#quants-n-traders
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Yea I mean this doesn’t prove anything
like prob something gone wrong and she saw opportunity to get money
This is why I wanted to avoid this
she literally fornicated with another guy the same day after being "assaulted"
Disrespectful to Celtics
Appears unlikely to me but again, not a convo I wanted to have
Wilt is so overrated
mine is:
jordan
lebron
kareem
magic
duncan
kobe
shaq
bird
steph
hakeem
we are talking about the game of basketball
i dont like russell hes a fraud
i agree but not yet
Yea aight lmao
steph will be better than magic after this year
yikes
and LOWKEY kobe too
I wish bird got to play with someone as good as KD
magic is 2nd best laker
like deadass
Or Kareem
steph after he wins his 5th will be better than kobe
okay this is so fucking dumb
bird had one of the most stacked teams of all time
Since when
almost like steph
magic owns bird
Lol TIL mchale = kd
Rookie bird took his team from 29 wins to 61 wins
acting like steph didnt fucking win 67 wins a title and 73 wins and lost in the finals in the last 2 minutes (a series he was hurt in btw)
he had a loaded roster his title years tho
Go check the 81 roster and tell me it’s loaded
KD was good but they won with fucking andrew wiggins - vs a celtics team that was better than any team lebron has faced in the east since the big 3 celtics
Mchale was a bench player for 2 rings
Lemickey east domination is overrated too
give steph wiggins and some solid role players instead of KD and they win 2019 as well
Beating up on Paul George and Derrick roses corpse
So tiring hearing bron fans glaze him for that
Isn’t this crazy tho
^thats twitter btw
thats the 2007 ECF game 6 pivotal match
like lebron is good but stop acting like hes just carried scrubs (+ the people hes faced later in the east was atrocious)
In birds first two title winners his second option was a guy who averaged 20 and 10
And no stars after that
That’s not a stacked team by any means
Meanwhile magic has Kareem 😂😂
Please stop posting about eras you had never experienced or understood. Larry was a great legend but your post is full of nonsense using today's numbers and analysis to explain that era. I'll give you 3 examples but there are at least 10 that got me mad.
'Inherited' a 26 win team. That's like saying Tim Duncan inherited a 20-62 team... The Celtics won a championship in 76 with 3 of those stars and were still good until they got hit with injuries. Yes Rookie Larry was amazing and fit exactly with what that roster needed. But he was not playing with scrubs. Also Larry was 23 yo as a Rookie, when the jump from college to the pros wasn't as steap back then.
Robert Parish was in his prime in 1981? What are you smoking? Why because you peaked at some counting stats? Robert Parish was DeAndre Ayton? Who was Kevin McHale? Enes Kanter? If that's your logic then MJ was Bradley Beal.
Bird has now won 2 rings without even have a teammate average 20ppg
This is you not understanding an era. The Celtics won multiple championships with maybe 1 player surpassing 20 ppg. They'd have 5-6 players in double figures scoring and sometimes like 8-9 players with over 8 points a game. Celtics never played ISO heavy ball. They moved around and made good decisions off cuts and off ball actions. If you think those players weren't good enough to lead other teams then u just understand how basketball works.
What made me the angriest is that my reaction might come off as putting Larry down. But it isn't. He is a top 10 player in my books. Just you having to put down his teammates to show how it was all him. That's some modern day LeBron James fan logic that no one in that era ever dared to make.
Jordan
LeBron
Kareem
Magic
Russell
Bird
Kobe
Duncan
Steph
Shaq
KD
Hakeem
Wilt
Bro with all due respect I ain’t reading all that
W top 3
anything different is crazy imo
All I’m saying is that this false equivalency that ppl make that bird and magic had equally stacked teams is just wrong
i have hakeem over KD
but that list is lowkey fire
duncan over kobe and bird imo tho
I have Russell in there because I’m a Celtics homer and because I value winning
duncan is severely underated when he could be considered the best defensive player of all time too
he played vs 8 teams tho
Duncan is one pop gaffe away from 6-0
like hell @ember lava cd win in that era
Definitely an underrated player
bro im beating u irl
idc abt finals losses but i reward finals wins much more
😭
This means he plays wilt 10x per year
his offense is horrible tho
This idea that the 60s Celtics were far more stacked than the rest of the league is also wrong
Go look at their margin of victory in every series
Everything is close
Yea those numbers not pretty but the winning impact is the winning impact
wilt
Russell era numbers are wack anyways
Statpadder?
with a good roster? at some point numbers and skills matter
me when i play u 1v1
For sure
I wouldn’t say his offense is completely trash tho, his playmaking was awesome and prolly he could have scored more if they used him in that role
would u guys ever work for a baskebtall team swe
Nah they wont give me money
But if I did it would have to be the Celtics
To start off Russell’s rings were objectively easier to win compared to now. The playoff format was just 2 rounds and then the finals with the first round being best of 3 and second being best of 5. As such Russell played in less games and needed to win less meaning he and his team could conserve energy for a deep playoff run. On top of that there is the fact the league only had 10 teams and 8 teams made the playoffs meaning terrible teams were guaranteed a spot. It wasn’t uncommon for teams with losing records to make the playoffs. One year a team with just 16 wins made it in.
The second part is how much talent the C’s had during his time. His team consistently had 3 all stars including Russell which is far more difficult than people think. Looking at his teammates
Cousy (1950-1963) - 13x all star and 12x all NBA in 13 years
Sharman (1950-1961) - 8x all star and 7x all NBA in 10 years
Heinsohn (1956-1965) - 6x all star and 4x all NBA in 9 years
Havlicek (1962-1978) 13x all star and 11x all NBA in 16 years
Sam Jones (1957-1969) - 5x all star and 3x all NBA in 11 years.
okc swe 🔥
Another thing worth mentioning is all these guys except Heinsohn were recently voted for the nba 75th anniversary team where they pick the top 75 players of all time. It’s also worth mentioning Frank Ramsey was the team’s de facto 6th man, was widely considered a starting caliber player and is in the HoF despite not making an all star. I didn’t open up with HoFers arguments because people inevitably make the claim they were only HoFers because of Russell and having a lot of rings.
The only player this really applies to is K.C. Jones who never made an all star in his 12 year career and never averaged more than 10 pts a game and had a career stat line of 7/6/2. So only K.C. Jones and maybe Ramsey are arguing undeserving of their HoF status. It should be noted the HoF isn’t just for the NBA but for all of basketball and Jones’ claim undoubted comes from not only his rings but his NCAA titles and Olympic gold (which he also rode Bill’s coattails in both but hey the man is only 1/8 players to have the hat trick ok). I’m sorry but I don’t see how you can look at these teammates and say Bill somehow elevated them especially since many of these guys still made all stars and all NBA teams before and after Russell. Plus if that was the case Don Nelson would be in the HoF as a player but he isn’t, he’s in the HoF as a coach
To top it all off Russell had Red Aurbach who is arguably the greatest coach in nba history. So Russell was on a stacked team for over a decade, with the greatest HC of all time, in a small league with little player movement. I see people somehow spin it to claim less teams means talent is more evenly distributed but that is blatantly untrue and has always been untrue for sports. Like name me one player from the Syracuse Nationals or Rochester Royals without looking up anyone. Simply put Boston had a monopoly on talent to the point where even their 6th man could’ve been an all star on another team.
Are u copy pasting this
Russell fans will try to defend him saying he was a passing big but his career average assists is 4 per game which is hardly higher than any other big like say Bob Pettit of the hawks whose career assists was 3.4 per game. TBF Russell did become more of a passer after Cousy retired but he was only the team’s leading assist leader once.
Now am I saying Russell is a bad player? No. Russell is most certainly a top 20 player of all time, maybe a top ten player. And TBF for Russell, his playoff numbers are generally better than his regular season numbers, however there is simply no justification of putting him in the top 5. Already I think of several other players who are superior to Russell. Bird, Johnson, Jordan, James, Jabbar, Duncan, O’Neal, Chamberlain all come to mind before Russell. Even Antekoumpo and Jokic are neck and neck with Russell and the only reason I’d put Russell over them slightly is his rings and mvps. But to say he’s top 5 all time is too far for me since the numbers just dont prove it.
yuh
Stop it
@ember lava this is crazy
lowk hype
I need him to trade Shai for Jaylen brown
Cook up some python scripts to make it happen
the celtics shdve gotten dame imo
lol
And all your copy pasting is irrelevant btw
like get rid of brown for him
is true tho
11 rings is 11 rings and 5 MVPs is 5 MVPs
lol
if praxis was on that team instead of bill they win
If you put him in the top 3 that’s a reach tho
no one is top 3 except jordan lebron kareem
Why didn’t they win before him or after him then hmm
Tatum soon
he got into the right place right time
bro
Lemme cry in peace
tatum had his chance
idt he will be top 15 all time sadly
wait big q
is giannis better tahn KD all time?
if he wins another ring i think he has to tbh
For me no
Well then yea
But Tatum gonna protect kds legacy
yk what i hate
L take sadly
lebron fans complain abt 2017 saying they were facing a superior warriors team
BUT
the talent gap between those teams is less than lebrons gap between the heat and mavs in 2011
then lebron fans complain and discredit stephs 2015
when lebron beat the heat in 2020 when they were just as injured as the cavs in 2015 (tbh even more hurt)
Tatums last games against Gianni’s
40
41
17 in a half before refs starting calling bs fouls on him
46
34
30
ya hes been good
tatums best game in his career was that game 6 down 3-2
in giannis house
Injuries only matter when they hurt LeBron
You need to understand the LeBron fan script by now
Bucks fans did the same thing with Middleton btw
Bucks 2021 ring counts but Celtics beating the bucks in 2022 is illegitimate
Porzingis looked so nasty in the preseason game
injuries is the biggest thing w him rn tho
I wonder how the 2024 Celtics will find a way to disappoint
More GP than dame in last 4 years btw
Nah we not doing any nfl discussions
If anyone has had a BlackEdge qt intern phone can u dm me pls
bruh
u know this guy?
No it’s just a cool post
apply
idk swe + school involvement seems sufficient
whats ur prev exp
has anyone done the optiver trading operations analyst new grad tech interview?
im gonna die
shit is tmw
yeah
@finite rune
why u tagging
like i ever said some dumb shit like curry aint clutch
ya Ik I’m just saying why imi he’s better than bird and russel lol
don’t ever disrespect the right-handed goat jaylen brown ever again
I like the way u think g
you make a swe tier list then
avg swe tier list
Tier 0: Renaissance Technologies, HRT, Discord, Jane Street, SIG, Two Sigma, Flow Traders
Tier 1: Databricks, Google, Netflix, Airbnb, Tesla Autopilot, NVIDIA AI/ML, Stripe, Plaid, Nvidia, Apple AI/ML
Tier 2: Tiktok, Meta, Roblox, Pinterest, Apple, Uber, ByteDance, Snowflake, LinkedIn, Square, Scale AI, Brex, Airtable, Adobe Sensei
Tier 3: Instacart, Dropbox, Robinhood, Datadog, Lyft, Twitter, Asana, Figma, Confluent, Snap, Coinbase, Atlassian, Doordash, Palantir
Tier 4: Salesforce, Adobe, VRBO, Microsoft, Affirm, Splunk, Twilio, Spotify, Palo Alto Networks, Bloomberg, Amazon, Radix
Tier 5: Oracle, Tesla, VMWare, Shopify, Intuit, Expedia, Paypal, Disney, eBay, Autodesk
Tier 6: Cisco, Intel, IBM, Capital One, Citadel
yikes
lame time
chatgpt wouldnt rank companies
prompt engineer diff
two sigma > openai
🔥
apple > hrt
where is twitter
VMWare Tier 10?!
Tier 0: Rentech
Tier 1: TGS, OMC, Headlands, Radix, Aquatic
Tier 2: Jane Street, 5r, Jump, DESCO, 3red
Tier 3: HRT (dropped bc bad yr), Optiver, Citadel/Citsec, PDT
Tier 4: IMC, CTC, Voleon Group, DRW, Tower
Tier 5: 2s, SIG, Akuna, Belvegoat, Geneva, Wolverine, Virtu
Tier 6: Trillium, Millenium, BAM, p72, WorldQuant
thanks for your feedback, the committee kindly appreciates it and takes it into high consideration
where's Citi qr
Why is 3red so low
anyone given the geneva trading python oa
congrats on omc
Scale AI underrated, Datavant not mentioned?, Salesforce too high, wheres anthropic?, IBM too low for ML stuff, citadel tier 1, google underrated lowkey id put it in T 0 depending on team
?
whats rentech
I would complain but since nobody on here has given me a job, I can’t say any of them are too low
Respect grant Williams
he’s weird
bro goes to tufts parties
as an nba player
ill make em both
wait praxis can u send a legit tier list pls
for me
for SWE
@ember lava
I heard it’s very good yes
He prolly pulls all the chicks
What are these tier lists based on? Money? Prestige? Work life balance?
citadel gqs vs random citsec team for swe?
i have to choose one
idk the comps but idrc about intern comp
i mean id like to do QR type stuff
one of my friends who applied cit swe last year did like low latency qr stuff on a citsec team
so i was wondering if GQS would be similar?
oh i see
i didnt get much details but ill get more thanks
ik they have like QR engineer role which seems cool
ye
the people ive talked to say that if both go well they make u choose
like a guy i talked to got positive feedback from both
and he had to choose which one to go through with
but yea i heard like switching teams within org isnt hard
but across citadel and citsec is a lot harder
hm i see
im alr hoping to offseason cit
thoughts on being a qswe forever vs tech, currently I don't have that much interest in qr/qt type roles in the long run 
but yea i dont wanna do data pipelines lol

i think it depends right i feel like qswe at a good firm is still better than those options j cuz of growth potential
yeah i think breaking into low-lat is what I'm most curious abt
i got nvda for some cloud gaming stuff so im tryna organize my intern ordering rn
do people normally just return to their final internship?
or does it also happen that people reach out to some of their past internships asking if they're hiring?
cos ideally i wanna have exp at a couple of diff places
and then be able to choose what to get into for ng
but obviously u cant line up multiple ROs at once 😂
i think if im happy w my next 2 internships imma just grad 2025
so hopefully less 🤞
wtf is this list
average singed main
Millenium is T1
😔
Jump 😂😂
imo should be dropped down a lvl too
Bam is goated
You’re missing arrowstreet
qre to qr on gqs is apparently p accessible
Did the Voleon SWE intern positions close?
How is it clearly a troll
what would u say instead
At first glance it seems feasible
j curious
Then you actually look at it
that tier list was for swe as well right
or overall?
idk lolol
i think thats why OMC was ranked so high
their swe outcomes are insane
I feel like swe tiers are known enough, qr tier list might be more useful tbh
does anyone know anybody who waited for >1 day to hear back from js after final round?
for js swe they usually tell u the same day
- qna
whether or not u get it
i';ve heard of ppl who got offers the next day too, but everyone i know got a decision by the next day
so idk lol
yea idt its a good or bad sign tbh
i really hope that they're on the fence and haven't decided or smth lol
better than being a 100% reject
idk im talking out of my ass i dont work at js lmaoo
I work at js
i j know like they will sometimes cut u 2 interviews in
I've heard of ppl applying for ft and being forced to do an internship but idk
Meh
JS isn’t that high
Their tech is cringe
C++ all the way
Overrated company tbh
JS is amazing
C++ is dumb
If you want good tech this is the wrong industry
Nah
my friend who interned last summer said no one stays past 5
I liked HRT tech a lot more
im talking comparatively to the quant industry as a whole
Me when I get wrong info
obv it doesnt beat like working 2 hours a day at google
Y’all don’t know what you’re talking about
Do you
hrt was negative this year
Probably ?
have u worked at one or more of those places?
I’ve interned at both JS and HRT
Among other places
I think I know what I’m talking about
were u a swe, trader or qr?
yea for swe
Is pdt really that low
I thought they were nice
This guys too cracked
Are you already working or starting ft next fall
Oh nice
Money printer
Nyc tax such a pain
I might try to live in jersey just to not pay it
Maybe i go to connecticut
New haven
I dont think so
I think only state works like that
Wdym washout
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dont engage in the cringe of this server, not worth

edison
Anyone here have a phone interview for citadel sec - quantitative trading?
@lament coyote
avg swe tier list
why headlands so low
Do you know if Optiver still really has spots for interns? I have first technical interview on Friday
did an internship after graduating?
is there any ev in doing drw spring if im going to imc summer (swe intern)
market exchange team i think
lol
u got the oa?
ah makes sense
nope its chalked
a lot more people this sem, and some cracked intl students as usual
@deep cargo dyk if 4170 is any good
dm
isnt js a sig spinoff lol
Isn’t headlands a spin-off of citadel
20 years headlands?
I think was like 2009
Also Radix kind of a spin-off
Very few firms that I know are not kind of a spin off outside the pit crew
fr
yes
Thank you man. I’m stressing rn hahaha
at this point most quant places dont care that much about school
tons of canadians at cit
still might be ggs for you tho
uncalled for 
Anyone know what arrow street swe process is liek
Just got first round 90 min call
How best to prepare for open ended modeling questions in interview? Like "how would you choose what snacks to put in a vending machine" kind of question
what if you have 1000 types of snacks and need to figure out the top N revenue generating snacks in the shortest amount of time, you don't have reliable market data
🤔
is there any good book or guide
no
SHARK
SHARK
SHARK
your mom
hey, does anyone know anything about the optiver interview process for hft research intern role?
i took the OA two days ago and just got a request for a technical interview
I know a little
Does anyone know estimate of days to hear back after optiver hft research intern interview
anyone know anything about TDO Intern at Jane Street
lol did u just take it recently?
I took yesterday
but I'm on 2nd technical
1st technical is betting games, where you bet 1 round basically
2nd technical is betting game where you bet for many rounds
lmao
hft researcher does same dice coin games
wyd when you show up for hft research and u can only do dice coin games lol
why is millennium so high
Good night bro
also wondering
also are they doing return intern
Hey sorry for this question but anyone has idea how to solve smart schedular(Optiver)?
what's cscd
hi! i'm having my de shaw systems interview soon--do you happen to have any tips?
can u review my resume as well?
anyone know what the pass rate for cit swe intern onsite is like?
bro thinks hes funny
Does optiver have a hire limit or have they ever hit capacity on SWE interns?
Yes I think
But it's quite high/usually they are open for a long time
~25 interns for swe
Anyone know optiver final pass rate?
🙏
No, but acceptance rate overall is <~0.5% if that helps
Doesn't seem too bad
whats the avg time to hear back after jane live coding round?
quick
Within a week
For final it’s probably much higher
took mine yday
Yeah
🤷♂️
yes
In Nov '24
Nah, just want to enjoy free time & travel/play with the money I have now
No point working that time
I finish uni then have 4-5 months free to do whatever I want
Yee
I might go super into music for that period too
Doesn’t jump culture suck
Auditioning to play a concerto with orchestra for my uni, but it would be for next year January, so I'd have to take 1-2 weeks off work and come to uk
what do u play
Piano
Yo
my friend didnt get mm qs for first phone he has no qt exp
Br
No
.
yea seems like they want ppl to stay in TDO
so idk
and salary progression seems low too
yea prefer swe
i dont mind trying TDO
but def dont want forever
.
so
this is the last internship for FT
wat
its too good for my tier list
lol
culture seems rlly good
wolverine traders are rlly goated lol
pay is meh
i am j saying overall company is not bad at all
but yea ofc swe at other quants > wt
@ember lava
@ember lava
@ember lava
praxis are we homies
lol what happened to citidel culture, is it bad
a couple of week iirc
Still worth doing Akuna102 or are they done hiring?
That’s such a coincidence lmao
Anyone gone through the TDO interview process at JS?
Lol i remember in august 2022 i saw sbf's net worth on wikipedia and age and was like
shit i wish i was as cracked as himj
How' transferable it is if I am working in a role that does options market making but using Java and some socket programming and what not
Or do companies care more about the tech itself than the role scope
Has anyone done optiver technical first round, if so, what is it like (for swe)
Got JS final let's goooooo
how long to hear back after hrt oa?
@atomic quail how do you know so much about the quant world.
he has been on the inside 0_0
Has anybody done or in the final stage for Python SWE Internship @ HRT??
Cool opportunity for anyone interested - highly recommend! https://www.linkedin.com/posts/anthropicresearch_were-excited-to-host-our-next-anthropic-activity-7118649346690076673-81ZZ?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios
thats fine, no need to apologize
i thought you might have had some internships at big names in the past or something which is why i asked
oh ok
😦
ull prob make it
Does anyone have advice how to clear swe interviews at quant firms, I've gotten stopped 3 times at the phone round.
Typically I get through 2 leetcodes and some theory questions in the allotted time, sometimes its a struggle and I'm not fully confident in the answers I give, could that be the problem?
anyone ever had cit interviewers ghost them?
in my onsite rn, third interview
second interviewer didnt show up, 5 mins into my third interview rn and nobody there lol
i did for intern, got to 2nd round, first round is phone where they ask a bunch of python trivia/some leetcodes, 2nd round is call with hiring manager where they find out what kinda person u are, i believe after hm there is 1 more technical
i didnt get past the hm round
I replied to a story linked about it
.
The owner seems crazy
\founder
Oh then go for it
Good name still
Yes
Well the other firms would
ive p much said eevrything i know but sure
The high level firms will know the name
tough market these days 
maybe nvidia but their recruiters are v slow
my focus is too split to get quant rn i feel like
im not able to dedicate my all to preparing for the interviews etc
besides quant what do you want to do?
maybe something close to hardware, asic design, driver development
i did a bunch of internships in web/backend space and while it paid well, it felt pretty bland
crud is rope 
i was at aws tho so luckily not much crud, but it was still mostly like fixing nullpointer exceptions and shit in their terrible java code lmfao
ya qd seems like some fun software problems
the lengths they go to take advantage of hardware is p interesting
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how much does cit negotiate intern offers
happened twice for me lol
email recruiter, she said the dude’s ferry was late and we rescheduled 💀💀💀💀💀
drw vs imc?
you wanna do something strange for a piece of change?
swe both
interesting i was thinking drw for sure
wdym by fast
so final thoughts on imc vs drw swe, i got deadline today
isnt it all under sea cable?
what are they transmiting via satellite?
brah
cboe weather futures 
u are biased i think u made up these numbers
do you have info about the drw team?
@thorny gate imo if culture isn’t ur top priority and it’s a good drw team go drw
would go for drw then, you could probably get a final for imc next yr too if you decline
know someone who got expedited after declining final
ye
everyone had record profit in 2022
sure some people had record profit in 2020
but like IMC optiver cit/sec
do a lot of the ug quant hiring and made record profits
Anyone know if js allows swe interns to come back as trading interns the following summer?
Yes if you pass a trading bootcamp at the end of the internship
There’s a trading bootcamp for swe interns?
yup lol
wdym by latency issues
imcs one of the fastest HFTs no?
Their pricing on the other hand
imc culture is too chill for them to be top performer
I heard they fired 3 employees after immediately traineeship
ye imc firing is swift
anyone have any anime recs
From a software engineer looking to break into quant in a few years what do you guys suggest I do? I know there won't be a one size fits all solution but I'd like to know general skills I can pick up to become a good quant I feel like I have good enough math and I'm constantly striving to improve myself in building software and would love to work with HFT / trading systems in general and wanted to get like an general overview of what skills I should pick up on the side to be successful and land interviews for quant roles - like quantitative developer etc
I'm working in a startup that is doing large scale data analytics and a lot more stuff and my role is like a backend engineer combined with a little bit of NLP
OH you mean to say they'll look at the company I worked for in the past too?
Lemme rephrase what skills are quant firms looking for in general?
I'll check to see if there's an overlap
Central engineering as in software engineering? I was under the impression that it'd be easier for me, a software engineer to transition into the role of a quantitative developer?
Is it not possible to acquire finance skills externally and become a desk dev? And are roles like "quantitative developer" available inside the central engineering division as well?
Ah I see but then I wanna know are roles like quantitative developer available inside central engineering?
Or is it more of what I do which is the traditional software engineering?
Ah I see is there a way for like a SWE to maybe transition into stuff that are more trading related?
Oh so you're saying its easier to transition from central eng to quant roles once you get into a firm instead of going directly?
I'm willing to get the knowledge required BTW I previously mentioned that I wouldn't even apply until like 2 years
yes
BUT
they will happily invest money in training you for finance stuff
so i really wouldn't give much of a shit about learning it yourself
because they won't just take your word for it even if you do unless you have actual experience
+1
Ah I see
Okay then
they are not looking necessarily for good finance developers. They are looking for good developers- ones that are malleable, adaptive, able to learn and produce results, and of course have interest in them
That provides a lot more clarity thank you
at least from what i've learned in my company - can't speak on behalf of everyone
often at most companies it's a spectrum of how close you are to finance stuff (you will always be close relative to outside, but in terms of devops vs. on the desk lol)
often you have a researcher that acts as a soft boundary, in between trader and developer (someone that knows trading stuff but also a bit of programming)
My experience was working as a dev but with researchers on two desks, so i got a bit of both
my actual work was relatively core CS stuff but on a framework used directly by them
fingers in both pies
And dang if the previous company mattered as much as you're saying I mightve picked that job offer at the investment bank I got ( one of big 5) but it had shit learning and I was Most probably gonna work for legacy tech reason why I decided to pivot and got this startup offer which also pays a lot lot more
Atleast the team I got had the above qualities
You sure I assumed someone who worked at Goldman? had a lot of chances of breaking into quant
nah
IB is shit
for SWE
well and IBers lmao
but yeah don't give a fuck about that
they don't care if you have a finance company background
absolutely not
well
no more than usual
goldman devs are < FAANG lmao
Damn okay guess I shouldn't worry about that offer
regardless
just focus on yourself and don't worry too much about it being finance or not
Yea I got pretty close to faang but not into it but can prolly get in soon as I missed the faang offer by just a bit
focus on being a good developer, that's what they're paying for, not someone good at finance (they have plenty of traders & researchers for that part)
they will gladly invest time and money into getting your finance knowledge good
You mean to say
Youd pick a good swe job at a very good startup than a quant dev role?
@atomic quail iirc you can directly apply to front office QD positions, no?
Idk where that guy is in his career, but I’d assume NG QD interviews test academic math + programming skills versus financial knowledge
it’s easy for a firm to teach someone the financial skills they’d need through an education program
yes
i think that's more accurate
exactly
that's why mos thave a traineeship
usually 3 months or something
Is this offered even for experienced devs?
think so yeah
it's just any newcomers to the company
in my one at least even HR get some of it
true
@buoyant stirrup if you’d like to self-learn it yourself and have some sort of accreditation for your financial knowledge (though not sure how appreciated the name is), you can go through Akuna’s options 101 and options 201 courses
you could also do rtg and imc prosperity which would give u a decent understand of what QDs do (minus the strategy creation side of these games)
👍
Yea I assumed it was targeted towards me I'm definitely checking these out thanks
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/2023/07/quant-jobs-in-finance-no-degree
What do you guys think of this?
Efinancial is the gossip finance website 😂
Yes it’s true that some people can get in without a degree but also 0.00001% of uni dropouts become billionaires. The rest of the dropouts don’t become billionaires.
Plus telling everyone to do open source to get a job is bullshit. There are so many open source projects flooded with people who have no clue about what they are doing and just commit and spam PR so they can have it on their CVs. (I really appreciate when people genuinely contribute. Open source needs people. When people contribute to make something better or help that’s great! )
Just my 2 cents
- if you contributed to an open source project and it’s something they use and the interviewer knows the project they will definitely check your commit and will ask you stuff about it. (Happened to me already)
Yeah in the last two weeks of the internship
Yea I m decently active in contributing to open source as well and notice the spam PRs. Do you have any recommendations for projects related to quant finance which is like more related to the field? Will help me gain an understanding of what goes on
You are over complicating it
Tbh you don’t have to have “industry specific projects” they don’t care about that 😅 if you have decent exp they care
Should've completed my question
If you live in a financial hub and you have some years of experience as a developer, you will get hit by headhunters
And you will get an interview somewhere
I was looking for open source repos which have tools regularly used by quant devs
You are wasting your time
For Ng and internship having a prestigious degree (think MIT) helps
You either get a famous company internship or go to a great school or be really lucky
Or you just continue with your life and get an interview in 2-3 years
But as @rose holly also said you don’t have to do industry specific projects.
QuantLib, a free/open-source library for quantitative finance
Damn, having something financial related might even be a negative because they’ll roast your work during the interview
OH dang
I mean yeah they will ask ofc
And I have a big confidence that HR doesn’t value that shit
That’s why I said random open source projects on Cv can be dangerous. They will ask
For interns / new grads
Get a degree from MIT / go to FAANG internship / win a competition / or be lucky
Otherwise just interview in two years, it’s not the end of the world
I'm not a student chill already in the industry. Was looking to apply to quant roles in an year or so and thought contributing to open source stuff they use might help but yea they could also take that chance to roast me
Yeah useless
joke website
Swing on headhunters
Make sure you know your daily tech and can show impact. Culture fit is also a huge factor. Some places have “is this a nice guy/girl vibe who can work in a team and is a friendly person”.
Gotcha
Also the reverse
Is this person an asshole that can work like a dog ? Depending on the place lol
question 1 on the citadel hm checklist
And don’t be worried about “I never coded c++” there are a lot of shops using python, java, c#, …
Hft ofc is mostly c++ but hft is not everything
anyone got any info on what citsec technical is like
Hmm weird they never mentioned any such thing. I was only told about the OCaml bootcamp and the 2 intern projects
Yeah they offered a training boot camp for the last week
If u did good enough they offered a return trading internship
Oh lol that’s exactly what nosimp said
interesting, in london they didn’t offer this, but people who said they wanted to try trading got return trading internships after a 1h chat and 1h interview
That seems easier lol
yea if they think ur good enough for js they pretty flexible with what role u want
What if u are not good enough :/
Nah, the JS internship is the true filter
They're pretty happy to give people the opportunity to intern
Also you need a SWE intern return to even try out for trading
No I mean interview to get Trading Intern offer rather than going through a week training
But could be wrong
Yeah but you need SWE return offer + having gone through SWE interviews
Seems way more roundabout
anyone already had ctc interview after passing OA?
has anyone interviewed for Virtu QT yet?
Swe intern at js seem higher EV lol
Better return odds and a chance at a no risk try at trading
he took radix over js
Do you know anything about how it works in hong kong?
@drifting granite 🐐
hi everyone, can I ask for advice for cit leadership call
it’s my first time (and probably the only time) I can make it this far 😭
I have no idea what team
The guy will interview me for leadership is from core engineering
@rose holly congrats on radix
It’s intern 😭
Is Rick and Morty good?
has anybody here done old mission winter intern trading oa?
anyone do the hrt swe oa? nyc rat problem?
does optiver ask LC hard for onsite
POV ur not gonna be given immortality pill
Has anyone interviewed for Cit qr intern? Preferably for the GFI execution team
if anyone interviewed for optiver swe and is open to sharing how their process went, can u dm me? thank youu, i have phone today
has anyone interviewed for desco tpm intern 🫡?
has anyone done jump final yet?
has anyone heard from bam since swe intern final? mine was like 4 weeks ago they keep saying theyll get back next week
Does anyone have experience with Optiver interviews on campus? If so please DM me 🙋🏻♂️ 🤝
Optiver swe vs imc qt vs arrowstreet qd vs citsec swe for last internship
Asking for friend. He only care about pay progression
pretty sure qt is just always gonna be better pay progression
He can do qt or swe doesn't matter for him
straight money progression has gotta be imc qt or citsec swe actually maybe arrowstreet
Imc qt ng is not even 350 and optiver is 425 tho so he don't know if imc pay like that
He say optiver swes he talked to during visit said they making 700k two years in
i mean if u want just straight pay then go to arrowstreet
theres arrowstreet swe making 550-600 first year
Arrowstreet pays?
have a friend with 625k arrowstreet first year
For qd? Damn
Ok that's diff tho
Ohh
but still idt any of the other 3
will come close to arrowstreet
bro im not saying its my position
thats his friends
idt optiver or imc are gonna get close to arrowstreet or citsec
at least starting
but if u are really good qt
imc might have good long term potential
and u can always switch to qt at a better firm
tbf citsec is better wlb then cit
super generally at least
Yea fair
Tbf tough q idrk
Yea lets just say he had all the nego in the world
citsec if good team imo
Why do you say so
dude how do i get better at these brain teaser type Qs
thanks for the motivation 
i better ace this then 😭
Why did i choke the final
Im actually gonna kms lol
Is it common for it to scale that quickly
30-50%
depends on ng class performance i think, no set %
actually probably more like 20-40
Is two sigma swe OA auto?
no
citsec swe intern vs drw swe intern?
i wanna optimize for full time pay progression/growth
have to decide by today so appreciate any advice
why
if u only want pay progression citsec is better
They have higher starting pay and higher growth no?
Tho idk how drw wlb is but im sure its better than cit
also what desk at drw
drw is only even worth thinking about for certain desks
rest are mid
ficc options executions
what is LL?
citsec > drw for full time right? for pay
yes
bet
Is qt even better risk adjusted for an internship
whats the citsec swe ro rate?
Has anyone done RBC capital markets quant analyst 1st round
I mean js trader fossil clears lol
Those guys have crazy late game income
P good at like Jane street no?
Like T bill job
Just like very low risk relatively
Yeah but they don’t fire
Just bored + rich
Prolly like optiver IMC etc is high variance though
Every day is a coin flip
Yeah optiver seems rly nuts mid career
And like progression
I mean it’s just like entrepreneurship right
But that’s just correlation
If ur mid qt then u probably don’t make good startup
qt is far better for quant
you really want to be as front office/profit center as much as you can for growth/pay
It’s not even a fake exit
lategame is retiring at 30
why do you think so
I think it’s just 1 round and final but don’t quote me on that might be 2 rounds
nah
unless you are a very specific type of person
ive heard trading hours aren't actually that bad?
firm-dependent, but you just work market hours right
i feel like you're still expected to do a lot as a swe
at a trading firm
i'm not sure if minimizing stress is a good heuristic to use in this industry
b/c i feel like you can make similar money in big tech
i feel like a lot of my trader friends chase the adrenaline from risk taking lol
i don't think the difference between 250k and 350k is that big
tech just starts a bit lower
but after a few years ur making crazy money in either industry
not that you're not making crazy money starting off (we live in a bubble)
is 450 quant swe common? i thought offers were like 350
350-400 is what i've been seeing
dont those 450k offers end up being like 320k first year due to the way bonuses are prorated, etc
its a bit of a fake number no
yeah most firms pro-rate
and your signing falls off after year 1
i don't think tech vs. trading is that big of a difference in terms of money
for swe
anyone wanna contribute to my open source project? 😔
trynna get some virtual stars so employers think I'm worth hiring
a lot of firms have the terms interchangable tbh
youre better off looking into that specific firm and seeing what the roles responsibilities are
then again
i have yet to get an internship

around when does cit swe intern get full?
Already full
Deshaw is a little fucked in general lol
False
Plenty of mid QTs
Also hours are bad and really stressful especially if you don’t have the skills and especially now that markets are more competitive
But work pressure is going to be high in tech too now, TikTok influencer lifestyle is finished together with Covid
cit has onsite?
has anyone interviewed for jpm markets qr?
citadel isn’t even doing fall that much anymore
folks who've interned at a quant firm for SWE, what should i know before going into a quant internship?
in terms of the work: any tips, advice?
(i'm not much active here, feel free to ping or @ in the reply)
anyone get sig graduate trader oa?
has ayone had cit recruiter ghost after trying to reschedule D:
interviewers didnt show up so had to reschedule
Happened today
But probably I ghosted the recruiter
I was in central time zone and recriter didn't mention timezone and I probably missed by 1 hour
I followe up but recruiter didn't reply
damn lol i had a similar issue
u have their phone number? i only got email
there is a phone number in the email signature?
dm me
if you had a team specific phone prior to final does that determine your leadership call for cit?
oh shit never saw that kk
hi I'm new here, would anyone be able to mock me for optiver qt intern second technical?
culture-wise of pnl-wise?
process is kinda just ass but my friend there seems to like it
i have 1 prop trader friend and 1 swe
Hi question related to HRT if you bomb oa from one position you can’t apply to any other position?
I have Optiver HR interview coming up followed by an OA can anyone give tips / tricks on what to practice? I've read above leetcode, mcq, IQ tests... can someone be a bit more specific?
Can you give a bit more details about what to expect in terms of mcq?
Have you done the OA yet?
Nah I dropped out of every process. Why?
okok, thx for your response! I have an on campus HR interview which will likely be followed by OA, hence why I'm asking
You are doing the ETH Zurich interview?
Yes lol how did you know?
They used to be way more chill I have heard.
I assume HR will basically ask your motivation, why optiver and so on. Basic hr interviews.
Yeah I usually do well in HR interviews / fit interviews so not too worried about that, more so about the OA that will likely follow
Can you share any tips/tricks for OA?
I have not done it… was to lazy 😂
haha I understand, was wondering if you had read any good info about them, I'm looking all over the place for anything
Tbh if you really want to find out what the question is you have to find someone here who is willing to share the info 😂 but tbh it does not really help at the end you will have to solve it anyways
for trader this is just zeta mac and complete the series type questions i believe.
if you are at ETH there is a quant club by the Analytics Club you can join 😉
I have heard the quant club is super good! 😉😂
Quant is lit indeed 🔥 😋
Is it normal for cit to give u a leadership with multiple teams?
Does that mean higher offer chance lol
what happens if both go well
Oh that must be why they say cit wlb is 80 hrs lol
😭
Anyone know about virtu recruiter call after first technical?
yea they screen again after oa
Anyone know how long it takes to hear back after cit leadership round
2 days
how hard is it to get quant internships and roles from non-target schools compared to target schools?
I go to a relatively unknown Canadian university but just curious
In citadel phone interview do you need to 100% code solution? Like if I approach we stated is correct and code it 90% will we move forward
there's someone in my program who works as a SWE at a major firm but besides that, I don't know of people
any good resources for someone extremely new to the space looking to work towards it?
I'm a university student who works at Shopify atm
swe
although I'd like to learn more about quant trading roles too
probably not research tho
I see even in the end he said we are short time so leave that as it is and do you have any questions for me? (Does it consider positive negative or neutral)
Gotcha man hopefully he would allow it
Do they generally ask 1 question?
*only
Yes bro
I see gotcha man thank you
hrt dude told me hope to see you here then rejected me
@ruby fog these are mostly interview prep resources I think but are there any specific skills I should focus on for the work itself? I heard everything is in C++ (OCaml for JS, I think?) but I don't know much outside of that
so trying to predict is meaningless
I only just started 2nd year though so I don't know shit about anything lol
I see
fair enough, I appreciate it bro
That’s true prediction is useless so what’s time line I just ended my interview max how many days it take them reply
what firms have you worked at, if you don't mind me asking? @ruby fog
bet fair enough
alright I appreciate the advice man, tysm
Was that idk for him or me?🥹
anyone done the vidcruiter for akuna
I see brother so do you have answer for my question?