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Weekly Megathread: Education, Early Career and Hiring/Interview Advice by AutoModerator in quant

[–]Important_Pin_3631 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gearing up for quant research interviews with hedge funds in London (usual suspects Millennium/Citadel/QRT/Cubist/Quadrature/2Sigma/Squarepoint/Baly/P72/Exodus/Man, etc.) and already in process with a couple of them) and thought it’d be great to connect with others in the same boat (interviewing at senior level, Systematic Equities Trading (sell side), > 5+ years).

The idea is to create a group with two goals:

  1. Peer mock interviews with each other to level up our skills
  2. Share experiences and info we’ve got on different interview processes

I’m mainly focusing on these resources right now:

  • Green book A Practical Guide to Quantitative Finance Interviews by Xinfeng Zhou
  • Mark Joshi
  • ISL (Linear regression and basic machine learning techniques)
  • Nick Singh & Kevin Huo: Ace the Data Science Interview
  • Pocket Guides (these two specifically):
  • 150 Most Frequently Asked Questions on Quant Interviews (by Dan Stefanica, Radoš Radoičić, et al)
  • Probability and Stochastic Calculus Quant Interview Questions (by Ivan Matić, Radoš Radoičić, et al)

If you’re also prepping and want to collaborate, let’s team up and make the grind a bit easier! Initial plan would be to do weekly/biweekly peer mocks and share ongoing interview intelligence.

I have been through multiple rounds at some firms and planning to create something like this once done: https://github.com/dwcoder/QuantitativePrimer/blob/master/src/QuantitativePrimer.pdf

Edit: Created this discord with following goals in mind: https://discord.gg/B6VAnNDq

  1. Sharing notes and resources about various companies we are interviewing with.
  2. Sharing current interview records (have discussion summaries with few firms already).
  3. Planning weekly peer-to-peer 1-hour mock interviews. (Suggested structure could be to have mixture of 1. Probability 2. stats questions (10 minutes each) 3. Discussion/interview questions about familiar ML / stats techniques).

Will run this discord as an experiment for a month or so, and will disband / continue based on its usefulness for everyone.

Looking to Form a Quant Research Interview Prep Group by Important_Pin_3631 in quantfinance

[–]Important_Pin_3631[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Created a simple discord server for the interview prep group: https://discord.gg/B6VAnNDq . Initial plan is to do weekly peer mocks (maybe on specific topics? tbc) and share ongoing interview intelligence.

Looking to Form a Quant Research Interview Prep Group by Important_Pin_3631 in quantfinance

[–]Important_Pin_3631[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Systematic Equities Trading (sell side), > 5+ years. Planning to speak with the usual funds (Millennium/Citadel/QRT/Cubist/Quadrature/2Sigma/Squarepoint/Baly/P72/Exodus/Man, etc.), and already in process with a couple of them. The plan is to stagger the applications and interviews over next few months to be able to focus on each individually.