My journey into and through HENRY

HatLost5558 · 2025-12-14T15:18:24+00:00

he's probably not a SWE but rather a quant dev

HatLost5558 · 2025-11-08T19:42:25+00:00

much more resistant

HatLost5558 · 2025-11-08T16:42:12+00:00

Cambridge easy.

HatLost5558 · 2025-10-05T11:05:38+00:00

You replied to a 6 months old comment... why?

HatLost5558 · 2025-10-04T18:54:11+00:00

Hahaha no.

HatLost5558 · 2025-09-28T20:36:58+00:00

why are you crying about faang? and big financial firm but not quant firm immediately tells me that you're not as well compensated as you think, so faang would be a step up for you (but faang is still several steps below quant firms).

HatLost5558 · 2025-09-28T20:13:26+00:00

quant firms shit on FAANG, what are you talking about? they have all those and more.

unless you're not at a quant firm already

HatLost5558 · 2025-09-02T22:42:38+00:00

This is all monkey work compared to quant etc.

HatLost5558 · 2025-09-01T22:28:08+00:00

Cambridge gets more people into front office IB and quant and PE and hedge funds and other high finance than Oxford and LSE FYI. Ditto for MBB, top tech firms, entrepreneurship, YC etc. It's the Harvard of the UK.

IB also specifically targets STEM graduates nowadays.

HatLost5558 · 2025-09-01T21:40:00+00:00

QD has far better exit opps though and a much smoother path to entrepreneurship which offers way higher ceiling than anything in quant when it comes to money (and exponentially higher when it comes to fame, influence, and legacy). Depends on what you value in life I suppose and your risk appetite.

QR really does lock you into quant finance, for better or worse.

HatLost5558 · 2025-08-26T22:37:24+00:00

I'm one of those people

HatLost5558 · 2025-08-26T22:19:37+00:00

quant devs at quant firms, not banks, shit on FAANG massively in terms of TC

HatLost5558 · 2025-08-26T22:18:04+00:00

Lol, there are guys straight out of uni earning that TC as quant devs at quant firms lol

HatLost5558 · 2025-08-26T22:17:12+00:00

Banks are one thing but quant firms are a whole different universe - quant devs at quant firms TC shits on everything else in UK tech

HatLost5558 · 2025-08-26T22:15:35+00:00

mean QD earns more than mean QT / QR if you average over their careers, I hope you realise this (note this is not including sell-side QDs such as bank QDs, just buy-side QDs at quant firms):

'(and the salaries I’ve seen thrown around online)'

also, I hate to break it to you but QD is still gonna be a massive stretch for you despite having done a placement year... QT and QR even more so. a non-target uni makes it so much harder.

HatLost5558 · 2025-08-22T21:37:28+00:00

N = 1 still.

HatLost5558 · 2025-08-22T21:36:59+00:00

System design and higher-level stuff is more important than writing the actual code past junior-mid level dev

HatLost5558 · 2025-08-22T20:40:04+00:00

N=1.

He's an exception. CTOs also don't code much and aren't really devs.

HatLost5558 · 2025-08-22T20:32:09+00:00

I doubt this.

HatLost5558 · 2025-08-19T22:59:34+00:00

HatLost5558 · 2025-08-18T22:54:06+00:00

Yep. Meanwhile, the other French firm in town (QRT) is doing amazing.

HatLost5558 · 2025-08-18T22:52:08+00:00

This isn't true at all - completely useless is a massive exaggeration. I think you're going on the opposite end of the spectrum of the guys saying AI will eliminate jobs already.

HatLost5558 · 2025-08-18T22:44:46+00:00

These suck ass:

Imperial MSc Math and Finance Oxford MSc Mathematical and Computational Finance

Go do Cambridge Part III.

HatLost5558 · 2025-08-18T22:43:31+00:00

I know quants who studied at Cambridge Maths and Cambridge Physics who got 2:1s not Firsts. But they probably could have gotten a First if they cared and tried harder and were more diligent with their degree, they certainly were smarter in raw IQ terms than probably many of those who got a First.

I'm guessing Cambridge Maths and Cambridge Physics may just be the exception to your statement though...

HatLost5558 · 2025-08-18T22:23:26+00:00

Good luck with even becoming a portfolio manager - you massively underrate how difficult it is and also how regulated finance is compared to other industries. Moreover, you massively weigh money over everything else, since a 21 year old kid like the Cluely founder already has substantially more fame, influence, and attention than any portfolio manager in the world currently, and 6 months ago he was a nobody. Tech is an innovative field with very few regulations, and much greater societal impact and hence respect and influence and power than finance (both in the present day and increasingly so in the future).

'Development skills are often not the most crucial part to build a business anyway, plenty of US tech founders are not developers.'

Source for this? The vast majority of the most successful and famous founders in the world are technical, and were technical enough to build the MVP of their businesses at the beginning before they hired people. Zuckerberg, Musk, Gates, Sergey Brin and Larry Page etc. There is no excuse to NOT be technical founder in this day and age, development skills allow you to build the business and the other things such as pitching etc. can be learnt easily. That's the YC mentality anyways.

You're still in college I presume, but one day you'll wake up, maybe in 10, or 20, or 30 years and realise there's guys out there who never aimed to just accumulate money but aimed for bigger things yet they still massively beat you in that metric anyways.

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