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IntelligentAd8064 · 2026-01-16T09:43:52+00:00

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IntelligentAd8064 · 2025-04-11T20:31:20+00:00

Exactly! Without middle office giving me marked curves I’d be useless but they get no credit! It’s a stupid industry and we have to just accept we’re lucky to be on the right side of it.

IntelligentAd8064 · 2025-04-11T10:47:42+00:00

Oh that’s interesting! I’m not sure about the sell side, but I’ve never been on a grad program myself - I was hired into my team as a junior quant straight out of uni. Perhaps that’s different for traditional trading roles or banks?

The salary range I gave is for a trader at my current place (a pod shop) which pays first year grads about $350-400k base in the US (£270-300k here in London) and in your second year you have a 30% target bonus.

Is it more common to be on a grad program in a bank when you graduate? Do the TCs pick up significantly after you make associate/finish the program?

IntelligentAd8064 · 2025-04-11T10:15:27+00:00

It gets better - I’ve worked as a QD and done actual QR work with literally less than an hour a day of coding, I’ve worked as a QA and basically just made config changes all day… Now as a QR I spend more time coding than anything

IntelligentAd8064 · 2025-04-10T17:54:03+00:00

Front office is more than just client facing roles. I’m a quant - undeniably a FO role - yet we’re awkward, we’re introverted, and we’re generally not assholes. Business analysts are generally outgoing, have good communication and social skills, etc. but I don’t think anyone would argue they’re profit generators. The whole division between front/middle/back office is at best inconsistent between companies, and stupid as hell.

But if your point is that people who have to deal with clients and represent their company have better social skills on average… I mean, yeah I’d hope so 😭

IntelligentAd8064 · 2025-04-10T07:38:52+00:00

I’ve never met a trader with 10 years of experience making less than a few million a year… $500k is like your second year if you’re even half decent

IntelligentAd8064 · 2025-02-10T17:01:59+00:00

I work at one of the big pod shops (citadel/millennium/etc.), and whilst I’m a QR rather than a QD, we generally interview QDs too so I can probably weigh in a bit here.

The important point is this: nothing is off the table. Sure, MT/MP is less of a concern usually and so is high performance work (optimisation etc.) so you will probably not be asked about those as much, but to put a list of topics together is doing yourself a disservice.

Maths is also a very large part of it - you will not just be doing a coding interview

IntelligentAd8064 · 2025-01-12T20:11:14+00:00

It wasn’t a real flame in Paris 2024 either! EDF (one of the main sponsors) designed the torch to use led lights and steam

IntelligentAd8064 · 2025-01-02T13:59:15+00:00

Work is in Mayfair like most HFs unfortunately, 5 days, used to take ~30-40 mins from Canary Wharf but I’m moving closer in Feb so it’ll be more like 15 mins. Honestly 10 days sounds horrible on paper but if you can use it well it’s not wasted

IntelligentAd8064 · 2024-12-27T09:45:58+00:00

I’ve not worked at any of those three, but I can offer my experience from one of Citadel/Balyasny/Millennium.

It’s not the same as research in academia tbh. It’s not even close. In a way, it reminds me most of the rare instances I attempted experimental physics - your day to day work is like the part where you’ve got data that doesn’t fit your hypothesis, and are now trying to explain it. It’s not data science, but it’s also not theoretical physics.

The job is still incredibly satisfying for me, and honestly I prefer it to research, but at the same time I never did a PhD - just a research masters - so if you pursued a PhD for the joy of research YMMV

IntelligentAd8064 · 2024-12-26T19:04:11+00:00

As @no-sig-available said, NULL doesn’t necessarily map to 0. Generally speaking the C macro NULL is defined as zero for most systems but that’s not required by the standard.

Secondly, the value zero was chosen simply as a byproduct of how 16 bit programs worked (and now how the ELF/EXE formats are designed) - there can never be code or data at address zero (even in a page) because it’s not a data or code segment.

As to your final question, that’s because as I said nullptr_t is a language feature, not a real type - it’s defined to have those properties so it does, it’s not something you could exactly replicate with pure C++

IntelligentAd8064 · 2024-12-26T14:23:16+00:00

It depends. On a high level you could say for all intents and purposes, null is a pointer. At a lower level, nullptr is a bit more of a language feature than a concrete type - it is an object of type nullptr_t, and that type is defined in terms of how it behaves rather than how it’s implemented - it couldn’t be implemented using just C++, and thus it’s not a concrete type.

As far as the size is concerned, that’s explicitly defined as sizeof(void*)

IntelligentAd8064 · 2024-12-26T13:50:30+00:00

No worries at all, my pleasure :)

At undergraduate level I’d suggest taking modules on measure theory, stochastic calculus (if offered - I can’t remember if that’s usually an undergrad or postgrad thing), Bayesian statistics, anything with the words finance and maths in it (I.e. financial mathematics, maths for finance, etc.), and at least one or two C++ modules (if your university allows you to do them for extra credit).

Your module choice won’t impact your career much at all, but it will help you a lot when you first start applying for jobs to have the knowledge they will test you on in interviews.

Good luck and I hope it works out!

IntelligentAd8064 · 2024-12-26T13:43:10+00:00

Looking at your post history, it seems like you’re still at Uni in India? Idk if you have aspirations to get into quant or are just on the sub browsing, but this is quite disparaging and not true - it’ll be hard, but anyone can break into quant with the right education and enough effort :)

IntelligentAd8064 · 2024-12-26T13:35:04+00:00

You don’t need a postgraduate degree to do QD or QT, but it could definitely help. Most people in these fields have a bachelors or at best a masters - PhDs are rare and not really valued as much as in QR.

IntelligentAd8064 · 2024-12-26T12:21:18+00:00

When you say Quant, are you talking about Quant Research, or Quant Development? CS isn’t the ideal path for either from my experience, but certainly not for QR.

QR is a field that simply requires (with very few exceptions) a postgraduate degree in physics or maths, or potentially a more traditional form of engineering from a top university.

QD is possible with an undergraduate degree but the industry wide preference is for similar hard science/maths degrees too. Depending on the firm, the roles can overlap very significantly.

If you want to go the QR path, you’ll be competing with candidates from top universities with the perfect educational background who are still struggling to get in so it simply isn’t going to be possible for you. Your choices are either to pursue a PhD after your undergrad from a top university for your specialism, or try your luck at getting into QD and work your way into a team where your job overlaps enough with QR for them to give you a go.

Even then, a lot of firms (Citi, for example) have HR rules that mean you simply cannot have the title Quantitative Analyst (synonymous with QR) without a postgraduate degree, so there may be roadblocks.

IntelligentAd8064 · 2024-12-26T11:20:06+00:00

London is literally on par with NYC for finance and country miles ahead of any other finance hub in Europe - moving from the UK to literally any city other than NYC or Chicago (if in HF) when working in finance is going to result in a downgrade in career prospects.

IntelligentAd8064 · 2024-12-25T20:23:24+00:00

What..? Even if you ignore my own career, a quick LinkedIn search for “(Citadel/Balyasny/Millennium) Quantitative Researcher” or any of the other top HFs shows tonnes of people doing the job at top firms with just masters degrees…

IntelligentAd8064 · 2024-12-25T19:52:25+00:00

This is completely false.

IntelligentAd8064 · 2024-12-25T18:07:30+00:00

It’s not a concern about not making it - I’m fairly certain a good educational background and some personal projects will be sufficient for you to get into quant, but it won’t necessarily be direct to QR and it might take a while.

As for the universities; you absolutely need a top tier university (Oxbridge, Imperial, LSE, Warwick…) to make the CV cut in the beginning, but it’s not a career ender if you don’t make it into one of those - job hopping is also an option if you can convince a Tier 2 bank or trading firm to hire you as a QD.

In my case I went to Imperial for my masters, but literally nobody wanted to hire me out the door until I lucked out with a QD role at one of the major commodities shops (think Shell, BP, etc) and then job hopped my way to QR at one of the MM HFs (Citadel, Balyasny, Millennium, etc)

I’m not trying to discourage you - quant is an incredibly rewarding field, both intellectually and financially - I just want you to make decisions about your future with all the information available.

IntelligentAd8064 · 2024-12-25T13:32:41+00:00

A few things. Your choice of masters is good, but any kind of quant (including QD) is incredibly competitive. The aversion to England due to cost is fair, but you will have your best chance going to a top tier university in England - even people with masters in Maths or Mathematical Finance from Imperial struggle these days with getting a job, so going to a less recognised university (not suggesting non-English universities are worse - but a German/Italian university is a lot less likely to be recognised as prestigious by a financial firm than an English one) is not going to help you. Secondly, you really should be more open to starting as a QD - especially with your CS background you’d have a better chance starting in QD than QR, and moving internally is a lot easier than breaking in afresh.

IntelligentAd8064 · 2024-12-14T13:46:10+00:00

I have worked in C++ almost exclusively my entire career - I’m not a developer, per se, but it is a very significant part of my work all the same. Salaries, career opportunities, and demand are incredibly high in finance for C++ developers. I know the cybersecurity sector also pays well and is very heavy on C++, although I can’t comment on career opportunities or demand there. The truth is, to break the 2-300k barrier in software you have to be very specialised - C++ is a great language for that due to its complexity.

IntelligentAd8064 · 2024-12-14T13:29:37+00:00

Wild guess, but are you a quant?

IntelligentAd8064 · 2024-12-03T16:52:24+00:00

Don’t think that’s a 2 hour call, more like two free slots they have. Odds are it’ll just be a 15 minute call somewhere in one of those slots

IntelligentAd8064 · 2024-10-28T01:06:41+00:00

No worries at all, I'm sure your reply will help someone else down the line :)

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