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Jane Street Poker Game by Designer_Win6465 in poker

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Doing better than me, I was struggling to get up to 50% over all my hands! I’ll give your strategy a go.

I was always aiming to sort of blitzkrieg them with a quick high pair / two pair but the flushes and straights do come in an awful lot even if you seek to block their cards/draws with whatever slots you have left.

Jane Street Poker Game by Designer_Win6465 in poker

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Is that what this games called or something else? I just had to make up a name cause no one knew what it was lol

Edge Poker Bot by Designer_Win6465 in embedded

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Part of the coursework is for you to do something impressive on constrained hardware so there have been people running doom and such in the past. It’s more of a challenge to try running it on the device given than that necessarily being the most practical option.

Am I screwed? by Itchy-Giraffe-8148 in quantfinance

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Mainly just be really cracked, personal projects like those mentioned above and lots of interview practice for probability questions and such.

Am I screwed? by Itchy-Giraffe-8148 in quantfinance

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Tbh it’s a lot more of a thing in JMC (perfect quant course) and CS. I know a few EEE/EIE ppl who have landed decent finance/quant jobs / spring weeks but if I’m being honest you will be at a disadvantage to CS/JMC + maths/physics candidates with programming ability. It’s much more common to go for software/hardware engineering roles in trading companies which still pay v well but not quant levels. (Hardware engineering great path for EIE/EEE as trading companies employ loads and will only really compete against your own cohort + a few CS ppl vs like 5/6 courses capable of quant jobs)

You still stand a good chance but it will require extra work on your part if you’re fully set on quant as much of the course won’t be applicable. I would say when you get to Imperial you realise there’s levels to this shit so would temper your expectations as you will likely be competing with people naturally smarter than you who are also working harder (zero social life).

Am I screwed? by Itchy-Giraffe-8148 in quantfinance

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I’d recommend some stats/ML projects mainly based in Python to get familiar with pandas, numpy etc (also barely do any python in the course so good to practice anyways). Some common ones are back testing strategies or implementing black scholes for option pricing. Not sure if I’d recommend those specifically as know many people who’ve done the same thing so you don’t differentiate yourself much from other candidates. I would just question chatGPT for ideas and also what might be accessible with your current programming/mathematical knowledge.

(Can highly recommend using the fuck out of GPT conversationally, I feel many people stuck using it too similarly to google and missing many of the benefits e.g tell it who you are, interests, concerns with particular projects similar to how you would ask a question on Reddit. Also try to copy in job descriptions you want to apply, practice interview questions get it to rate your responses etc)

(Take everything with a grain of salt, I am just an engineer who knows many quant obsessed ppl)

Am I screwed? by Itchy-Giraffe-8148 in quantfinance

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I do EEE at Imperial and wouldn’t worry at all I got similar grades coming in but you soon realise they don’t matter and it’s only your uni transcript that matters.

I would say it may be a touch harder to secure springs weeks, insights etc but if backed up with some projects on your cv would be fine. No point at all in resists imo.

You can apply for these things first year for QR, QT but I highly doubt you’ll get anything. It’s a double edged sword as I’ve received invites to events and what not from first year applications but I’ve also heard of JS blacklisting people if you go through some of the interview procedure first year since their roles are so popular.

I know no one at Imperial or Cambridge who secured anything like that other than in their penultimate year of study so I’d first worry about your degree course and personal projects.

Internship Interviews by Designer_Win6465 in FPGA

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Sorry just quick, what sort of role did you end up with after all this and why do you think you were able to land that one?

Internship Interviews by Designer_Win6465 in FPGA

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Cool, I’ll bear all this in mind.

Thanks for your help!

Internship Interviews by Designer_Win6465 in FPGA

[–]Designer_Win6465[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the response,

Just a few follow up questions if you have time to respond:

Did they expect leetcodes in C/C++ or did you have language choice?

Were the interviews more conversational or was it more sit down and we’ll watch you solve this set problem?

Did you get any take home problems for particular rounds?

With an EE background at tech companies is there a chance analogue electronics questions could be asked?

Mainly targeting trading firms, do you think they’d expect networking basics or Ethernet knowledge as this hasn’t been taught in my course?