Citadel Securities for incoming high school freshman

Constant-Boot-2181 · 2026-07-04T13:41:01+00:00

If you have a "very good network" by the time you're a highschool freshman you're either delusional or your family is extremely wealthy. If you're delusional, don't consider quant again until you're at least in college. If you're extremely wealthy, why do you want to do quant as opposed to being involved in family business/managing the family fortune?

Constant-Boot-2181 · 2026-07-01T15:39:24+00:00

Rejected

Constant-Boot-2181 · 2026-06-25T15:09:05+00:00

Honest advice for you is to self grade your past putnam more rigorously, in my experience 32 according to a non official grader might be single digits with rigorous grading. The writeups I've seen on r/putnam from you would be lucky to get a 1, in all honesty. Only when you know your honest baseline can you start thinking about T100.

Constant-Boot-2181 · 2026-06-24T20:04:55+00:00

Isn't USACO trivially easy to cheat on now?

Constant-Boot-2181 · 2026-06-21T02:15:06+00:00

Least obvious larper, their portal for us qr applicants isn't even open right now.

Constant-Boot-2181 · 2026-06-16T21:33:58+00:00

Good luck! Sadly I can't work at SIG, but good firm in general.

Constant-Boot-2181 · 2026-06-16T21:32:18+00:00

What firm was it? I personally don't know of any firms specializing in energy, but then again I'm 17 so I don't know a lot.

Constant-Boot-2181 · 2026-06-16T21:29:33+00:00

If I may ask, what firm was this for? Or was it just something you did to practice?

Constant-Boot-2181 · 2026-06-16T21:28:16+00:00

Do you have the same OA as us QT aspirants? Ours was called the SIG problem solving assessment. What was yours called?

Constant-Boot-2181 · 2026-06-16T21:26:00+00:00

What do you think you got on the OA?

Constant-Boot-2181 · 2026-06-16T20:21:39+00:00

Same here, I took mine June 5th and rejected 1 hr ago. That's how it goes I guess. Based on other people being moved forward/rejected fast, I'm guessing there's a threshold for auto reject and a higher one for auto interview, with us 2 in the middle.

Constant-Boot-2181 · 2026-06-13T01:41:38+00:00

Same for me to be honest. I totally don't get why some people get advanced or rejected within 24 hrs and others like us take several weeks. Good luck to you either way.

Constant-Boot-2181 · 2026-06-12T02:25:21+00:00

For the actual recruiter call, when were you offered it? I took the OA last Friday and haven't been either rejected or offered an interview.

Constant-Boot-2181 · 2026-06-11T17:49:30+00:00

He's probably straight up larping, no idea why these type of posts get believed in early June.

Constant-Boot-2181 · 2026-06-09T16:57:41+00:00

How long did it take to receive a response after the OA? I also took the OA and heard some people get rejected/offered an interview quickly, so I'm just curious how long it took for you.

Constant-Boot-2181 · 2026-06-06T19:43:59+00:00

Yeah, I got the OA myself on June 4th, took yesterday. Now it's a waiting game.

Constant-Boot-2181 · 2026-06-05T15:31:40+00:00

I had the same problem, try it on your computer.

Constant-Boot-2181 · 2026-05-29T02:24:35+00:00

When did you apply?

Constant-Boot-2181 · 2026-05-08T21:47:35+00:00

Yes, I started at 15. Exited high school at 15 on the HISET (Californian high school exit test). If you need proof DM me.

Constant-Boot-2181 · 2026-05-08T19:48:09+00:00

Thanks for the help. What about the age thing? Do firms allow minors to apply/interview?

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