#quants-n-traders

1 messages · Page 78 of 1

tiny sleet
#

i don't think that's kt

#

the way he spoke was different

#

i can tell

#

bumass was pinging me to tell me about the lore with his girlfriend who blocked him

dire finch
tiny sleet
#

the ft radix position has to be a lie

#

aw damn

#

unfortunate

#

yeah i could tell lol

#

wtf was allat kitty lore

#

bro was talking crazy about you stealing his girlfriend or some crap lmao

dire finch
#

andy could but he holds back

snow atlas
#

what's tqd?

#

can i get an invite?

tropic patrol
#

KT

#

There’s a fake KT going around btw lol

#

I think it’s mip

tiny sleet
#

who's mip

#

not caught up on the lore

tropic patrol
#

Some ngmi who’s at c1 and zon

#

😂

tiny sleet
tiny sleet
zenith panther
#

KT?

tiny sleet
#

in what way

#

like what are the kinds of things he would say

#

we're cooked

mellow aurora
#

No that was @limpid pulsar

snow atlas
#

surely not, there's no way

#

what qualifications?

junior orchid
#

Congrats bro

tropic patrol
#

Ur ngmi

tiny sleet
dire finch
#

I just got my free gift card! Thanks Jaxon.

stiff dagger
#

hi my beautiful coast guard friend

snow atlas
#

anybody hear back from SIG after taking the fall 2025 SWE intern OA?

tranquil wagon
snow atlas
#

ghost ping?

tropic patrol
#

KT IS BACK

regal ether
tiny sleet
oblique trail
#

@terse urchin chill tf out kt

#

you aint getting into TQD

tiny sleet
#

if you admit to being kt then there is a chance that you might get sent the tqd link

dire finch
#

omg im kt

tropic patrol
#

He’s kt

#

I just verified

oblique trail
#

Why do you want to join tqd

#

if you are not kt

#

ur ngmi

#

tell me who zaox is

#

sounds like kt

#

u

#

you know

#

you do

sudden aspen
#

How can I transition from Snow ML to quant, would appreciate any tips. is recruiting mostly for summer, or do blue firms also recruit during off cycle?

oblique trail
#

huh?

#

this is kt @terse urchin

#

he dm'ed me

#

asking for tqd invite

#

sure

#

ur an idiot kt

#

dumbass

#

idk how tf i apparently am u

#

when your dumb as shit

#

and dm'ed me

#

asking for a link

#

stfu

#

@lunar thicket this guy is dumb

#

what

#

no dont ban me

#

idk whot tf you are

#

no ban this idiot

#

wtf

#

no

#

@terse urchin stfu idk who you are

#

no i told you hes dumb

#

you are kt

#

wdym

#

idk how i even got banned i just joined and was banned

#

u are kt

#

cause im not him 💀

#

idk

#

i never had an alt

#

lmao

#

that aint me

#

no

#

@terse urchin is kt

#

idk what ur talking about

#

you are kt

#

how do i know

#

your kt

#

prove that your not him

#

you are kt

#

good luck kt

#

no your not real

#

hello saar how do i get da pusy @terse urchin

#

you are weird

#

you are kt

#

lmao

#

what racist shit

#

because you are him

#

kt

#

sure bc it's all true

#

u scammer

#

@terse urchin ur indian so its true

#

lmao

#

call center saar

#

bc why u harassing people

#

give no proof saar

#

as to not harassing

#

why u want tqd saar

#

i just wanted to join tqd to see the turth about your lore

#

why

#

to get all da young call cetner saar

#

why me idk who tf this guy is

#

or how ppl think im him now

#

hes the weird guy here not me

#

@terse urchin how to get zon saar.... sponsor needed....

#

please saar i request 2 crore new grad job

#

says kt lmaooo

#

ur a harraser

#

@lunar thicket ban this guy

#

hes kt

#

whats 1+1 KT

#

hes kt bro im telling u

#

kt confirmed

#

cause hes weird

#

and u are him

#

thats why u dont think hes weird

#

say KT is gay and dumb

#

@terse urchin

#

"for context everyone this guy has been sexually harassing multiple women in TQD for weeks on over 10+ alt accounts"

#

you

#

yes you

#

@terse urchin how is bihar saar

#

@terse urchin saar what color is the hamburger?

tropic patrol
#

Lmfao it’s KT

#

they both are

tiny sleet
#

kt is also a self racist

image.png
#

bro orchestrated this whole shit in dms to make it seem like they're different people

tropic patrol
#

Dude

#

This HAS to be mip

#

It’s not kt

#

Someone pretending to be KY

#

KT

#

bro

#

U might still be KT

#

UR NEVER BREAKING QUANT

tiny sleet
#

shizophrenia

#

wait nah

#

this is more like split personality

tiny sleet
#

i have clear evidence i'll pull it up

tranquil wagon
#

I don’t mind it’s honestly hilarious

tranquil wagon
#

Goes without saying

terse urchin
#

chill

tiny sleet
#

in what way was he harassing women

vague forge
#

chronically online

tiny sleet
timber swift
#

im kt guys sorry to break it to everyone

#

i have 5 undiagnosed mental illnesses

tranquil wagon
timber swift
tranquil wagon
dire finch
#

imposter squilliam lin smh

cursive granite
#

wtf

worn tulip
#

Does anyone know if transitioning from swe to trader at citadel is hard?

timber swift
#

yeah i know

tranquil wagon
#

Which places are open for 2026

cursive granite
#

optiver

#

blackrock

oblique trail
dire finch
#

black cock

tranquil wagon
oblique trail
oblique trail
#

You're KT lmao

oblique trail
#

idonthaveanacc

lethal apex
#

switching between your accounts is next level ngmi

tropic patrol
#

Did a headhunter named Kevin reachout to anyone here lol

oblique trail
#

im not kt so i dont know
@terse urchin is not kt either

#

im not kt so i dont know

#

@terse urchin is not kt either

#

confirmed

#

im 2nd year cs student I don't know

tiny sleet
#

kt me personally i would crash out over this level of disrespect

dire finch
#

kt me personally i would crash my car and flip it

tranquil wagon
#

Either this guy just gets pleasure from confusing everyone or he has some severe mental illness that needs diagnosing because I don’t know what he is trying to achieve

oblique trail
#

i know your not bro

#

they think we are kt

oblique trail
regal ether
#

kt

oblique trail
#

well we aren't kt

#

so we won't argue against each other since we both know the truth.

regal ether
#

Does gpt work on the quant oa's

#

I'm curious cause AI is pretty cracked at codeforces now

dense meadow
#

probably not

#

wait depends

#

on what part of the interview

#

theres like some interviews that have some problem solving questions

#

which it struggles on

#

ive played with it

#

on some math questions

#

it can't get the hard ones

#

ig on the leetcode oa

#

it will work well

regal ether
#

but also its prob worse at abstract math

dense meadow
#

cap

#

gpt 5 prob gonna flatten out

#

yeah

#

it just yaps random shit

regal ether
dense meadow
dense meadow
#

cuz like

#

we're damn near out of data already

#

even 4.5 is data constrained

#

the AI is inbreeding

#

so much data is now AI generated data

regal ether
#

Thanks for the explanation

civic plume
#

Hey folks, I am interviewing for DE shaw for MLE role. experienced. was wondering if anyone has any experience with NY based role.

mellow aurora
civic plume
#

yes for experienced role

#

I want to ask about the interview process in general I was told it will mostly be one leetcode and rest about the previous work. if anyone has any experience I would appreciate if you hit me up

sudden aspen
#

How do I pivot from snow ML to quant, any suggestions/advice

tropic patrol
#

U seem ngmi ngl

#

No SHIT

oblique trail
#

No

#

we just agreed to not argue since we are both being accused as someone we are not

#

so it doesn't help either of us

#

to argue when we are innocent.

sturdy bison
#

Any discord communities that are quant only? Any ones worth joining?

clear grove
midnight verge
languid talon
#

Do you any of you run your own algo based strategies? (I'm sorry if this question has been asked before)

mellow aurora
tropic patrol
#

@lunar thicket what have u heard about GQS EQR and NXT at citadel?

low vault
tropic patrol
low vault
#

wait i dont see anythting lul

tropic patrol
#

Fuck

#

U have to accept me

#

I made new account

low vault
#

o w0t LOL

#

👍

fresh swallow
#

NXT is like a rotation program

#

It's not a team

oblique trail
#

wdym

limpid pulsar
#

idk anything about mle role

zenith panther
#

people just dont realize it yet

scenic pumice
#

gurt: o3 is agi

agile veldt
#

instead of saying "ngmi"

#

say "its over for you"

#

😡

tropic patrol
agile veldt
zenith panther
agile veldt
#

it never began

oblique trail
#

not kt

tropic patrol
low citrus
#

guys

#

will my options go into the money

#

🥺🥺

tranquil wagon
grim sigil
#

it got the important parts right tho

cedar sparrow
#

gurt: sybau

cedar sparrow
low citrus
low citrus
agile veldt
agile veldt
#

sybau

#

These grifters pmo sb

cursive granite
#

sybau

green crane
#

gurt: yo

spiral rivet
#

stupid question but for most interviews are you supposed to have the pdf and cdf of all random variables memorized

dire finch
#

the basic stuff should be locked and loaded

cursive granite
#

hello

tranquil wagon
#

Am I gapped

lethal apex
tranquil wagon
lethal apex
#

please don’t beg for alpha in the quant channel

frozen wadi
#

cooked

timber swift
#

any mid quant alpha pls

#

really need mid quant for new grad

tropic patrol
#

@rose holly 🤒

#

👽

unborn crystal
#

spaceborz

tropic patrol
#

I am

#

Thx

#

Should I make more

unborn crystal
#

who the doom is meowbob

tropic patrol
#

I’m not GMI enough I didn’t get any likes

mellow aurora
unborn crystal
#

holy slorz...

#

shaborz...

cursive granite
#

slorz
wtforz

terse barn
unborn crystal
cursive granite
#

hello orz

#

speemch orz

dire finch
#

im kind of the goat

dire finch
#

im busy on saturday

#

lemme see if quick exponent with matrix is faster

#

orz big ass "constant" factor for matprod

#

i got tle

#

i leet with cpp

#

i have some dignity left i think

south meteor
#

cpp on top

dire finch
#

yeah the problem type is recurrence dp anyway, solving recurrence with matrix transition gets you gold star from math prof and that's it

#

not if your name is c++26

south meteor
#

lol don't know that yet

dire finch
#

c++26 adds native support for linalg with import linalg or #include <linalg>

south meteor
#

any1 working at a fund?

dire finch
#

numpy doesn't support multithreading natively (in python land)

#

iirc u need to use some overhead library

#

the underlying operations all use the same BLAS (already multithreaded)

#

so it's just a matter of user error

#

thank fuck no more boost / eigen

spiral rivet
#

anyone know how to solve this

Screenshot_2025-05-05_at_5.41.24_PM.png
grim sigil
#

just place and then take at the end

#

with the end defined as the last k turns

dire finch
#

^

lethal apex
#

^

haughty hinge
#

Yes

#

Yes

glacial quest
#

thank u

tropic patrol
#

Headlands OA was CANCER

#

WTF

#

top 10 most annoying OA's ive ever done

tropic patrol
#

It was HH

#

also they have an application??

visual cargo
#

Smh out here shilling

tropic patrol
#

@lunar thicket do u have alpha on Tudor/Xantium?

#

1 OA- 3 phones with QR - 3-4 onsite - partner call

#

💀

fresh swallow
#

I don't think I had to do OA for SWE either time I interviewed 🤔

tropic patrol
#

It’s swe

#

did u go straight to phone?

#

@fresh swallow

fresh swallow
#

Yeah

#

Wait nvm

#

They did make me do it as a new grad

tropic patrol
#

Ah

ocean bloom
#

just got headlands oa

#

my internship starts in a month and i gotta start recruiting already i wanna kms

tropic patrol
#

Tf

#

I thought it’s just one day in office

#

Great stuff!

Leave this with me.

Headlands – 90-min coding task (ideally completed in C++, sometimes they allow people to complete in Python). This is followed by two or three 60-min calls with different researchers before a full day on-site. This is typically followed up with one final call (Partner) and can be very technical, as well as team matching/behavioural.

We will aim to time the final stages with completion of your internship.
@rose holly

#

The good thing is u can make it virtual

#

That’s why I’ll prob do it virtual to be less stressful

#

Dude I’d be fried after the first interview

#

I sweat really hard when I have mentally tough situations

tropic patrol
#

LMFAO

#

@ornate river WHAT are u typing

ornate river
#

hey ya'll — need some advice. I'm about to start a software dev role at a quant/HFT firm, and I'm curious about the long-term growth in this space. How's the career progression? Do people usually stick around or eventually move to product-based companies? Just trying to figure out how to think about this early on and make smart choices.

tropic patrol
ornate river
lethal apex
sturdy bison
#

are there quant online communities? like forums and all?

mellow aurora
#

@lunar thicket can you get me a gf

tropic patrol
#

Yeah

#

I was told it’s mostly trivia/impl

distant gazelle
#

was anyone told what the full headlands process is like?

sturdy bison
#

whats tqd

#

andrew seems afk

#

why dont u tellm e

midnight verge
#

@sturdy bison

untold prawn
lethal apex
untold prawn
#

dubs

unique sage
#

when do quant internships typically open up

#

Are there any open right now

neon mirage
#

Brudgewater but it’s like business Eng I think

winged rampart
#

no its not

tropic patrol
tropic patrol
dire finch
#

10 hour onsite LOL

midnight verge
#

The fuck

distant gazelle
#

is de shaw any easier

#

for swe ft

brisk ingot
#

yes but the code sample & references rounds are p hard to pass

green crane
#

all that for an internship??

tropic patrol
#

No

#

NG

tropic patrol
brisk ingot
#

code sample -- u submit a project you worked on and they review it

tropic patrol
#

What the fuck

brisk ingot
#

references -- they call some references u list and ask how cracked you are (not an exaggeration)

tropic patrol
#

Dude that literally jeopardizes me I accepted my RO but im recruiting ng

brisk ingot
#

not sure what qualifies but professors also count

#

friend submitted professor and 1-2 managers afaik, not sure how many they require

brisk ingot
tropic patrol
#

Well shit

clear grove
#

though not sure if they do that for swe

brisk ingot
#

yea i was talking abt swe, other role prolly diff

tiny sleet
tropic patrol
#

Dude im actually so fried

#

I actually screwed myself over I won’t have any recent references 😂

tiny sleet
#

like if i'm a research assistant can i list the professor as a reference

#

wtf

#

ah shit

#

this is actually wild

#

straight up calling the references and asking how cracked you are 💀

tropic patrol
#

My prev manager is on paternity leave

tiny sleet
#

unfortunate

tranquil wagon
#

Did they actually contact all of them

#

That’s crazy lol

tiny sleet
tropic patrol
#

I wouldn’t even list my manager

#

I’d put my mentor

tiny sleet
#

so basically i gotta sweat and glaze all the time

tropic patrol
#

The thing is, I don’t know if he’d give a good enough reference for de Shaw, I did good enough for big tech but not crazy good

#

Head hunter ez

tranquil wagon
#

I need some of that andrew gmi sauce

tiny sleet
tropic patrol
#

Transfer

tiny sleet
#

are you for real

tropic patrol
#

My mentor is a sql head he definitely can’t answer any c++ or os technical questions

tranquil wagon
#

It was a joke I think lol

tiny sleet
#

i'm pretty sure that would mean they would expect a technical reference

tropic patrol
tiny sleet
#

yeah i meant if it was true lol

#

yeah that would be outrageous

tropic patrol
#

Does headlands do this too?

tranquil wagon
#

Yeah lol they’d never do that, like “hello <william’s manager>! Are you ready for your interview to see if you’re gmi enough to vouch for him?”

tiny sleet
#

hr for swes 🤡
hr for quant 🗿

tropic patrol
#

GG bro

#

Remember when we taught that course?

tiny sleet
#

they're gonna ask for the resume too

tranquil wagon
tiny sleet
#

lol

tranquil wagon
#

U have a lor from me any time

tropic patrol
#

We can start now

tropic patrol
#

🫵😂

#

🫵😂😂😂😂

#

👽

tranquil wagon
tiny sleet
#

serious question though, what's the earliest i can ask a professor for a lor

tropic patrol
tranquil wagon
tropic patrol
#

I just sent 4 glaze emails the second I saw de Shaw does it

tiny sleet
tropic patrol
#

Bro

#

Go live ur life

tiny sleet
#

manifesting 🗣️

tiny sleet
tropic patrol
#

That’s actually so sad

#

I’m sorry

tiny sleet
#

bro i'm joking

tropic patrol
#

Are you

#

Wtf do they do

tiny sleet
tropic patrol
#

Relationship sucks if that would damage it lol

#

That’s legit out of ur control

#

My mentor would def flame back

#

First round Monday or Tuesday

#

Prec

#

Unfortunately I have zero ability to distinguish this company from like de Shaw and etc

#

Like would u take de Shaw over headlands

#

Like making decisions about ng without interning there is so impossible in my head

#

bc ng shapes ur career trajectory

#

so hard

#

If u could pick any firm

#

Assuming tc is marginal

#

Where would u go

#

Yeah Swe / qd

stone drum
#

how to get js qt full time goat

tropic patrol
#

Cry

winged rampart
#

idk if thats correct

#

they interview from 10am-7pm?

#

is this for fulltime or intern?

lucid cloak
winged rampart
#

and they open at 8am iirc

lucid cloak
#

So u were prev js

winged rampart
#

i was 10am-4pm

lucid cloak
#

Idk I’m just asking

winged rampart
#

fulltime?

#

for intern is crazy work

#

u did 5 rounds?

#

ik software is only 4

#

damn good stuff you did well either way

#

if you get rejected final round they usually interview you the following year

#

I'm hoping to try again Summer 2026

#

oh shiiit

#

thats insane

#

ik RO is hard as shit to get

tropic patrol
#

what if u wanna start ur day at like 10-11

#

That they lock pc?

#

That’s so aids

#

I get most of my work done after hours

brisk ingot
winged rampart
abstract storm
#

What is the best trading firm

tropic patrol
exotic laurel
#

Yo might be a stupid question but I’ll be starting to apply for FT after this summer and was wondering if there’s any job listing sites like the simplify repo for swe

lucid cloak
#

Sounds a bit dehumanizing ngl 💀

past kernel
#

has anyone interviewed for tower research ml intern

lethal apex
#

hazing during superday is wild

visual smelt
#

Does anyone know how many new grads Jane street hires (non intern conversions?)

dire arrow
vast relic
#

Just do post grad intern

tropic patrol
fresh swallow
#

Would assume the reason they lock the computers to certain hours is so that the semi normal kids don't have to compete against losers who will do this

#

This is not investment banking chill the fuck out

neon mirage
#

Your co workers prob hated you.

dense meadow
#

Damn wtf

tropic patrol
#

Yeah but now ur assessing grind vs capacity

rose holly
#

u should be putting in ot

#

if ur rly serious about getting an ro

#

ur competition is definitely putting in work on a weekend

#

ur just asking to be gpt'd away if ur not a top performer

tropic patrol
#

I love u

tropic patrol
#

Very much so

vast relic
lime zealot
#

my impression was that it was mostly from other ex quants

lethal apex
#

9-19 since one spot is reserved for me

rose holly
cursive granite
dire finch
#

@low vault fruity ahh nickname

fresh swallow
#

No, as a SWE I've never once worked outside of 9-6 pm

#

In 2 years at 2 different companies

dire finch
#

that's my trc goat

fresh swallow
#

To enjoy your life

tranquil wagon
#

At a certain point (probably after about 10 hours average a day) I value my time and youth more than any company could pay me to give it to them

#

Lmao so true

#

It’s also different if I’m currently working on something I’m having a lot of fun with, then I’ll work as much as I can on it

gleaming mauve
#

damn yall flaming andrew 😂

fresh swallow
#

There are no shareholders

#

Just whatever guy founded your firm

gleaming mauve
#

If you’re competent and make productive use of your work hours, there should be no reason to stay up until 3 am

#

don’t be like the guy from industries

dire finch
#

penis envy but intern salary

lethal apex
#

making less hourly than a remote IBM intern

dire finch
#

where are u incoming dm

lethal apex
#

I am a quant mf! 😄

tranquil wagon
#

Quant

mellow aurora
lucid bough
#

Ill remember this

lethal apex
#

im not an ibm hater

#

even now u could spend 20 years there on a low 6 figure salary

#

Send one email per day

zinc badger
lime zealot
#

Swe

#

yes

#

same as intern but 1 more round in the final

#

just coding

#

btw i did not interview for Ng LOL

#

I’ve heard 60-80%

zinc badger
dire finch
#

i've heard 45%

dire finch
#

hey no my market >:(

lime zealot
ocean bloom
#

has anyone used the nix package manager at a firm they worked at?

#

whats the learning curve like given its an internship with limited time

tranquil wagon
#

Also the time you’ll be working with a package manager is generally very low lol

#

Like once you have the project set up you probably won’t need to touch it much

violet patrol
#

technology role

#

but it followed a similar process

#

yeah that happened to someone I know even after going through the final round

#

might have to hit them up since my current internship starts in a little over a week

#

womp womp it’s an L company anyways

#

[redacted]

dire finch
ocean bloom
#

Yes 🥲

#

Is hrt nix as well

grim sigil
#

How many YOE do I need at meta for other firms to care

#

I want my anthropic interview

dire finch
#

better than brazil

lethal apex
#

if you are anything like Chad D Zhao you’ll get L6 in 3 years

grim sigil
#

but it's not worth it gang

#

even for pay like u just make more by hopping

#

especially because your TC takes a while to catch up to an external hire's TC

odd belfry
#

I’m about to receive an offer from Citadel NXT. If anyone is currently in the program or has inside information about it please DM me! I would greatly appreciate if you could answer some questions I have.

lucid bough
#

Watchu know abt dat

#

Ibm mcdonalds cashier

#

In theory

fresh swallow
#

They don't give a fuck

#

My internships were lockheed martin and then my first full time role was at a shitter firm and then I got laid off and I still got interviews at high tier firms

sudden aspen
#

This is fax, I’ve seen it plenty at HRT

#

Is it possible to land a quant after snow, I just don’t think these guy want me. Like I think it’s my school

fresh swallow
#

Some people are just saying shit

sudden aspen
#

How tho, like what do I do

fresh swallow
#

You need to not listen to dumbass college students in a discord giving stupid advice

sudden aspen
#

Intern, I’m there this summer but I don’t know how to approach it

fresh swallow
#

I did that and it resulted in me choosing a 160k ng role in nyc at a trading firm over amazon making 170k in austin

#

Stupidest decision I ever made

sudden aspen
#

Because I keep getting rejected I just not sure how school is that heavy

#

I already did a cpp advanced course and have some experience

#

Yes but getting an interview is hardest part tbf

#

I reached out to a student who’s going to beidgewater, kid tried to sell me lessons

#

What a joke

#

I have his LinkedIn want to see it?

#

They do fall?

#

I go to Carleton university. So not a loo kid

#

Lmfao

fresh swallow
#

Looks like he's being held at gunpoint in his profile pic

sudden aspen
#

Ya mostly loo kids, I’ve yet to see a kid from my school crack a quant position

sudden aspen
fresh swallow
#

Unlikely

#

Send me your profile

sudden aspen
#

Me?

fresh swallow
#

Y'alls resumes and linkedins in this discord are crazy lol

#

Send you a connection request

#

Don't doxx me tho

sudden aspen
#

Ya unfortunate

#

Government, Solace

#

Hopefully man, I wanna make it out. Although I’m more than grateful

#

I’ll give it a shot, I’m trying to get referrals tho

#

It tuff from kids like him

#

Might pull a cluely?

tropic patrol
#

Definitely not

sudden aspen
#

LinkedIn?

tropic patrol
#

Yeah but those “heavy cpp” roles are for the internal shit

#

lol

sudden aspen
#

So real

#

Nah you’re right I was testing you

tropic patrol
#

oh definitely not, it def looks good on res but it’s way different than the shit teams tell me they do in HFT

sudden aspen
#

But should be similar to snow difficulty so hopefully I can prepare

#

You have experience in quant I figure

tropic patrol
#

The code base is ass

#

And poorly designed and written

sudden aspen
#

Which team, shoulda told me

tropic patrol
#

shrouds?

#

Dm

sudden aspen
#

Codingjesus w questions

tropic patrol
#

I love Java

#

Java Java java

#

You are so doomed

#

Ngl know circular buffers

#

I’ve oddly had so many of those questions

#

a disproportionate amount

fresh swallow
#

New grad interviews love circular buffers

#

lmao

tropic patrol
#

Do yk why

fresh swallow
#

You have to circle the buffer man

tropic patrol
#

I’ve started insta suggesting circular buffer and interviewer is always jaw dropped shocked

#

like how tf did you know???

#
  • I’ve been asked it 8 times
fresh swallow
#

Trading firm interviews ask you allllll this low level shit just so that you can use internal libraries that have all of this coded out for you

#

I got like

#

5 intern interviews

#

in my college career

#

for all companies

#

I wouldn't know

tropic patrol
#

Bro wtf demonic trivia have u been asked

#

My trivia has never went this far in depth

#

The deepest was virtual memory

#

and it’s diff from physical memory

#

no

#

what’s lru cache

#

Oh

#

Isn’t that for optimizing DP

#

Oh I’ve done this in an interview

tranquil wagon
#

Lru cache wasn’t invented by leetcode lol

tropic patrol
#

Bash map

fresh swallow
#

no

#

how would a hash map help you with that

tropic patrol
#

Maybe double linked list too

#

What don’t we need hash map

fresh swallow
#

Oh wait I wasn't paying attention lol

#

I thought you were asking him a circular buffer question

tranquil wagon
#

Hash map is unordered

fresh swallow
#

Yeah hash map of list iterators

#

Classic

#

Python is a fake language

#

forget about python

tropic patrol
#

I’ve been asked my favorite Python version before

tranquil wagon
#

Yeah so is map in c++, it’s not a hash map though

tropic patrol
#

and it FRIED me

#

bro followed up with my fav feature and I couldn’t answer

tranquil wagon
#

For map you don’t need a hash function defined on the key type

#

Idk I doubt it if it’s ordered though

#

Oh

#

Yeah nvm then

#

Use vector just initially reserve 10 gb of memory

#

Easy

#

Game engine 👀

#

I love game engines

#

Yeah I’ve found that in game engines there’s often a ton of statically sized arrays with arbitrary caps on things like number of components or number of entities

#

Ur spacebar no instructor could beat tou

#

What is this

tropic patrol
#

Bruh

tranquil wagon
#

Oh at gt?

tropic patrol
#

U need to leave ur dorm more often

#

😭

tranquil wagon
#

using embedded = game_engine;

#

They have been the same thing all along

distant gazelle
#

anyone do headlands phone

tropic patrol
kind inlet
fresh swallow
#

Ran into some code by a guy who used to work at my company and is now a headlands partner the other day

#

Lotta profanity

kind inlet
#

apparently their culture is not relaxed

fresh swallow
#

Think along the lines of "m_stupid_fucking_exchange_symbols"

lethal apex
kind inlet
#

i've heard pay is really good tho, also I don't think they hire interns

lethal apex
kind inlet
#

oh hell nah

fresh swallow
#

Yeah their pay is as good as it has to be to get people to work that much

lethal apex
#

exactly people really think they will get paid 400k+ ng to fuck around

tranquil wagon
tranquil wagon
kind inlet
lethal apex
#

Yea that’s p well known

#

he started the trading club at berkeley and was headlands first intern

#

i don’t even think they do internships anymore

tranquil wagon
lethal apex
#

Im only kidding, im aware how big of a task it is

#

But def would like to see an mvp or sm since you’ve put in so much work

tranquil wagon
#

Yeah I’m tryna get it to be usable to make a basic game by the start of my summer internship

#

With a fully customizable render pipeline

lethal apex
#

why not offer the mvp to your school’s game jam too

#

would be pretty fun

#

Does it support 2d and 3d

tranquil wagon
tranquil wagon
#

And not rotate an orthographic camera

lethal apex
tranquil wagon
#

Ez

lethal apex
#

Zamn

tranquil wagon
#

Aura and stuff

lethal apex
#

Patient 0 of the berkeley quant epidemic

lethal apex
#

Idt u appreciate how crazy open source gets when it gains traction

tranquil wagon
#

I like being confident that i know how all the parts of it work as well

lethal apex
#

Yea yea im the same way, Im telling u that’s a bad thing tho

tranquil wagon
#

Haha yeah bad if you wanna ship

lethal apex
#

No no

#

Well yea but just in general

tranquil wagon
#

This is like just pure leisure activity though

lethal apex
#

ig, i typically don’t put time into something if it’s not for some goal

tranquil wagon
#

I guess it’s indirectly for the goal of being a better programmer

#

But the goal isn’t the engine itself

lethal apex
#

Market on me learning cpp in a month and getting headlands

tranquil wagon
lethal apex
#

morning motivation

#

lets go

rose holly
tranquil wagon
# rose holly so what is it now

It can do some rendering and asset loading and has an ecs, currently working on adding support for multiple render passes to the current swap chain image and making collisions more robust, then I’ll try and move over some of my global illumination algorithms from my old opengl engine and make them better since vulkan has extensions for hardware accelerated ray tracing

#

The big thing I’m trying to do with this engine is have a really hard line between engine and game code so it will be less intimidating for other people to use

#

Like id like people making games to be able create pretty much any graphics effect without using a single vulkan api call

rose holly
#

isnt that open source

#

or do u think thats kinda cheating lol

tranquil wagon
#

I’ve taken a bit of inspiration from the very game engine like thing I work on at my internship lol

rich briar
#

fall 2025

lethal apex
#

Max Dama was the first intern

#

I will be the last

lethal apex
#

Gonna push a memory leak into prod so bad the whole company will switch to rust

lethal apex
#

buy high sell low type investor

ocean bloom
#

anyone in aquatic qd process?

dire finch
#

orz

rose holly
#

aquatic only takes 2 interns per role

#

giving someone advice is shooting urself in the foot

#

if ur in the same process lol

ocean bloom
#

Guys I’m in not in aquatic process

#

I wanted to know who is so I can glaze

low vault
#

whats >> aquatic

#

prob like some cracked startup or like OAI/anthropic rye

#

OpenAi

#

chatGPT Capital Management LLC

#

openai's new trading division

#

they use the power of chatgpt and 42069 nvidia tesla GPUs to generate 89% APR

#

annual percentage revenue

tropic patrol
#

Bro KT

#

you ARENT slick

celest anvil
#

aquatic interviews everyone lol the interviews are the hard part esp. the 3 round onsites

#

no one passed aquatic qr last year

#

afaik (best friend at optiver who has friends at aquatic), or at most 1

low vault
#

why so much talk about aquatic capital

#

what about terrestrial

celest anvil
#

yeah for HRT

#

For dev HFT >>>> Hedge Funds

low vault
#

is aquatic an hft

celest anvil
#

It's a hedge fund

low vault
#

dang is that why godbolt left

celest anvil
#

Ex citadel

low vault
#

where he @@@ now

celest anvil
#

yeah he built the infra and it's done

low vault
#

gg

celest anvil
#

no scope left for him

low vault
#

sadge

#

so much lore

#

kinda sad that firms are so secretive but ig thats just the industry

celest anvil
#

isn't every industry has secretive part ? Apple Hardware is Secret Teams iirc

#

The tech is just a bit more open but now it's also closed e.g ClosedAI

low vault
#

true

#

I think growing up i just saw tech as being quite open

#

haven't been on this ball for too long

lethal apex
lethal apex
#

Forgot, why does flow traders get sm hate

bleak sorrel
#

has anyone here done cit fall intern

#

or incoming fall 25

lethal apex
#

Is this just cope then

#

Can’t spam games

brisk ingot
#

also they're a decently large company -- not one of the super small niche firms

#

which is why they get mentioned

hardy marsh
#

what do you guys think abt voloridge QR

lethal apex
brisk ingot
#

ill lyk in dm

lethal apex
hardy marsh
#

awesome :), do yk what comp is like? is it competitive or no

#

gotcha, their intern comp looks p low, maybe im mistaken

ancient zenith
#

Does Jane street let you apply as an intern instead of NG even as a NG? I’ve seen JS interns their grad summer

tiny sleet
#

what the fuck why is this dude back

#

i thought he got banned

ancient zenith
#

Do you think it would be worth it to apply as an intern or ng lmfao. I heard interns have a much easier pipeline

ancient zenith
#

Awesome thanks my man

low vault
#

👀

dire finch
#

can i get js if im homeless

dire finch
#

im dead br

oblique smelt
#

can someone dm me a tqd invite?

zenith panther
#

i didnt do any of their OAs 💀

rare basin
lethal apex
#

@dire finch speaking of quirky linkedins

IMG_4923.png
dire finch
#

holy orz

#

i wanna be like him

lethal apex
#

gonna make my li quirky too

#

give me a caption

rare basin
#

oh shi

zenith panther
#

every single time i see someone

#

orz

#

they have that

#

or smth like

#

"i am not currenlty interested in finance related positions"

#

oh

#

recruiter reach outs are BS anyways

#

i get like 10 a week

#

and they're all

#

"come to headlands"

#

"come to de shaw"

#

no

#

you met max dama irl ?!?

#

sigh... when was he visiting places

#

cold world for wecu

#

bcz it's annoying

#

and i dont want to work for their company

#

💀

rare basin
#

ah nvm it was a SDE Intern

zenith panther
#

the only time i got an interesting reach out

#

they ghosted me

#

it was fun until i started getting multiple a day

#

and then it's just tiring

#

"success"

#

@violet steeple do mfs here know how orz u r...

#

no

#

im graduating early

#

😛

#

🪞

#

i graduated hs w/ 60+ credits

#

so college lwky a bit light 💀

#

ppl from my hs graduating with over 100 these days

#

so only 1 off season

lethal apex
#

reverse psychology dating profile

zenith panther
#

thanks bro

lethal apex
#

did u

#

Tm

#

watchu doing

zenith panther
#

team match? not yet... sad...

#

i hope it's something performance related

lethal apex
#

Zamn, summer is coming up

zenith panther
#

but tbh... i can always just finish project early and go do smth else

lethal apex
zenith panther
#

if i dont like it

zenith panther
lethal apex
#

yea that’s always been the plan anyway

#

start working on ft work is like ez RO at most places no

zenith panther
#

orz orz orz

lethal apex
#

if they see u basically already an employee and providing value

lethal apex
#

Headhunters make bank

#

some more than the quants they recruit 😂

rugged rampart
#

please do not contact me about jobs in finance

lethal apex
#

yea but they are doing phds, so negative aura

lethal apex
#

Gatekeeping the competition prob 😂

#

i don’t take anyone’s advice unless they’re a verified 3 yoe fulltimer

zenith panther
#

certainly isn't projects

zenith panther
#

it's true

#

ngl

lethal apex
#

I can’t think of a (# of useless reachouts / # of valid reachouts) that would make it unreasonable to respond to the recruiter

#

unless u get your identity stolen it’s definitely +ev no?

zenith panther
#

that eats my time from doing productive things

gusty vector
#

yo

lethal apex
#

gurt

lethal apex
zenith panther
#

u expect recruiters to do smth

#

and it turns out

#

its just

#

PLEASE APPLY

#

PLEASSSEEEE

#

orzzz

lapis glen
#

mit dudes are supe rchill

lethal apex
#

open to work on discord pfp is diabolical

low vault
#

i dont even get what exactly they're looking at ngl

#

LMAO

spiral rivet
#

If you start on any column in the first row and move n steps where n is the number on row 1 and col n, no matter which n you start from in the first row, you always end up on the same column when you are at the last row. Does anyone know why this happens mathematically?

#

so if you started at col 1 row 1, you would go from 3 --> 4 --> 2 etc

low vault
#

wait are there actually?

#

I assumed CSCD is always too much shitposts lul

#

if i was a recruiter i would stick to more... professional channels

#

but msaybe hte guerilla recrutiing strategy is a pog

tranquil wagon
#

How do you know

zenith panther
#

THere's nothing crazy going on here.

tropic patrol
#

They definitely love me imright

spiral rivet
#

is there an interpretation for this with stationary distributions of transition matrices?

zenith panther
zenith panther
#

no you land at the same n

#

is n bounded?

spiral rivet
#

yeah sorry for an mxm matrix, the number of steps you can take is from [1,m-1]

#

and as the size of the mxm matrix increases, the probability that it converges to one column approaches 1

#

and thats basically what im trying to prove

dire finch
#

@spiral rivet your question is really poorly framed

#

i cannot lie

low vault
#

the question makes no sense 😭

spiral rivet
#

okay wait lemme try again

#

you have a 10x10 matrix with random entries 1-9

#

like this for example

#

you start at any entry in row 1. At the entry, you move forward the number entries that you are on. For example if you start at the 9 on the first row, your next step would be at the 3 at the second row, and then the 9 on the second row all the way until you get to the last row and you can't go anymore entries

dire finch
#

is this a random matrix orrrr

spiral rivet
#

and the observation was that no matter which entry on the first row you started at, by following this hopping rule you always end up on the same entry in the last row

#

yeah this is randomly generated example

#

so for this matrix, no matter where you start you end up stopping at the 7 on row 10, col 10

#

and so the question was why does this happen and is there any way to explain it in the context of markov chains

dire finch
#

you don't have a good generalized question to even ask though

#

are you asking

#

given a square real matrix M*M randomized with entries [1, M - 1], prove that hopping forward lands you somewhere in the last row?

#

what is the statement to be proven lol

#

or maybe that hopping forward lands you at exactly (last, last)?

#

btw the matrix is largely irrelevant you can vectorize this thing with zero consequence

spiral rivet
dire finch
#

is that even true all of the time...?

spiral rivet
#

so for another randomized matrix, you might end up at col 8 no matter where you start

#

i think my prof said for a 10x10 matrix this is true 99.97% of the time or something like that?

#

and then as the size of the matrix increases, it gets closer and closer to 1

#

as long as the entries are "random"

dire finch
#

the 99.97 seems like bullshit

#

it doesn't hold for 100*100 either

spiral rivet
# dire finch

for this i'm assuming the column that it ends up on is highest mod 10? so for trial 2, it would end up on row 10 col 5 86% of the time?

dire finch
#

the distribution is very skewed