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buoyant cloak Sep 30, 2025, 7:55 PM

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median bone Sep 30, 2025, 8:06 PM

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cit

cyan atlas Sep 30, 2025, 8:59 PM

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what is your past experience and what do you want to do. This is such a useless poll without this info

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🤣

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what

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legit how

cyan atlas Sep 30, 2025, 9:40 PM

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this is an insane thing to say

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absolutely not true lol

somber bough Sep 30, 2025, 9:41 PM

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cyan atlas this is an insane thing to say

it’s not

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i was at citadel this summer

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it’s like 50-55 hours a week on most desks

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some even less

cyan atlas Sep 30, 2025, 9:41 PM

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and I know many people who worked 60-70 hours too

somber bough Sep 30, 2025, 9:41 PM

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some are a bit more back office but rare

somber bough Sep 30, 2025, 9:41 PM

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cyan atlas and I know many people who worked 60-70 hours too

some back office orgs are a little grindier

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also this is internship

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like yes interns work as late as they want

cyan atlas Sep 30, 2025, 9:42 PM

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"prestige" not even entirely true

somber bough Sep 30, 2025, 9:42 PM

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he can ask cit for fall tho

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lmao

cyan atlas Sep 30, 2025, 9:42 PM

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sure I guess

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but that's a different point you can ask Databricks for offseason too

somber bough Sep 30, 2025, 9:43 PM

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cyan atlas but that's a different point you can ask Databricks for offseason too

loo only

cyan atlas Sep 30, 2025, 9:43 PM

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how are you confidently saying this. By what metric

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They hire less but Citadel is still not a tech company.

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I don't think you can confidently say for tech companies in the bay they'd all prefer Citadel over DB

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I mean I've talked to recruiters who said the opposite

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that's why

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what's your signal

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I have

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lol

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but that's because those people who got DB probably didn't get Citadel

sharp heron Sep 30, 2025, 9:49 PM

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Idk if its as clear cut like that, db definitely doesn’t have as bad wlb as citadel

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Prestige wise they are probably about the same, just because you see more people joining doesn’t suddenly make it less prestigious

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If you want to work in quant space / have higher starting tc / live in nyc then go citadel

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Else go db

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Dbs advantages are probably more interesting engineering work and ipo potential

cyan atlas Sep 30, 2025, 9:54 PM

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even if it IPOs how mcuh more is your stock going to be worth

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I agree maybe 2-3 years ago 100% DB but

sharp heron Sep 30, 2025, 9:58 PM

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Thats true, its not an insane upside but still something to consider

half lantern Oct 1, 2025, 12:53 AM

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citadel if u don’t want a return offer

mystic delta Oct 1, 2025, 3:35 PM

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how lol

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if ai goes bust db is just cooked

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their product isnt even fundamentally ai related they just leaned so heavily into it

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the moment one of openai oracle or nvidia cant shell out anymore 100b its cooked

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its just a snake eating its tail

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would go cit assuming u already have a meta/google type company on ur resume

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1 t1 tech + 1 quant ull be chill

mystic delta Oct 1, 2025, 4:15 PM

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they can just use big query

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or whatever amazons equivalent is

sharp heron Oct 1, 2025, 4:59 PM

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Lmao if you think aws emr is as good as db then you haven’t done your research

buoyant cloak Oct 3, 2025, 7:55 PM

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buoyant cloak

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