 so many didn’t get return?

[zealous iris]

hey

any quants here

[barren steeple]

do most places request transcript from the school duringt offer stagte

or just ask for unnoficial transcirpot

[quasi orbit]

Which company

[barren steeple]

idk

most firms

whats the usual

[obtuse flame]

My sarcasm radar is bugging out

For SWE or trader? Cause sig trader intern is 100/hr I’m pretty sure and I’ll take them in a heartbeat

I think Optiver is under 100/hr if you just look at salary

[broken thorn]

in euro firms cap out at 20 pounds an hour with free fish and chips as the only benefit

[broken thorn]

imc culture is cool. they all degen gamblers

[barren steeple]

yeah drw seems cool but idk anyone there really

[obtuse flame]

nah base is 90

think that's with sign on?

or weird calculation

i know someone and he said 90, might be inaccurage

[weary nacelle]

Software engineering lol

[lyric loom]

@dense canopy is a nice guy

[rose holly]

no hes not

because you force others to try to convince us that you are nice

[runic grotto]

LMAO

[quasi orbit]

ayo violation 💀

[junior dew]

Capricorn mean ash

He fucked my mom

Ruined my family

🧢

Bruh I saw it

It was really fucked up

Shame on you

I know

[weary path]

that was actually me wearing a capricorn mask

[rose holly]

@floral locust is the shittiest human in this server

[cyan sparrow]

Respect @floral locust

[tulip tinsel]

@floral locust is the cutest human in this server

[weary path]

nope, just wanted them to sponsor my club so we did some promotion and workshops for them

[runic grotto]

How much did they give you

[weary path]

they were our first quant sponsors (we usually work with tech companies and consulting) so we really lowballed the number and asked for around 6k

[runic grotto]

Nice amount

[runic grotto]

First? Did you guys get more later on?

[weary path]

yeah its a fair amount imo, but that helped us get optiver and js interested

[runic grotto]

How much did they give?

Oh shit

[steady solstice]

hi all, do you folks have info on GSA capital? what is the reputation of this firm? how are their interviews for SWE?

[long raft]

Just to clarify they pay you money (like salary) or they give you money to finance the events/workshops etc?

[weary path]

the latter

[long raft]

Hahaha would be crazy if they payed you to hold events 😂

[weary path]

😂😂 maybe soon in their distinguished speaker series 😉

[long raft]

I would immediately start a quant club at my school

[long raft]

Tbh it sounds really cool that they do that. Haven’t seen smth similar at other places

[weary path]

yeah they also try to attract more academic people compared to other firms, so that might be an explanation

[azure zenith]

Number on levels is accurate.

But mine is 8 weeks

[limpid nacelle]

Is it exclusively a uni club?

[long raft]

French discord sounds way more fancy! 🤔😂

[weary path]

no not really, everyone can participate. we also organise a big ML hackathon every year and any student can participate for free.

[limpid nacelle]

Damn

I should have joined when I was in Zurich

Hopefully, next summer I will be there

[weary path]

indeed couldve won 5k

[limpid nacelle]

[weary path]

🙏🏾🙏🏾

[limpid nacelle]

What are you doing there?

Actually

[long raft]

Non eth students also can participate?

[weary path]

yeah ofc 🙂

[weary path]

help organise, acquire sponsors and various logistical stuff. same stuff as any other student club 🙂

[limpid nacelle]

Do you have knowledge sharing sessions on finance concepts?

Or similar stuff

Or like quant interview prep

[weary path]

this i am starting now, will launch an official program in june prolly. Cuz most students i know dont prep for interviews and just yolo it.

[weary path]

we had one with Gresearch but are planning to have more after exams with other companies

[long raft]

Hahaha totally feel them 😂

[limpid nacelle]

Should be in Zurich late June , unless my offer is rescinded

[weary path]

[broken thorn]

a propos de moi

[limpid nacelle]

Eth z, incoming 1st quant feeder in EU thanks to @weary path

[broken thorn]

ethereum Zurich?

[broken thorn]

what is eth z

[limpid nacelle]

Oxford and Cambridge probably top 1 and 2 in EU

[runic grotto]

Tf

[limpid nacelle]

Like MIT and Harvard fs

Not sure about Oxbridge

[limpid nacelle]

Actually imperial might top 1 in EU

[broken thorn]

thanks qr

[limpid nacelle]

These mfs have goated sponsors for their hackathon

[weary path]

yeah dont think oxbridge is much of a feeder

[broken thorn]

terra luna

gold sponsor

[weary path]

ive somehow seen more imperial undergrads in quant firms than oxbridge

but too small of a sample anyway

[limpid nacelle]

https://www.reddit.com/r/quant/comments/zhvqvn/universities_quant_feeders/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

[long raft]

I think it’s funny that there are “tiers” 😂 like Marshall wace “only paid 20k”

[weary path]

wtf why is cambridge twice as much as oxford

[runic grotto]

It's a hella quant feeder, due to sheer size of our CS program

[limpid nacelle]

Although it's very biased cuz some people don't update their LinkedIn profile

[steady solstice]

hey folks, how is the jump trading codility test?

[limpid nacelle]

I agree, better than nothing

[runic grotto]

I believe they include SWE in there, just looking at quant firms

Yeah

[limpid nacelle]

Why do you not want to include them?

[runic grotto]

The better title would be HFT feeders

3 - since are all jobs from the companies there’s a ton of people that are not directly quant

They do note that

[limpid nacelle]

When I say weren't feeders, I include all quant roles (quant dev, quant researcher, quant trader, ...)

Quant devs are technically SWEs

Is it ez to filter?

[runic grotto]

Without enough LinkedIn accounts I think so

Normally scraping is hella hard

[limpid nacelle]

What's this?

[runic grotto]

On LinkedIn

Somewhere here got banned 8 times already for trying to scrape

[limpid nacelle]

Ngl, it's ez to trash.

I mean to find drawbacks

I prefer to have a study that is not perfect than no study at all

[weary path]

whats confusing is this stat

[runic grotto]

Maybe you could do it with LinkedIn navigator and selenium or something

[floral locust]

@rose holly what’s the discussion on

[runic grotto]

If you wanted only quant roles

I believe this would include past roles, internships being key here, which would highly inflate the numbers as well

If it doesn’t then I genuinely have no clue how 21k people can be pulled from 20 companies

[limpid nacelle]

@severe talon where do you study?

I guess UCL

Yoh

I got one too

Internal one tho

I'm not from imperial

?

No uni

I graduated

Last summer

Shit uni

Not sure if I can just come and say: oh mb, I didn't know

Let me dm

[runic grotto]

I actually know this person directly

Why

Uhh

Sure ig

[limpid nacelle]

Mr hapsqur, how is the gf grind going?

[scenic bison]

lol

[nocturne estuary]

Legendary reply right here

@lyric loom you should screenshot that

That’s golden

[rose holly]

@lyric loom he’s not a good person

[fast gazelle]

@rose holly is Gary a good person

[rose holly]

no

https://tenor.com/view/gary-snail-eat-spit-gif-19521590

[near sail]

Does anyone know what to expect for trading internship oas? I have to do one for akuna and they said it’ll be a math assessment on hackerrank, but I’m not really sure what I should be studying or brushing up on

[quasi orbit]

Stats probably

I remember some of mine were like

Complete the sequence

[near sail]

Thank you!

[proven steeple]

Which prof?

He is no longer there

[gentle meadow]

who cares

lmaooo clown

if u care about prestige, u get zero bitches

[barren steeple]

also does anyone know if they are bothg assm mit guy has no resume prestige

[cyan sparrow]

????

Have some shame man

[stark crow]

They’re a troll

[rose holly]

@golden wadi

[rose holly]

banh xeo? hes not a troll

I've at least confirmed that his two sigma and citsec offers are real

Idk about anything else he's said but to that extent he is for real

[stark crow]

[rose holly]

ban me wagons u wont

@forest cobalt

whosethat

im George

[runic grotto]

[stiff bane]

why

[rose holly]

idk

[scenic bison]

yes I remember how normal you used to be

actually asking about company processes

downfall of ban xeo

[runic grotto]

No

This was the woahhh days

[scenic bison]

ohhh

true

[rose holly]

peaked at o-week

@acoustic spade

[runic grotto]

[rose holly]

Hi

[acoustic spade]

why do you talk to krishna

he's not a good person

[rose holly]

Whosethat

krishna das?

[acoustic spade]

yes

[rose holly]

I dont talk to him

@robust totem

[acoustic spade]

oh good

@robust totem

[ornate solstice]

I remember i wrote an essay for that cover letter

Got rejected

[runic grotto]

SWE or trading or both

Yeah afaik the trading bar is lower on the resume side

[ornate solstice]

Are quants even common at target schools?

[runic grotto]

What's your def of common?

[ornate solstice]

Like 1-5 in every 300+ level class with more than 30 students or something

1? Or 5?

[runic grotto]

That’s the case here too at my uni but it leans closer to 1

[ornate solstice]

I had, guess too little

Oh lol i go to doodoo school

And got rejected?

Thats crazy

Interesting

[runic grotto]

I forgot, did you end up trying to push some of your offers off season

Or would it delay graduation too much

[ornate solstice]

Rn kinda impossible to get into faang bc hiring freeze, but generally faang seems easier

[runic grotto]

You're not going to citsec?

[ornate solstice]

Anyone know like what percentage they take?

[runic grotto]

Ah ok

[ornate solstice]

Anyone know anything about tgs?

Can you buy from store?

[runic grotto]

By any chance did you renege for HRT? I remember you mentioning that a while back

[final forge]

lol uh, going to be vague, but firms get a LOT of applicants. obv smaller than faang, but like I don't think it's proportional to the number of available spots

[runic grotto]

Oh ok my memory is just fucked then

[ornate solstice]

Work for citadel, ez

Tbf not reallly, some of the best jobs with not so high or obscure barriers of entry

[runic grotto]

I don’t see it anywhere online

[ornate solstice]

Wonder this too

[runic grotto]

It might be school dependent but over here it happens very very often

[ornate solstice]

Faang to quant as like a sde3 or something is a upward move in terms of salary?

[final forge]

I have no extremely specific info, but I'd be shocked if it wasn't considerably more than that

yea that's the ballpark I'm thinking

[ornate solstice]

Amazon had like 2% or something

Or maybe thats a lie

[final forge]

does amazon actually say a %?

[runic grotto]

Less so the percentage, I think the applicant quality is much higher

[ornate solstice]

No lol

Math majors too

[final forge]

I vaguely recall some cit recruiter actually saying a number

[ornate solstice]

Wtf

Dont they not hire new grads tho

[runic grotto]

they do

How long was Netflix open for?

That might play a role

Also Citadel is the most well known out of all the quants, not sure if that plays a role

[final forge]

I don't have any detailed numbers, but I can say that I know firm wide numbers for comparable firms are a multiple of 20k/yr

maybe every math major and their mom applies to trading firms idk bro

[ornate solstice]

Okay wait how do you know this

[final forge]

I just know there are a lot of bodies

• reddit + other social media yup yup

[ornate solstice]

Prob 80+

[final forge]

yea honestly idk either, I'd guess a fair % of people who can land cit offers can also land other offers

[ornate solstice]

Rentech gotta have like 99% lol

[runic grotto]

https://www.reddit.com/r/csMajors/comments/yrrxco/linkedin_vs_citadel/

This?

[final forge]

for intern idk, but for ft I unironically think people should seriously consider if they're cut out for the grindset. I am not cut out for the grindset and I probably should have taken a tech offer over a not great trading firm

for intern, idk I'd put up for it for the resume value and opportunities maybe

FT is much more serious consideration about the lifestyle you'd live in the diff roles

[ornate solstice]

100%

Depending on where, quant is better wlb than faang lol

Goes both ways

[final forge]

the bellcurve for WLB is worse in trading

there's overlap sure, but like one of em is just fair amount worse on average

yea if you actually know you just want that sick linkedin return offer, honestly respect cuz I still have no idea what I want to do

I'm literally deceased yea

[broken thorn]

skillet mental age is "get off my lawn"

[final forge]

born in 1993 and fought in 'nam

[ornate solstice]

Huh didnt know this actually

[final forge]

tfw no lawn