#quants-n-traders

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peak egret
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yeah i figured

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nomenclature tends to sometimes be wishy washy though

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required for me too

tardy shell
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idk about applied math tnh here

peak egret
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im not doing applied math tho combined math and stats degree

tardy shell
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goated

peak egret
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ig thats as applied as you can get 💀

peak egret
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dude

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i could NEVER

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i walk into my schools math common room

tardy shell
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math is mid af at my uni

peak egret
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hieroglyphics on the chalkboards i stg

tardy shell
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no point

peak egret
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though i do really want to take a topo course at some point

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seems interesting

tardy shell
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ive done 2 topo courses

peak egret
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??

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goated

tardy shell
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its important for quantum mechanics

peak egret
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oh ok makes more sense

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yeah has lots of physics applications

tardy shell
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rn electrical burns

peak egret
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same idc about my cs classes lol

tardy shell
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thats more kerfuffle sr territory but i like anything that can kill mfs

peak egret
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plus i just take math ones to cover the cs reqs 💀

tardy shell
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but not weapons of war

peak egret
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if i do grad would def be in stats

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so im chillin

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ohhhh

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lol makes more sense

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valid

tardy shell
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lil doxx cuz uni

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but whatever

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prof was mad insane tho

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used to shout at us

peak egret
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have you taken a course in algebra?

tardy shell
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yh 2

peak egret
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based

tardy shell
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i had to otherwise i wouldnt qualify for this

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and math minor as well

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RA 1/2, Abstract 1/2, Intro to diff geom and topo

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fourier and complex on the way as well

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but that shit was neither here nor there

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wasnt needed

peak egret
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💀

tardy shell
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did it during summer so it was free

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i dont remember much from complex

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fourier i use in ee signals and shit so its still there

peak egret
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i only have to take ra 1

tardy shell
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why?

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what were you expecting

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northwestern wouldve been cool as shit

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i think im lwk a uchicago person

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but like the weedsmoknig uchicago people

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but i didnt know uchicago was a place when i was deciding unis

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wtf uchicago people are bitchless?

peak egret
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yes bro

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they get 0 play

tardy shell
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shiii im not in uchicago and currently bitchless so im in a lose:lose situation

peak egret
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lol

tardy shell
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econ a bit too ngmi for me

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i think that chancla would come at me

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if i mentioned econ

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indian parents hear econ and think commerce student

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and not science

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its over

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and then market gets cooked

peak egret
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econometrics is kinda based though tbh

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i did econometrics research freshman year was p fun

tardy shell
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i got ngmi friends back home studying business management or international business asking me if I have a job

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like bro youre in a small market in dying economy with an aging populaton studying business

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dont talk to me about jobs

peak egret
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tbf

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still possible to get ib from non target

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exponentially harder

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but still possible

tardy shell
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iif youre in finance and not mega target just drop out and dance in nyc subways

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thats where those people come from

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thast why top finance guys are coked up and so are the the subway people

peak egret
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tauf

tardy shell
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dwag

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i went back to india last year and meeting family friends all their kids doing cs

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and im like fuck

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they talking about leetcode and shit

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and im sitting here with my offers fully quiet

dire finch
tardy shell
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i just told them i got internship in small bank

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thats my go to for family members

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im working at a bank

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i mean ieven if I did tell them yh its wall street, itll just be fake compliments

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and then venom behind the back

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id rather cut that cancer out and keep them ignorant

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yh

tranquil wagon
dire finch
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india has huge flex culture

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it's gross

tardy shell
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its even weirder parents flex their childrens shit

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instead of their own things

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bro my cousin whos in 12th grade competes with me

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like bro im literally in a whole diff life stage

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he also wants to be a doctor

dire finch
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med school debt aside

tranquil wagon
tardy shell
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ever since he turned 14 he would ask me like "oh whats that compound called, oh was the electron configuration of this and this"

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"dwag idk"

dire finch
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aint no way hes asking ece guy chemistry

tardy shell
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i havent done chem in so long

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hes just pissed im only 19 and am almost done with college and his ass is 18 in 12th grade

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stupid ass kid

tranquil wagon
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Just direct him to this server and his dreams will be crushed and all will be right

tardy shell
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not my fault you didnt get the tism

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and i did

dire finch
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no

tardy shell
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like the national limit

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so it wasnt rlly his fault

dire finch
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national age limit for grade is crazy iwl

tardy shell
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like india has a date range for when you can get put in this grade

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or state

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atleast

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and he got the extreme end

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and when i moved to germany i got moved up even more cuz i did the entrance exam for my school

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and scored p well

dire finch
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what is optimal birthday discuss

tardy shell
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hes a goober tho

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so it doesnt matter

dire finch
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sure but like

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some birthdays are better than others socially

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ex may/june birthdays can drink during junior internship

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im late july i dont think it's too beneficial

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ya lotta people bang on new years

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/ valentines / christmas

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in america prob small bump in march-april cuz of july 4th

tardy shell
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i was 16 when i graduated but turned 17 right after

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i turned 18 like right before my first internship

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only reason i could work at merck during the school year was cuz instead of paying me they paid my tuition

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as a scholarship

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thank god to whatever genius came up with that

dire finch
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what's a merck

tardy shell
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nah whatever the tc was like 33/hr

dire finch
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can i eat

tardy shell
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and they prorated that for a sem and paid it to my uni

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bro that vc one gotta be a scam

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holy shit

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they are looing for slave labor

dire finch
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no wonder it's poverty

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i wonder if the w2 company name is different

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would background check catch it

tardy shell
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it is swe

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they never asked what part of org

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youre doing swe work

dire finch
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10 months of mle babyyyyy

tardy shell
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key info is relative

dire finch
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we do addition around here

tardy shell
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key to one person is not important to others

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dawg i dont wanna go to fort lauderdale with a bunch of cit interns

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what kinda broke location they taking us to

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i legit thought it was some crazy expesnive resort ni key west

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or something

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or miami

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beach

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yh but its fucking lauderdale, ive been there for spring break and its literally just bad

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ugh

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im gonna get covid

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or something

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yh but i was fob intl

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i had to see it with my own eyes

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you know how scary it is for grown women to hit on you when youre 17

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my parents dont care they dont want me to get with a brown person

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too much family drama

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they say im too white and should marry a white person

dire finch
tardy shell
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fr

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but the first and only time i dated a brown girl it didnt end well

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so maybe they were onto someting

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i cant fw the hiding shit from parents yknow

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like after 3 months i cant tell me paernts im dating oyu

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not a real relationship

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and i cant tell my parents if she cant tell hers

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cuz her dad thinks im subhuman

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cuz of my caste

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even tho i earn more than him in one summer

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but ok

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us citizen but fully raised in india

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right above the lowest one

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yh

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i mean my parents never rlly talked to me about caste and shit until i started hanging around more indians

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they are super liberal and shit

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also her being tracked constantly

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so she would randomly get calls if were getting coffee

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like why arent you at your dorm

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and we just chilling in a cafe doing hw

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man its so common with brown girls

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shits irritating

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like i cant do anything with you

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no walks,

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no drives

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cant even take you to walk the dog cuz your bum dad is gonna think youre getting kidnapped

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yh so i genreally now dont date brown girls which is sad cuz yknow

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it literally is my race

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fuck no

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i also didnt know how much self racism brown mfs had

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god damn

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like ive been bullied for skin color and shit ofc, and people have made comments but i never ever thought "bro i wish i wasnt brown"

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mfing dudes will straight up say "i wish i was white"

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like cmon man

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whats wrong with you

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a non negligible amt of brown girls call brown dudes desperate and ugly, and to combat that brown dudes bcome the stereotype of the weirdy creepy dude

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like cmon bro

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beatings for both

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yh it goes both ways

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most ran through men and women i know top 10 is all brown

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both men and women

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oh its probably 0 here as well

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but like those who are high

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are super high

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nah barely

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we are eng and cs school first

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liberal arts is tiny

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ok it isnt 0 its like 1.3 matybe

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ik too many ngmi

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but its fine my friend group only got 1 virgin left in it now

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everyone else finally graudated from ngmi

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now that 1 dude gotta face his faults

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nah i think its best to lose it in college

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well i ddi hs and i dont regret it one sec

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but college

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get that shit out your system

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bad good doesnt matter

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it just builds character

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obviously im not counting traumatic shit

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i think a lot of dudes who are virgins as they get older start seeing women as statistics or as prizes

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not in a fucked up way, but more in a this is something i need to win

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like a video game

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fresh and fit?

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those red pill mfs

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ohhh ik

thin quest
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lmaoooo

tardy shell
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yh not fresha nd fit

thin quest
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ik whatchu talking about

tardy shell
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bro you become normal

thin quest
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early asl

tardy shell
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i swear that is a neurological change

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mf came back with fixed posture

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non chalant as shit

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started smoking cigs

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hispanic conference for swe

thin quest
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LMAO

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me and lo5 gotta slide

tardy shell
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he went there, slept with a girl, got verkada, came back

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and now has a girl

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and verkada

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like jesus

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his entire hunchback is gone

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like crazy

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and bro didnt even tell us its only when i met him i immedaitely clocked it

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i literally said "bro you did it didnt you"

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i oculd just tell

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he was lil broing us

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like wtf

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bro hes the group comedian

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and he became hella serious

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and like "guys we gotta lock in and get jobs and good opportunities"

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this the same mf who be cheating in every class

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and exam

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lock in and do your hw dolt

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you wont believe me when i tell you

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but you gotta trust me im not fucking with you

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so hes hella into it

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and since freshman year does it

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like thats his pass time

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and he met her, last feb

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and they kept in contact

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shes also in some cali college

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they went to shpe

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shes actually hispanic

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yh

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MAN I CANT EVEN ASK OUT THE GIRL IN MY CLASS BRO, THIS DUDE GOT A GIRL THROUGH OMEGLE

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WHAT AM I DOING

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its fine im not gonna date anyone until august

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im on cool down

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fr my crashout last sem was too big

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so im gonna relax and enjoy the single life

cold heart
tardy shell
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it was just bad

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just a lot of drinking myself ot sleep ngl

cold heart
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lmfao, i've been there bro

tardy shell
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depressing

cold heart
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oh damn

tardy shell
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and long night walks

cold heart
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if it makes you feel any better i fumbled this girl whose sister was Miss Peru

tardy shell
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wtf

cold heart
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and i didnt learn that until after we were done with our thing we had

tardy shell
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yh id be drinking myself to sleep as well

cold heart
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i have new gf now and i really like her a ton and im happy the way things turned out, but that was a crazy fumble

tardy shell
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yh i just got cheated on 💀

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id rather be a fumbler ngl

cold heart
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oh damn that sucks dude

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crashout is totaly valid

slate pond
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anyone knows what to expect for two sig's freshman swe, final round technical?

timber swift
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what the fuck did i read from kerfuffle

vocal nexus
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does anyone have experience breaking into quant trading after starting work as a SWE?

fresh swallow
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5.2k a month is poverty? It's an internship bruh

dire finch
fresh swallow
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Not grindy

fresh swallow
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Not like you need to be a genius to work on startup type apps

dire finch
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sure but it's clearly riding the name to underpay people who expect market rate from a tower position

toxic delta
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startup people are among the smartest lol, especially if the startup is doing well

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without any discussion

tardy shell
thin quest
tardy shell
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Idk why I keep saying HPC when their main thing is BI

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But I always seem them hiring for HPC shit from my uni

fresh swallow
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Just do it, don't wait for some perfect opportunity. Ask her to meet you out at a bar or a party. Throw a party yourself if you're underage and don't have any to invite her to

peak egret
tardy shell
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Recently

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They have hella big clients

peak egret
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Oh damn

tardy shell
tardy shell
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what od people do with their bonuses

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and is it always at the end of the year?

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how is it taxed

fresh swallow
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I think it's taxed pretty hefty but then you get it back on your return

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Depends on the company when they get handed out the 2 I've worked for it's been in march

tardy shell
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DAWG I APPLIED TO THEM IN JUNE

image.png
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I FULLY FORGOT ABOUT THIS COMPANY

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HOLY SHIT

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@lunar thicket arent they some ML mfs

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like XTX

fiery pawn
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anyone attemped Citadel Securities Software Engineering Campus Assessment 2024-2025 OA ?

untold prawn
stuck anvil
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How well known is 2Sig by regular tech companies

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I'm weighing up options and I want to consider opps when exiting

fresh swallow
tardy shell
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investing maxx with that bonus

tardy shell
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How is Jupiter

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What a name for a place btw

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Jupiter Florida

gilded trail
tardy shell
lime cradle
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anyone have advice for hrt algo dev?

tardy shell
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dont fail

pallid berry
lime cradle
lethal apex
tardy shell
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guys i may have cooked

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reached out to uni graduate who was tower cto in emea region

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and now in tower doing something else

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i might have cooked majorly

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and now i got a phone call next week

neon mirage
spiral rivet
dire finch
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know how to yap properly

grim sigil
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what’s 2s tc for swe

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anyone know

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  • what is their progression
gilded trail
tardy shell
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no role just a call with the dude

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i mean im not rlly gonna hold my breath on anything nor do i want a role, but it always helps to have a cto in a big quant firm in your contactc list

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oh yh this is what is says on his linkedin

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so hes something more than cto now

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he was in the alumnia network data base

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and I was just scrolling through it cuz im part of it and was bored

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yh i was blanking on the name

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im sorry im pregaming by myself trying to finish stoch calc assingment before i go out

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so its a race to finish this hw or get drunk where i wont be able to finish this hw

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how good is g research

grim sigil
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are u drinking alone

tardy shell
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just ask here bro

tardy shell
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@lunar thicket ngl living in jupitver for a few months gotta be nice

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MOOOOOOOOODS

spare fossil
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oh boy 🤓

tardy shell
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YO THEY SCAMMING OUT HERE

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WHAT THE FUCK

quasi orbit
lapis glen
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how fast does jane street reject after final

lime zealot
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usually if you dont get offer day of ur cooked

lapis glen
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same day?

lime zealot
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if the recruiter doesnt come in your room after your final

neon mirage
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This seems valid considering most of their code has your life depending on it

tranquil wagon
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8 is dumb and 9 is unrealistic, the rest are decent in my opinion

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What if you want an array of c strings lol

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the preprocessor is an incredibly useful tool and all evaluated at compile time. most of their rules seem to be to limit worst case behavior (like no recursion, static upper bounds on loops, etc), but preprocessor can be fully statically analyzed

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decays to char** in a lot of situations

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ok now u have char***

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congrats on more pointers

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if u had char*[max_len] as a statically sized array and you wanted to pass that into a function you would pass it as a char**

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yeah I think so but that's a different case

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I'm talking about a 1d array of char*s

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like if you had a list of strings in read only memory

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Yeah i think those are generally pretty decent guidelines but at a certain point of idiot-proofing a language like C you actually just cut out useful language features

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Oh awesome, that's a cool goal

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Are you trying to write C specifically

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If ur trying to write good modern C++ then a lot of C guidelines aren't relevant because you end up ignoring a lot of the C parts of the language completely

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Effective C++ and Effective Modern C++ by Scott Meyers are two of my favorite books but they require some knowledge of basic C++ first

terse barn
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ngl if u actually followed 7 ur code would be so verbose

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checking every return value is crazy

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also 9 is hard to do

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yeah

tranquil wagon
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u just have to explicitly ignore it

terse barn
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why though

tranquil wagon
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I dont necessarily have a problem with that

tranquil wagon
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its what swift does

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Because normally functions return values for a good reason so you should have an equally good reason to ignore it and you should make that intention clear

terse barn
terse barn
twilit flint
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Hello I'm new here, are Fall 2025 postings out already?

lethal apex
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I wish there were man pages for cpp

tranquil wagon
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I have an offline copy of that which I use

tardy shell
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maybe im overthinking since i havent even interned yet but do most people just take the ROs they get at their internships

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do they try to recruit for the smaller firms?

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ansatz, headlands, radix etc

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aqr

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idk about tier or rank about any of these

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cuz whats the next thing after this stage do you just try to rise up in your firm?

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when do you try to change jobs

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im so confused about progression

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its not like it matters rn but atleast for faang i have an idea, like yh if you start with G, try to go to meta for quick promo

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etc etc

lethal apex
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Yea you overthinking, get the offer first

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Most firms are pretty flat so your confusion makes sense tho

tardy shell
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but yh i gotta wait for RO

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then worry about it

lethal apex
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firm dependent but it shouldn’t surprise you there isn’t much progression when you start off making 500k

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Not only does your value to the firm have to represent more than 500k, you are highly replaceable

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so the reason you aren’t hearing about progression is because most people never progress

tardy shell
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ah i see

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damn that kinda sucks

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i guess there goes my planning mindset

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im also intl so my first ng place gotta be not fucked

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i cant rlly leave for 3-5 years

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unless i get yeeted

lethal apex
tardy shell
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email

tranquil wagon
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Because you can make more than that in like 4 years at a lot of big tech

untold prawn
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but ~6 a lot more common

tranquil wagon
stone drum
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whereas tech is a bit more uniform but less

tranquil wagon
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Can you elaborate

tranquil wagon
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Yeah that makes sense

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But how does it scale

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Is it possible to make any generalizations

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Ok, thanks

lethal apex
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"u up?"

lethal apex
thin quest
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literally swe work

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same shit at chrome c++ teams

lethal apex
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traders/researchers are coming into these firms (!Trillium) and making what big tech is making 4 years in, yes, but the reality is you are making it now rather than later

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you ask how it scales, I don't really get what that means

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CMU/MIT churn out hordes of prospects you just have to pit them against each other while they make the firm money

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they get to tell people they work at a pod shop, you and the partners make bank

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my fault gng as a 100x engineer I've been taking all of their offers

dire finch
meager comet
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Yea in the end you will just have to do your own research and verify

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I just ask around from multiple places

tranquil wagon
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Thanks for the clarification haha, I was a little worried

meager comet
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How "translatable" is quant swe skills to big tech

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I know quant swes tend to get downleveled

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Kinda suck if you decide you don't want to do quant anymore and just switch to big tech

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Though I think the "downleveled" people get promoted pretty quickly also

fresh swallow
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(Imo)

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Working as a trading firm c++ swe out of new grad I have no idea wtf big tech people be talking about

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No idea what kubernetes or k8s are

rugged rampart
lethal apex
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was talking about non-dev, mostly focused on trading.

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I could've been more specific but also context clues help

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even post-COVID swe progression is a yellow brick road

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with neon arrows pointing in the right direction

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in what way

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did you even read what I said or just stopped to respond

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person A was confused about quant progression, I responded by saying their confusion is justified - most traders don't make it

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in what way

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clearly not RO, or first-year numbers maintained

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Optiver class drops to 25% within the first year, IMC dropped a quarter of their new group in 4 months

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these are completely opposite to tech

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it's not though, you hit a plateau very early on

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sure, there are exceptions, but this is really common

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and if it wasn't we wouldn't have 30 million XYZ capitals around chicago

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idk its ngmi

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Yea makes sense, what's your point

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Google fucking prints money dawg there's no way it would be L5

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still crazy how well their ad business

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organizational acumen

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on my momma I could lead a firm rn

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1 job posting a year in MIT/Loo/Stanford's handshake, have a minimalistic website or sm

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interview w new york post claiming to only use regression

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Anyway you've provided no evidence for A, the second is unclear what you meant by, and the third seems to be again, a survivorship bias.

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L7 is leading product developments tho it doesn't seem that fun

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and if I did I wouldn't give it to you lil bro 🙏

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people also know who killed jfk, what's your point

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yea

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dev but working there 10 yr

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some linux kernel maintainer

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Rift are you a trader

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dev

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idk I think you are yapping but you are also in the field so

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*this discussion did not happen if I happen to work under you

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what firm

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if its 5r prob not

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devs nah bc you are likely to actually still be around to rise in the org

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the whole point I'm making is that because of the RO, attrition rates, you can't look at the 3 yr salary and consider that as your eventual position

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as a dev I can do that

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SIG 🔥

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that's tuff

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I would cry if I got fired within 4 months

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ngl

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hell nah I'd bawl like a baby I have no shame

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I'd need to hit a new gym pr or sm after

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lowk Rift gotta talk to me in the mornings or sm, feel like we only ever argue

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nah I started it all good unc

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how many years you been in the game

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nah I'm not talking to that guy 😂 he got my whole address and everything

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like I said before tho if you yap here a lot a doxx is expected

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so maybe deserved for me

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anyone working in tech since the 90s is just on a different level tbh

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osint dawg you should have enough on me

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I know yo ass not working on the fpga project lmao

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🙏 cooked

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what classes

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I am also taking a weird cyber sec class

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unc trying to fit in

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aura

granite bough
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me

meager comet
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Do you think this is true long term?

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Like genuinely

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My bad forgot to address what I was talking about

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Like trader TC being >= SWE TC

dire finch
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u mean up or out right

meager comet
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So even if you have a of experience as a SWE, a trader with a decade of exp will make more on average?

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RIP

dire finch
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higher variance than swe though

meager comet
#

QRs on top of them all though right

granite bough
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what team are u on for nac rift?

dire finch
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and pod manager tops all of them

meager comet
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Aiming for SWE -> QR path

granite bough
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haha same nw

dire finch
meager comet
granite bough
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is this ur last year

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ah rip

dire finch
granite bough
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yeah fair enough the experience seems fun

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its my first time

meager comet
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Did you do comp math?

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Wait so you got quant during undergrad?

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With no extensive exp in comp math or CS

meager comet
dire finch
#

they just hire a better person off the bat

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...

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you are not main character

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yeah but difficult to justify internal transition unless they intentionally underpay him

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(if direct swe -> qr)

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if it's algo dev at hrt or somethign thats obviously different hierarchy altogether

meager comet
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I assume you go to a top school though right @primal shell

dire finch
#

but expecting (network dev) -> (pnl generating qr) is a little silly

meager comet
dire finch
#

eh at that point it's closer to some hybrid mle/ds role which is a lot more plausible

spiral rivet
#

does anyone know if putting "akuna options 101" even does anything

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or akuna options 201

neon mirage
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can someone explain deferred bonuses at HF? is this just mandatory vesting of a % of your bonus?

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and are there any benefits to deferring more (if optional)

tardy shell
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this message is endorsed by ken griffin

dire finch
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c++ low latency orz

spiral rivet
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anyone want to do imc prosperity challenge w me

odd belfry
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I'm going through this list a few years later. Eldorado trading is a sex toy distributor 😂

mossy seal
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heres what the homepage looks like now:

image.png
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I'd love feedback from this community because quant interviews is what I originally made it for

peak egret
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NO WAY

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LOL i made almost the same thing

clear gorge
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but i said six and it said sex

mossy seal
mossy seal
peak egret
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what speech to text model are you using?

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when i made mine i found google's was the best

mossy seal
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Just the built in Google chrome one

peak egret
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hm

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id try an actual stt model

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im not to sure what the built in google one is like

mossy seal
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What would you recommend

near nymph
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very cool! but yeah for some reason struggles with recognizing single digit numers

somber token
peak egret
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also ibm has one too though i explicitly remember it being a pain to set up so i just didnt use it

dire finch
tardy shell
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anyone know what to expect for Tower ML Intern first phone

sacred breach
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does anyone have advice for me, on how to prep for jane street phone int?

tardy shell
sacred breach
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this is for fall

tardy shell
peak egret
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Anyone know anything about what interview is like for StoneX desk quant?

lethal apex
peak egret
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Nuh uh

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Poker hand simulator woulda taken more time lol

mossy seal
mossy seal
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im tryna make a better zetamac

tardy shell
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poll_question_text

2 quant internships back to back worth it? Or do I do ML/research at big tech in fall. Thinking about phd/academia in 5-6 years

victor_answer_votes

22

total_votes

30

victor_answer_id

1

victor_answer_text

Do 2 quant

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lmao it might be 3 real soon 💀

spiral rivet
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also prev exp?

tardy shell
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he is literally the only person from my school at tower

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mf made me go through his assistant just to talk to me on my cell phone

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smh

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couldve just called me

spiral rivet
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damn mustve cooked w the cto then

tardy shell
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then it was just yapping about how shitty some classes are

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like bro you got a wife and kids stop yapping to me

spiral rivet
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small talk god

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so would you be in guragon then?

tardy shell
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they probably got enough apps

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the gurgaon one just went up

spiral rivet
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wow tower ml in nyc would be sick

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basically full time intern atp

tardy shell
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im going to touch you

tardy shell
cedar sparrow
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anyone done weiss qt process before?

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have 2 interviews this week and dk what to expect

cedar sparrow
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im at a semi target

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but not a quant target at all lol no one from my school has gone to weiss

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my interviewers are both harvard 😭

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chat idt theyve even heard of my school

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LMFCAO

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i applied fundamental lol

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they redirected me into quant based on resume screen

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asnd then i accel'd using another offer

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they havent opened quant apps yet

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that opens nex t week

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nope but im in a js pipeline righ tnow

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accel'd into strategy

tardy shell
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everybody in js process rn

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this is why zon > javascript

cedar sparrow
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i promise you i am not LMFAO

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i applied for S&T and they told me to apply for quant, but i accel'd with an offer i have, and they pushed me into strat

tardy shell
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weiss asking for transcript

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yh im cooked

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how tf mfs even heard about these places

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crazy

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wtf

cedar sparrow
#

radix?

tardy shell
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aqr?

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vatic?

cedar sparrow
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who does 200 lol

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presumeably most quant doesnt happen until summer

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lot of instability on small firms though lmao

tardy shell
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fr

cedar sparrow
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if u go back ft they could be gone within 2 years lol

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instability is a fundamental flaw of subscale ops though lol

tardy shell
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oh i remember emailing rentec freshman year looking for internshiops

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lemme find the emial

cedar sparrow
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'thanks for your email. we have blocked your email now'

tardy shell
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nobody laugh bro

image.png image.png
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this is like 1.5 monmths into freshman year

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the fucking gall on fershman me

cedar sparrow
tardy shell
cedar sparrow
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wtf

tardy shell
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they asnwered in less than 30 mins

cedar sparrow
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wow

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im surprised they even answered lol

tardy shell
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@rose holly this is why whats happening now is happening. The origin story

cedar sparrow
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rentec is so cool

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they hbave so much aura

rose holly
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thats how u got in

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persistence

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damn

tardy shell
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🤫

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its a process

cedar sparrow
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my goat

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did u get some cracked shit

tardy shell
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no

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im zon

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incoming

cedar sparrow
tardy shell
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man i cant believe i fucking sent that email

cedar sparrow
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i thought rentech employees werent allowed to

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like

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be associasted with the fund

tardy shell
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full company email

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i emailed the email they have in contact us

cedar sparrow
tardy shell
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yh

cedar sparrow
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i always thought they were hellla secretive

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imagine being able to say 'oh yeah im a part of the medallion fund'

rose holly
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damn kerf we grinding for some big finals rn..... we both in this grind together.....

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me

tardy shell
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brio

rose holly
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cfaang......

tardy shell
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danke

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cfaang gonna save us all

cedar sparrow
rose holly
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wait i thought ur being open ab it now

tardy shell
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fuck no

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wait ill dm

rose holly
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the c especially

cedar sparrow
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true.

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bro tried sneaking amazon in there

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💀

rose holly
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new acronym is cfang

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lets be real

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c1 is new amazon

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now if it was up to me

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cng is what id say it should be

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but i digress

mellow aurora
#

Really it's just mag7 now

grim sigil
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i think capital one > meta for career progression

tardy shell
#

With this treasure, I summon Eight-Handled Sword Divergent Sila Divine General Mahoraga @steady ferry

lapis glen
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any suggestions for a system-centric company/startup that actually lets interns contribute

rose holly
cursive granite
lapis glen
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like many system companies put interns to do a "mini project" that's quite separated from the team's focus - my prev internship included

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it'd be awesome to have a company or startup that just lets interns grind and give them real projects that has immediate user impact

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ik many product-focused companies who would happily put their interns to real work but don't know much about system companies like Pure storage, Arista, Nvidia, snowflake, db etc

tardy shell
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is he playing runescape

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@lunar thicket bro how does one join the call

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like call with him

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bruh its about to be 12 am, and i got a friend coming over to spend the night

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this is ngmi behaviopr if i stay on this strema

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i wanna know incoming stream bro

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or just start asking him interview questions

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"bro i got this OA rn, cna you help me out"

gilded trail
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cj cant leetcode

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hes a commerce major and doesnt do lc

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so i assumed

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maybe not 6 yrs ago

tardy shell
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fuck it bruh i should just work ft for 3 years and then become youtuber

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sell coruses

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and do an mba in ucla or something

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I’d capture the international market

gilded trail
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u can do that w/o actually breaking into big tech or quant

cedar sparrow
gilded trail
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those people are under cover quants

cedar sparrow
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dunning kruger the idiot who failed algebra 1 into thinking he’s a ‘technical analysis expert’ who can ‘identify signals’ through looking at arrows

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selling various levels of ‘exclusivity’ as to make them all create different layers of my pyramid scheme

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oh wsg andrew tate

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‘why! bc i STUDIED BRO’

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the botted instagram reels accounts

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are so funny

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it’s fine these tiktoks can continue the average idiot who studies ‘math and finance’ will get weeded out of basic r1s

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(it’s me, i’m the idiot)

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pretty hard

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it’s not as common of a process as like banking sell -> buy side is

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sell side quant is very robotic
buy side quant is supposed to be very talent based

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the idea is people who end up as sell side quants do so because they don’t have the skill set (most of the time) to end up on buy side

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this is simply an attempt at an explanation as to why the pipeline is small

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there are always some successful S&T type people who end up becoming buy siders but it’s a few

gilded trail
#

sell side qr not making more than a top swe

cedar sparrow
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good shit

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you beating 99% of this server atp

gilded trail
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what does escaping swe have to do w this

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ic

cedar sparrow
gilded trail
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nothing wrong w chasing tc

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gotta put food on the table

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i need some good food

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200k worth of food

cedar sparrow
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yes you do what

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in this economy u need 800k

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i just need a tc high enough that i can continue going to erewhon

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yeah idt my dad wants to sponsor my lifestyle after i graduate though

gilded trail
#

Not even qr

cedar sparrow
gilded trail
#

Yea ik

cedar sparrow
#

mayhaps

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mayhaps not

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u from UCLA?

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yeah welcome to dtla lol

stiff elbow
gilded trail
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i suspect so but something tells me the buyside people are not so great at social skills either

gilded trail
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dont know for sure

stiff elbow
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werent people saying he was at aquatic?

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idk if that was a joke

gilded trail
#

Not sure

gilded trail
tranquil wagon
cedar sparrow
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i’m now dooming here along the real greats

tranquil wagon
cedar sparrow
#

i literally cannot sleep

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i might wake up and study a bit

tranquil wagon
cedar sparrow
tranquil wagon
cedar sparrow
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thanks goat

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buy is HF/PT shops that look to bring return on capital they either manage or own.

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sell is within banks and sales and trading ops. lot of s&t stuff is executional and not purely on identifying and developing the most novel strats

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it depends. a lot of brokerage stuff exists on the sell side to help instituonal clients make their orders come through. but actual HFT MM is generally done by buy side firms

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not sure thing

untold prawn
mellow aurora
lapis glen
dire arrow
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why we hating on erewhon

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goated smoothies n hot bar

dire finch
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$20 smoothie...

untold prawn
#

shi is a social experiment to see what u can get away w/ charging

dire arrow
dire finch
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i can make better at home + in bulk

dire finch
#

money diminishing value

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smoothie is not

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i value the 10,000,000,000th mL as much as the first

cedar sparrow
#

malibu mango to die for bro

grim sigil
#

the person that pays for this needs to be in prison

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20 for a smoothie aint it gang

cedar sparrow
dire finch
#

for $20 you can drink water then snort an eighth after

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that shit's pretty goated too

devout tiger
#

when does jane street open for winter usually?

grim sigil
#

usually after i tell hr to open up the roles

cedar sparrow
low vault
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U should just build a web scraper for the application page

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Link it to a webhook and have it ping u when it opens

heavy palm
tall glacier
#

Fun fact, Jane Street doesn't operate within Australia but my uni soc had an gelato event with them today

earnest sluice
#

Hey, Anybody do Citadel Launch interview recently?

main totem
#

Anyone know what cubist onsite is like?

last plover
#

Suggest some resources for OA round ??

grim sigil
#

this is why nobody every gets questions answered

mellow aurora
#

People just wanna cheat lol

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Git gud

spiral rivet
#

anyone know what's on akuna capital oa?

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is it just mental math + sequences?

dire finch
#

Yes

halcyon zealot
#

summer 26 or what is it

spiral rivet
#

summer 26

tardy shell
#

YO CAN SOMEONE TELL ME WHAT THE FUCK TOWER ASKS

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BECAUSE ALL IM SEEING IS THAT IM GETTING INTERVIEWED BY SOME IITD PEOPLE AND IM SCARED

thin quest
#

indian olympaid q's

halcyon zealot
tardy shell
#

indian olympiad is lwk so shit

#

even when i lived in india i would be crushing NSO, and NMO for years 2-3 yeras older than mine

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they gonna fs school gap me

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i alr know

cedar sparrow
tranquil wagon
cedar sparrow
#

its been so long bro

#

give me one hour

tranquil wagon
#

Also I’ll be washed

cedar sparrow
#

and yeah

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im washed too

tranquil wagon
cedar sparrow
#

LETS DSO IT

rose holly
tardy shell
#

masters

lethal apex
#

making me wanna do a masters with how much free time you have

ivory sun
#

Or QC

hoary nymph
#

Can anyone dm me tqd link? 🙂

tardy shell
#

QC is my ee work

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cs doesnt have qc at my uni

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but ee does

ivory sun
#

I see I see

spiral rivet
dire finch
cedar sparrow
#

what are the highest paying firms?

cursive granite
#

optiver?

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correct me

#

if im wrong

fresh swallow
#

?

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And what team

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(I'm not gonna give out what we ask given that it's easy to figure out who I am just curious)

lethal apex
cedar sparrow
lethal apex
#

focus up

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lock in

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Around 2 am I suddenly get an inclination to become a qr

cedar sparrow
#

it means u should sleep

thin quest
#

bro said maybe it'll happen in your dreams

prime onyx
#

Anyone have tips to pass the trivia portion of interviews

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Like how do you study for that type of stuff instead of just nerding out and memorizing the c++ std library implementation code

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I got asked how maps are implemented under the hood in c++

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Like ok bruh I didn’t know they used red black trees my bad

meager comet
#

Dive into docs

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Then use ChatGPT to generate example trivia questions

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Prob won't work that well

dire finch
#

they filter for nerds with those questions

meager comet
#

Like fr just actually dive into the docs

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Quant firms just want high IQ nerds

dire finch
#

bro complaining he's getting filtered out

meager comet
#

There's no choice

dire finch
#

do you know difference between linux CFS and EEDVF

#

neither do 99.95% of people but if you read the optional chapter in OSTEP and do your own digging you will know

meager comet
#

I'm just curious but do you guys think filtering for nerds work that well

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Like being a nerd does not equal strong engineering skills yk

dire finch
#

depends on team structure cuz ppl that are this nerdy have high variance on cooperation

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and it depends on type of nerdy

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is it "i only care about this niche thing" nerdy or is it "i sponge up knowledge like a... sponge" nerdy

meager comet
#

Like a downside of being an ultra nerd is you also have a very high chance of getting nerdsniped and focus on irrelevant shit instead of actual business needs

dire finch
#

ya true ultranerd is prob worse at playing/detecting office politics

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but that's teachable skill

lethal apex
#

It’s sort of like making the claim that most people can’t dribble a basketball with their left hand. True in most areas, not true if you entered an nba stadium.

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Non random sampling of a distribution does not necessarily increase the variance type shi

cursive granite
#

yo any recommendations for resources on embedded system, embedded software engineer?

fresh swallow
#

yeah this

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There is no guidance on what to ask whatsoever

tranquil wagon
#

Probably in C, C++ might be ok as long as you stay mindful of the amount of template bloat

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Then you’re an embedded developer!

dire finch
#

stack allocating strings Pog

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thats my goat

tranquil wagon
prime onyx
#

one of my friends had interview with radix for ft

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apparently the COO joined the interview

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thats insane lol

tardy shell
#

wtf

prime onyx
#

i could spend all day reading c++ libaries

dire finch
#

ya so optimal strategy is to learn wide and not deep

prime onyx
#

and they'll ask me niche concept in another thing

dire finch
#

use knowledge synthesis instead of memorization

prime onyx
dire finch
#

if you know enough random shit you can usually work things out or remember things from logical sequence / intuition

#

it's about cultivating the all-to-all network in your head

lethal apex
dire finch
#

that's my goat chaddy

tranquil wagon
prime onyx
#

Or was it one off

tranquil wagon
prime onyx
#

Oh Loool

cedar sparrow
dire finch
#

chad saved my parents' parents from a burning temple

cursive granite
#

that'w wild asf

prime onyx
#

yea i asked someone else

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coo is like head of staff or something and she approves of all new hires

#

i guess it makes sense when ur paying each person minimum like 500k+

cedar sparrow
#

could not recommend more for this quantitative developer internship

low vault
#

Radix is very small

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Okay I lie it’s pretty surprising

#

But it’s less surprising when you realize how small the company is

livid wedge
#

one of the cofounders does the first screen for some ng technologist interviews

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asks some dumb hard cpp questions

low vault
#

drakeno ng interview
drakeyes intern interview

thin quest
#

why's the difference so much tho

low vault
#

i get the impression that some firms do a good amount of NG recuriting -- like JS and HRT

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others... not so much