#quants-n-traders
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are those internships showing swe at quant firms
i thought that was just for base pay tho
damn
okay
also i thought yall were joking about mental math
in the interviews
hes talking about radix
That’s more than most yearly salaries
I need one of these internship apps to convert
That’s gonna be a 733% raise for me
but 103k for one internship
that is literally the yearly salary if i get a return offer at t-mobile rn
if you look at the comp for these places you are going to get blindsided
And BW gives a car
what
Free car rental
bro i didnt know benefits like these existed
Vactic free breakfast lunch and dinner
These are interesting benefits
I’m a freshman idk this stuff
Why does AWS pay less than amazon?
Prolly just reporting I guess
9-5?
Prolly more like 5-9 though
225/hr 😍
bro I had to do overtime at t-mobile and i didnt get paid for it
Sign on? Or monthly
I get paid $18
$20 is high af for HS students
they should at least pay overtime tho
I prolly got resume screened at DE Shaw
but you at brown
But I’m freshman
do you got projects and shit on your resume?
do swe projects work for quant internships?
what
how did you learn to make one
self learing or in school
It was pretty simple actually
Just got some time series data and started doing calculations until i found something that worked
Brownian motion
And MCS
congrats on belvedere!!! so proud
best biostats outcome
15 texas shillings per fortnight
I’ll take $72/hr any day
I just knew it
understandable
But some googling research articles
I’m thinking about doing a PyTorch tutorial, make some neural network stuff
you should check out One Capital! they pay $69 an hour
Only for 2025s
I can fake 2026 but 2025 is pushing it
isnt it a technical?
This for next season?
Trivia
What kind?
^
No clue, I made it up
Greater quantity of internet clouds or whatever the kids these days talk about
anyone got ghosted by jane street?
yes but one of my friends just straight up got resume rejected lol
he applied instantly
I mean I applied as a 27 right when it came out and didn’t get rejected yet
Waiting for the rejection
Dayum i got to live up to him
i mean as long as you get a job you'll have a better resume next time

Gl
@queen sorrel if you get an interview before taking any classes you are him
is citadel trading OA auto?
Ight I got a month to find a company that’ll interview me then
I think only swe is auto
gotcha thanks so much!
Brown?
Yep
Yeah Charlie showed me this server
Wait quant rejects sophomores even lol
I think most places do that
mmhmm
ic
im considering saving js for summer 2025 lol
idk
shrugs
i basically get 2 shots for final year stuff since our degree is normally 5 years
going into 3rd
Aug 30
Yoooo
I might be there Aug 30 but prob in Boston tbh
I have to move in
Stfu
No
Me and Charlie do
Just be better
oooooooooooof
Js looks for waterloo people specifically?
some places mention loo specifically
ramp mentioned smth about 16week stuff for loo
Oh I see
5 dogs
They have a list of schools and loos not on it
but uoft is there
But 5 IITs are
so its not just "Top N us"
lmao id rather do js > cit
i want some semblance of wlb ok
:pleading:
@pure hamlet reminds me of tower
Lies
bro acting like iit isnt the father of loo
Brown wasnt even on tower smh
Yeah exactly lol
They got university of californi on there lol
So UC riverside got a better chance than Brown 💀
actually true
Dashboard engineering at citsec
Nah US schools barely look at sat anymore
even better just apply then
All they care about are ECs
wait what
i was about to say i masked up and took that
And you get a calc to do 2x=4, final x
Yeah but on virtual everything you can use a calculator for
So ppl don’t need to know addition
I think the overhead of using the calculator is nontrivial
I wouldn’t say 2
I would use on abt 15%
like there were exponentials you def couldn’t do by hand in the time limit
Lol do you even have fruit
I would just plot the graphs and match it
when tower swe 😡
Get a cup of fruit and slowly move it outside
Bruh
Try vacuuming the flies
Or you could make a trap https://www.foodnetwork.com/how-to/articles/How-to-Get-Rid-of-Fruit-Flies#:~:text=Fill a microwave-safe bowl,on the surface to drown.
@pure hamlet <- type of mf to constexpr a mutex
Also never heard of timed mutex before
ok im pretty sure i got completely desstroyed
:welp:
shaw
final round

got hit with a bunch of random stuff and wasn't really sure how to respond
we got through like 900 questions
what is this
no like what site
doesn’t look like cppref ui
ah
these r so good
the Carl Cook optiver one was rly nice
Does Shaw send rejects or ghost?
rejects
I got recruited by a recruiter then I got fucking resume screened
Lmao what
Yeah idk
I also put I had 8 years of Python experience
What if we use c++ instead
They have 4 questions Java, python, c++ and JavaScript
Wait what lol
these r fermi mainly
numerical methods
Desco??
C++ trivia
Why tf they using js
Not in OA on app they ask
im cooked
Wdym
even quants need MERN dashboard demons
Lines of code for what
Lmao fermi question
On the app they ask for each language, how many years and how many lines written
50k is insane
lol i put 120k C++
Ain’t no way
Oh checks out
Template for USACO?
My theory was 4 classes, 200 lines/week plus lc
no just judges generally
Idk I never did competitive programming
but most olympiads dont allow templates lol
Wdym judges
online judges
like practice stuff
codeforces, dmoj, etc.
I did do usaco but didnt take it super super seriously cos im not american
did pre well once in g12 but that bout it
i mean technically I've done a lot of C++
I did wc -l *.cpp on my dmoj repository and it was over 120k
its just that it's not actually desmontrative of how much C++ I've written, especially at a production level
🇨🇦
spoj kinda looks 🥴
dmoj is funny cos the largest dmoj clone/instance is not dmoj
oh yeah I got one too
kinda fumbled it tho
😩
nerves
bro is acting like he didnt have to ask about CPU pipelining
Is sig Trader oa Auto
Bro I didn’t take 161 yet relax
the moment bro learns anything its suddenly easy (he spent 3 hours asking people for help)
W
Poggers championship
Are you a cper
W
You got JS intern interview request today?
Lol like every firm has this
Just apply with a different email
Every company has this 💀
lol yea they wont know
Not Apple

Definitely won’t know
Wtf how
Ik people who have to pay to eat lol, same with other big tech places
mine doesnt
i have to bring my own food
apple be making profit of lunch and dinner
Yeah u need to wait 1 year on ur email, but for next season you can just apply with different email
What food does firm have…
That’s how they stay the biggest company
Yea I was on cooldown for an email so I just applied with a different email and got moved on with the process
Not gonna say more publicly but they pay that much for a reason lol
Anyone who has to pay that much is doing so cuz people wouldn’t otherwise work there
They could
Yea but it’s not likely
Meh, as long as the food is good then it is fine
Hey did I mention that I used to work on machine learning at CITADEL
Send LinkedIn
Ya and did I mention I did ML at citadel?
Bros retirement job is vatic
Yo you want to give me a vactic referral
Can I get a vatic referral too
do not ping (ex-ML at citadel | prev: citadel (ML) | past: ML (citadel))
my condolences that you have to work at google. such a shame
If li deng threatens to leave if vatic don’t give him bj what will vatic do?
But google is part of FACANG and I have FACANG
Yes
current interns also
iirc ur guranteed phone if you get referral
1 onsite 3 x 1 hour
Me
what is the c in facang
Capital One (quant firm) 😄
he's got a HUGE personality (citation count)
Chipotle
Chlamydia
Chipotle quant
yo do quants like wear suits and shit like hedge fund analysts
No
Nah
i’m really starting to dislike the swe typically fit
Lmao
They go shirtless I think
half these people look homeless
And pantless
What wrong w that
You can dress however you want
No shirts no socks no service
Maybe they are homeless
real
Swes here helicopter too
what
there is a dream and a hope
Just do dropshipping and make million robux
first i need to become a quant
first i need to get into college*
aye sir
first you need to get out of this server*
but i learned so much from this server
Yeah everyone gets amazon
Someone got amazon before college
💀
They did
aint no way
i’m finna get quant fresh year 😤 (i’m going to end up homeless)
They faked grad date
how tf did they fake
their school
oh wait
before starting college
or like
in hs
no
like
while in hs?
💀
the guy
@acoustic quarry spangoat
Idk who he is
💀
who @rose holly
@rose holly you’re not real
it’s @sand willow lmao
pbjpie is a figment of our imagination
yeah it was me lmfao
zon classic
Wya now?
zon actually drains me
How many dashboards have you made
bro i have to make a dashboard
bro u have to apply to college
the most boring thing i’ve done all year
t-mobile hs internship
Bro building a dashboard to apply to college
i’m making a dashboard rn
yea
Bullish
explorer prep
bro ur manager is a lie 
only for certain school districts
fr
can someone explain the difference between quant dev and swe probably a stupid question but I was curious
what
no like a regular swe at faang
quant swe and normal swe are wildly diff
oh
quant swe you're def working more with c++ and trying to optimize for speed
and precision matters more than delivering large products
and you're in a finance setting
cause I like doing the algorithms, math and finance stuff so people were saying I should try doing quant
my brother which jobs are you comparing quant to say they make decent
i don't really like web dev stuff
what job out there pays more than quants entry level
That tracks
yes
do quant
stuck in the job mindset
not good
bankr obbery pays better
not stuck in job mindset
imo
Unemployment pays better than quant :/
if you had a swe internship and apply for quant does that help?
cause I just had my first internship but
yea
it wasn't quant related
its ok
It doesn’t matter
what are my chances of getting quant freshman year if i have a t-mobile internship and 5 projects
I also started doing competitive programming does that help not really highly rated on codeforces because I haven't had as much time to grind
0
ight
I’m being fr lol
ik you are
0
how are you still focusing on quant 💀
unless you are mit usaco,ioi god with cf its almost 0
bro apply to college
lmfao
get out of here
and write ur essays
dont waste time here
i already wrote my essays
review them
aint no way they're good
where u applying
you dont get into MIT with 1 day of writing essays brodie
takes months
Bro needs to write a common app not a cover letter
and even then u get rejected
uw, uw bothell, usc, uc berkeley for now
no
codeforces is a timesink
useless
i’m not wasting my money applying to ivies
applying to the best possible schools in the world = waste of money
lurking on this discord tryna get into quant when you aren't even applying to ivies = not a waste of time
great logic
Bro wants to do quant but doesn’t want to apply to ivies
if you think applying to ivies is a waste of money
you right
if you don't get into quant as new grad after a few years of working in the swe industry do they care about school or is it just about your work experience?
school matters a good bit
i would just apply
if u dm mem i can give u some
resume review tips
yeah then swe will def help
I thought you were still optmizing trading algorithms and stuff
ig thats quant dev then
hm
red pocket dyk when akuna oa2 comes
after first coding oa
and math oa
wait so are they different? and is they pay difference insane?
Ngmi
qd = big performance formula one of coding
qs = swe for quant companies
swe = swe for faang
apparently my buddy's friend got into Radix trading with 800k starting is that average or top .01%?
i think is what red pocket is saying
Ok
lol
Larp
the girth is what its worth
the bands i got from one year of working were very girthy
I can't tell if ya'll are messing with me lol
Lol
if ur making less than 500k as ng ur a pooron
No matter how much you make you’re still a wagie
I mean in general I ws gonna saay like 300k a year is very good
lol
n = 17
{}
quant janitor hiring
might as well be a janitor atp
no cap
@sand willow bro I think I follow you on IG lmao
my frobenius capital qj offer was >300
what
who art thou
cant even live in texas on 300k
anyways I've applied to a few imc trading and point72 but not sure and last summer applied to some company called chicago trading company got an oa but even with 90% they said I didn't have enough experience
what yr are u
over for u
10k a year is like 500k a year in nyc, cope
@analog stratus what uni did you go to or still go to
if you don’t mind me asking
i’m just tryna see if ivy league is needed for quant
ngmi
i’m gonna make it 😤
@sand willow my brother you aren’t a quant yet either start worrying about your interviews instead of cope reacting to all my messages
i have an interview monday
i got back from work like
15 mins ago
and i was eating
and bored
(i’m going to end up homeless and you will be a quant pm)
seriously takes months
yes
im a cs major i will take all teh dickriding
i can get
barely any
i was trying to not seem like a child having a breakdown
and add a lil bit of funny

meet me at the back of devry university
🥩 🚲
brother ur in hs and have quant in ur disc username, focus on not ending up devry first
okay
but what is devry
top 10 school
top 0 school
HYPDSM
bruh this phoenix university washington edition 💀💀💀
I’ve seen mongo in like half of them
mern -> mean 🤩
do you prefer angular, mr danyul? maybe u can join me working on internal dashboards at google
am currently an angular demon this summer at palantir 
u can were destined for this mr danyul
uiowa tier -1 transcends every school
Yea but tc
I did lol

After some point you can retire and do some personal trading and algos
how do i become
like u?
Sell in life
I’ve made so many shitty mistakes look back at it
It hurts
For sure for sure
You just gotta move on
Being positive I’ve made a lot of good decisions as well
because work sucks
Do you guys think taking a compilers class (in ocaml) is useful for quant swe/dev
But I still have time to redeem myself thouh
I was thinking like if I want to do performance then I can’t take the compiler as a black box forever
GT should be enough for all big firms besides Jump
quant dev cope outcome
i mean someone made it from tech last yr, viasat pipeline too op
he shall join soon, someone else from tech
dude carried me in graph theory
tbh tho, if ur good enough u should be able to make it as long as school isn't complete pisslow
prob top 3 hardest math classes at tech
u should switch to theory
if ur good enough to get good internships, u can offset 40k cost p easily lol
like not super rare to make 30k-40k in an internship
taing here pays 8 dollars/hr
acc rope outocme
I’ve even seen 70-80
Wait what
first semur not allowed to be paid too
and u get 0.50 raise eveyr sem
afterwards
This sounds very bad
At an internship???
kb the 🐐
Lol
damn fr? highest i gotten so far was close to 50k
Not if it’s more than my net worth
@runic grotto
Actual question tho what are y’all’s thoughts
If they take me i would
Hi
is this w overtime or r u salaried?
inch resting
Why u still working at 70
Tcs or like grad probability but probably not the latter
Or some graph theory or combo class maybe
Bro i’m not good at math
Ya
Yeah Steve Harvey is good
Rope
if u have a class on convex/nonconvex optimization i would take that w some prob
also real analysis is p nice to know in general
Chill he just know his limits
then get better lol
It’s not really an option
They teach measure theory in the class
just to do compilrs
omg
charlie
hi
💀
u also taking
compilers
why
rofl
what r u takin
Bruh didn’t you have to schedule classes like 2 months ago
And didn’t you also take abstract algebra as a freshman
this is prereg
thx ❤️

Does anyone know if SIG trading oa is auto
its not
didn't like everyone get it lmao

@blissful kite u getting 70k for the summer?
lmao
70/hr?

im snaggin that emote
applying to a couple places for ng/intern
Wow this is a really good emote
Trading or dev?

prob a mix of both, ideally trading cuz i can't code lol
can u do an internship like
after ur junior year one?
im signed up for bs/ms
ah
is it possible for transfer students to get an internship while in cc?
anything you want to focus on the masters?
like ml or smthn?
or would you prefer to j hop in workforce
maybe high performance computing, but im just having it as backup plan if i don't get job i want
ah
depends on ro situation, if i get ro for fall intern im leaving college
that's sort of interesting like
you can sign up for bs/ms and then not do
when is the tuition due

what
actually you'd probably know way in advance
no i just get bs degree
and quit ms
lol
ye i mean like
if you pay tuition
damn
oh if i do ms, im prob gonna ta or do resaerch so basically free
if you do ms but want to quit im saying
i just wanna make some strategies to trade stocks using math
ft at redacted 
Bro is “passionate” about quant while still in hs
i’m not passionate
oh im planning to finish ms in 1 sem so prob just gonna finish in that scenario
i was just wondering if i should go the transfer route or would that put me behind fellow applicants cause no internship while in cc
since ur applying for ng now tho, if u get smthn good anytime in senior year, can dip before starting ms
lol
yeah
good strat ill do that too

kekw
Wait what don’t you need to have citizenship to work at a national lab
Or am I tripping
For gov funded
Hmge
u going for r and d route
?
L3 crud apps engineer
🐐 outcome anyways
theres some pretty good hpc people at llnl
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
hol up
did u mention that u interned at huawei
o damn
legend
mhmm
idk if i got the exp tho 😩
but shore :O
Send
I have a behavioral today. Whats a good question to ask them at the end?
oh it's because i took the most ml classes im interested at my uni so figured might as well do hpc classes for my ms degree cuz that's probably the 2nd most interesting thing for me at least for ms
you could do both. ml compilers and low level ml systems for improving throughput at scale are pretty hip rn
tons of fun tricks to get stuff going faster.
oh i mean in terms of like ms concentration, we don't have low level ml or compilers concentration at my school
to do this you would be going down the systems/hpc route fwiw
and doing an internship for the rest of the credentials
yeah im doing an internship focus on compiler optimization and low latency systems in the fall
now just resist going into the career ending absorbing state of quant
see u at openai triton team
Sounds way better than my HPC performance research im doing this fall
oh shit where
i cant wait to go to radix sort CRUD consulting!!!
i get paid 1 packing peanut per fiscal year
u got radix offer ?
damn bruv
big dubs
radix sort
no
radix sort crud consulting php web developer intern
nah there’s more interviews
@slender bluff did you get trader or swe offer?
Thanks!! I'll see you at radix soon
thanks for the referral!
damn congrats, mind if I dm
@lost leaf W
I can't wait to give some referrals to Radix CRUD Systems Consulting!!!
plz refer
Anyone know what akuna trading coding hackerrank is like?
Ru still giving referrals?
my man gozer put in the work.. so proud… hes been grinding for this moment since he was born
He closed his dms
sometimes i lose hope in humanity after seeing how fucking stupid some people are
this may or may not be one of those times
Why did you close dms, I want my referral.
ok mr radix stop flexing your intellect on us
To be quite frank, one does need to have a rather significant amount of intellect to comprehend Richard & Mortimer. Why, just yesterday I attempted to show my cousin (who has just entered his seventh year) the episode where the titular character, Rick, turns himself into a pickled cucumber. He laughed at the mere thought of a man become fermented vegetable, but I sat there watching, lamenting the deeper message: the death of intellectual pursuit, the desensitization to societal filth, muck, and mire, and the shameless abandonment of psychological understanding.
At the end my cousin turned to me and proclaimed, "I am the scientist that was once named Rick, but I have now become a pickled cucumber. Look at me, I am pickled Rick!", and I could not help but smile, not that the line he had just recited was humorous, but at the realization that this, in front of my very eyes, was the sum of what the episode had just warned against.
I cannot blame my cousin just as much as a man cannot blame a dog for consuming its own bile. It merely does not know any better, and what could be said about a man who judges things he does not have merit to judge?
That’s @rose holly
anyone know what akuna asks in vid interview for trader
ok
how dicken
like
any examples/shit to study
or nah
does jane street do referrals? or should i just cold apply
cuz i heard JS doesnt have referral bonuses and i dont want someones reputation to go down w my bad interview performance
No
Trading round 2
i got it just now as well
same
Where’s my Jane street reject? I applied right when it came out
It means u got it
Nah
Yah
you just gotta believe 
hello everyone, im an incoming freshman to cs and would like to land a quant internship, where do i get started
hello everyone, im an incoming freshman to cs and would like to land a quant internship, where do i get started
they give free car rental tho
he an incoming sophmore
i think
For the price of $49/head I will do the same
Just did
For the price of head I will do the same
add me
Add me
Can i get added too? Thanks
@lost current hows your experience been working at palantir? What're your thoughts on the company's direction as a whole?
How many questions is sig qt oa?
add me too
💀
Anyone know cutoff for sig qt OA?
Was this for the trading role? Like was ur first oa the mental math test and sequences shit?
Yes to both
Whend u do the oa if u don’t mind
Cause it might not be auto
I turned it in jul 21st haven’t gotten anything
Do u mind me asking how u did or at least think u did
I think I did pretty decent
Sequences were tough
Maybe 50+ on math and 15+ sequences
Bruh I got 70+ math 20+ sequences
Cubist KEPL phone was interesting
Add me
Same
LOL
could i get added
me too 🙏
know someone else who got offer last week, maybe they r matching in waves
wait @verbal ocean which term is it for snow
should i just apply on ww next term or externally asap
ah okay
would they interview me for WT3 or just autoreject?
I think if I don't get resume screened out I have a good chance of getting it
LOL
but i think they'll catch my fib
:weary;
wtf
i did that twice
and no phone
😩
actually age gapped
❄️
mhmm
i mean im fine w that
name good enuf 😩
should i just apply externally as 25
lulw







