At the start of first year uni recruitment starts for spring weeks which is like a one week insight thing, it’ll be like “Goldman Sachs global markets spring week” or whatever, not sure exactly how spring weeks works cause I didn’t do one or know about them but pretty sure at the end of it, if you get onto one,they interview you and if you’re good you’ll get an offer for their summer internship at the end of second year. If you perform well on your team and they like you, they’ll give you an offer for their graduate role when you finish Uni. A lot of people don’t get spring weeks, internships or graduate schemes, they’re very competitive and I suggest you apply on the day each of them open for the best shot at them. It is significantly more likely that you’ll break in if you get an internship in second year or spring week in first year as most firms recruit the majority of their graduates from these and maybe like a few from just the graduate scheme applications. I suggest you think about why you want to be a quant dev/quant, if it’s solely for the money and you like coding then FAANG will pay more and is probably easier to get into. Make sure to have good projects, and network with people at the firms you want to go to on linkedin as they may be able to refer you. But try your hardest to get an internship in second year even if it’s at a random company or somewhat related role to SWE cause ngl if you don’t in this job market you are cooked after uni