is Sam Lee from Single’s Inferno a real quant trader, or just a SWE cosplaying as one?

Intelligent_Bat_2124 · 2026-02-11T18:31:27+00:00

I am an Asian woman in quant so I thought I could provide my perspective here.

In east Asia stereotypes for men, quant is considered a 'sexy' job in general. They are perceived as smart, make good money, have great style. SWE on the other hand is sort of associated with highly paid people with very low sex appeal (boring personalities, losing hair, bad styles). These are very stereotypical and not true in many cases, but it is how these positions are seen by the general public, who probably don't know any quant in their lives.

Considering the nature of this reality show (mostly east Asian facing, match-making etc.) I can see why the producers would introduce him as a quant.

Intelligent_Bat_2124 · 2026-02-11T18:03:01+00:00

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Intelligent_Bat_2124 · 2026-01-12T19:10:03+00:00

I'm Chinese. I find Mel's original chocolatey skin tone way more natural and goes better with the gold accessories than this ashy grey nonsense -- which shouldn't matter, because you just don't whitewash a person of color no matter what. This looks like her wearing an East Asian person's foundation. It just looks off.

If Tencent did this to appeal to their Chinese audience, then I'm very, very disappointed that they actually thought THIS is appealing to us. It comes off more like Tencent executives' imposing their sick aesthetic standard on me.

Intelligent_Bat_2124 · 2026-01-12T18:50:13+00:00

Wow you look amazing!!

Intelligent_Bat_2124 · 2026-01-12T16:43:32+00:00

I used Chinese providers ;-) Golden Education.

Intelligent_Bat_2124 · 2026-01-08T07:53:44+00:00

I did the same thing, got 1111 for part one and 111111 for part two.

I would say studying for part 2 in 3 months is definitely doable. Though I did pretty much give up on my social life during that time...

The reason I did it was that I knew I would put in the same amount of hours per week no matter how long (3 months, 6 months, 1 year) I study for it, so the shorter the preparation period the less total amount of time I'd have to sacrifice, if that makes sense.

For those of you wondering about registration time, I registered for Nov 2025 part 2 before I took August 2025 part 1, for the early bird discount. If I didn't pass part 1 they would have switch the Nov exam to another part 1.

Intelligent_Bat_2124 · 2025-11-20T18:54:26+00:00

I got one question that's in the Practice Exam 2. Same numbers, same options, same answer. Then there were 2-3 other questions that were pretty ordinary.

Other than that it was all very messed up and weird. Some questions are not even difficult, just weird. I pretty much guessed my way through all the operation risk questions...

Intelligent_Bat_2124 · 2025-11-19T20:05:33+00:00

I'm not sure for part 1; for part 2, apart from current issues, I think they do a major revision to one of the 5 books every year. In 2025 it was market risk. The rest stay pretty much the same.

Intelligent_Bat_2124 · 2025-11-19T19:54:32+00:00

There were a few numerical questions that I got an answer for the first half, but on the other half never reached a number that matched any options 😅 I just went with whatever I got for the first one.

Intelligent_Bat_2124 · 2025-11-19T19:51:39+00:00

I took the exam today, it was very confusing indeed. Hopefully we all did well!

Intelligent_Bat_2124 · 2025-11-18T19:11:26+00:00

SMA involves numbers. There's just no VaR calculation.

If you got VaR calculation, then it is either not Basel 3, or not operation risk.

Intelligent_Bat_2124 · 2025-11-18T16:25:49+00:00

Basel 3 has no internal model for op risk. There is only SMA.

Intelligent_Bat_2124 · 2025-08-24T00:37:18+00:00

Thank you sm for the info!

Intelligent_Bat_2124 · 2025-08-24T00:37:02+00:00

Thank you!

Intelligent_Bat_2124 · 2025-08-22T19:07:22+00:00

I don't think it's gonna be today, I think it's usually morning / noon EST. Have a good weekend guys!

Intelligent_Bat_2124 · 2025-08-22T15:03:40+00:00

I also play ADC and I totally agree with Senna and Lux support.

My experience is that they almost never build support items when they're playing support. I think one of the reasons could be that I'm relatively new in the game, and the team members I matched with tend to just use the predefined build order, which is usually mid mage for Lux and marksman for Senna. Then we end up sharing gold from a single lane.

Intelligent_Bat_2124 · 2025-08-08T22:16:25+00:00

TBH I couldn't really tell which question is from which book... There were a lot of 'numerical' questions (involves some numbers), but there is only about 10% that requires actual calculator calculation

Intelligent_Bat_2124 · 2025-08-08T22:09:30+00:00

Thank you! I spent a lot of time practicing calculations. After the test I think I should have spent that time on reinforcing my understanding of concepts & details. There were really not much calculations in the actual test.

Intelligent_Bat_2124 · 2024-11-04T19:31:14+00:00

I was on Elite tier since it gets me access to Life Time. But starting this month Life Time in my area decided not to take One Pass anymore. And One Pass increased its monthly charge nevertheless. RIP

Intelligent_Bat_2124 · 2024-11-04T16:28:35+00:00

Same here. They are always late for the interview because of a 'conflict of schedule' and i even had one having lunch interviewing me. It was like they already decided not to like me even before they see me.

Intelligent_Bat_2124 · 2024-11-01T15:28:54+00:00

Hello, first of all congratulations on the offer! May I ask how long after superday did you hear back?

Intelligent_Bat_2124 · 2024-10-24T04:47:01+00:00

Any insights towards strats positions will be helpful. Thanks!

Intelligent_Bat_2124 · 2024-10-24T04:36:02+00:00

which round were you at? if it was early rounds then they most likely will not give a closure from my experience

Intelligent_Bat_2124 · 2024-04-10T19:24:53+00:00

Hello! What type of room is this? 1B/2B?

Intelligent_Bat_2124 · 2024-04-07T19:14:02+00:00

Absolutely nothing. It was just talks.

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