Aiming for FAANG or Quant Firm for S26 internship

[plucky plover]

Is it possible to get interviews at quant firms with my current experience

[ebon wolf]

Your classes look a little vanilla

if you're thinking about firms like JS/HRT/Citadel, maybe SWE, very low chance at buyside imo

JS/HRT/Citadel are looking for IMO medalist level STEM talent, and your resume doesn't really signal that

[plucky plover]

Okay I see what would u say are some classes that are important to list?

[plucky plover]

I was thinking of swe at quant firm, def not quant researcher position

[ebon wolf]

just more advanced classics and also maybe just remove the biz administration classes if youre going for purely technical roles

if u want to list your biz double major just do "cs and biz" in the first section of ur coursework

im not super familiar with how competitive quant swe roles are tbh

ask AI I guess. I'm only familiar with quant research/trading

[plucky plover]

Oh okay thanks, my program is a 5 year program and most of the advanced level classes are in year 4 and 5 so I just haven't taken those yet

[golden sandal]

Prob not tbh

Faang u could

[ebon wolf]

their pipeline for buyside positions (research and trading) are IMO medalists and t1 PhDs

there are some exceptions, sure, but idk about interviewing everyone

lol no

by not mch on resume if u mean math/cs from a top 10 uni sure

well at berkeley js hrt citadel were for 4.0 phd tracks and former USAMO IMO

maybe u went to a better school

[plucky plover]

Hmm I see is that for swe quant? If so do you think it’s possible once I land FAANG?

[gray halo]

I think this is exaggerated

There's a few people from my school interning there at Cit as traders and even one research person without anything super insane like that

[ebon wolf]

fs

[golden sandal]

Probably. Still difficult tho

I think if your school isn’t a target it’s hard

[dawn frigate]

seems like youd pass quant screens for qd. between shopify and ibm + your experience section seems p stacked

[plucky plover]

Gotcha thanks for the insight

[spring harbor]

not 100% time, you can get interviews with them depending on what the project/extracurriculars are

[spring harbor]

yeah but you are going to have learn finance on the job

and you're going to need to get comfortable with it

I had a friend who left GS to go to a less finance focused firm. He does pure SWE work in java.

and he didn't feel like GS was the right place for him.

so like, if you want SWE, just understand SWE at finance firm is not SWE at FAANG (or SWE at startup for that matter)

its different flavors of SWE

[plucky plover]

Yeah that’s completely fine I’m doing a double degree in computer science and business administration lol

I’ve already taken several finance courses

[dawn frigate]

just reazlied this. honestly condense them into a single degree listing as a double major i think

[plucky plover]

Okay yeah will do 👍

Ty