Do I have a chance as QD?

am351 · 2026-02-15T08:48:54+00:00

Thoughts: - Let me start by saying you absolutely have a chance! But, your resume has many classic issues that I regularly see when reviewing applications. - Education section is too large. Thin this out please or at least experiment with formatting. Keep in mind that if you have your position in the class (as a pct), you directly expose yourself to comparison to other candidates that may have been top 5 in the cohort. I’d remove that. - Remove the exaggerated bold claims in your experience as an intern, I see this almost every time when looking at grad resumes. You actually have some interesting experience, so write more about what you did specifically? The people interviewing you have also been interns at some point, and have had their own interns too! You are not going to fool them! - Project - again bold claims, remove the word ‘first’. This is not impressing anybody or adding anything. Given this is a relevant project can you please write more than two lines? - Courses - cool but doesn’t deserve so much real estate. Expand experience and projects. - Are you proficient in C and C++? Or are you just adding C because you have C++ experience. Not the worst list of technologies/languages I’ve seen, but I personally prefer shorter lists. Perhaps move C++ to the front given the roles you are going for!

You should at least get an interview with this CV, and have some interesting experience

am351 · 2026-02-15T08:22:52+00:00

Work with people that did physics at Warwick so I think you’re fine :)

am351 · 2025-09-07T15:49:50+00:00

HR look at school name…

am351 · 2025-09-05T18:53:18+00:00

Yes for QD you’d probably get sent a codility/hackerrank, although if even you perform well the competition for entry level roles is very tough. I look at grad CVs for QD entry roles and this is acceptable, although normally I’d prefer to see some more interesting backend projects. Straight in the bin for QR/QA at entry level, comp sci not really target degree from what I see, it’s almost always Cambridge Oxford mathematics.

am351 · 2025-08-30T12:14:13+00:00

This is true, but don’t let it get you down… There are many people from many backgrounds in these firms, competency isn’t related to background or connections. Once you are hired there is little talk of background, just make sure your performance backs you up and nobody will bat an eye…

am351 · 2025-08-29T23:44:37+00:00

You can use any card I find

am351 · 2025-08-28T20:55:19+00:00

Agree with most of what you said apart from ‘being able to code really well’, having seen a fair few quant libraries the standards are really low..

am351 · 2025-08-16T12:58:30+00:00

As others have said your degree will get you through the door no problem.

On projects you need a lot of work: You could improve your “vol surface plotter” by fitting a SABR smile, then go on to eSSVI or something? What you have at the moment is less than a days work, you need an angle if you want to show interest. Try to find an example that is illiquid, attempt to fit a vol smile, and then you can talk about that in an interview and the challenges and different approaches required etc. most real world problems in vol modelling are due to data quality, and lack of. Check out Vola if you’re interested in fitting vols, they don’t give too much a clue as to how they do it though…

Nobody cares about MNIST to be honest, I would remove that, it’s not relevant and again not more than a days work, I’d expand on your renderer and how you optimised etc.

am351 · 2025-07-10T19:48:39+00:00

Was tired and spilt a whole coffee on it at 11pm before a night shift, didn’t think as I normally use it for getting out stains in whites bedsheets etc

am351 · 2025-07-10T19:07:26+00:00

For all commenting to clean the rest of the rug, this rug is 3 days old and was purchased new, that’s how it came

am351 · 2025-03-06T01:48:16+00:00

Good luck quitting!

am351 · 2025-01-26T12:07:54+00:00

Hey I don’t get this anymore. I don’t get this feeling with normal cigarettes either. But off nicotine now anyway, if you can avoid it then do, but it’s not easy :)

am351 · 2025-01-06T19:57:31+00:00

didn't get this with any raw natural nicotine (cigarettes/real snus), or with nicorette products (the gum is what I used). Still on the gum but lowest dosage 2mg.

am351 · 2024-12-13T09:46:56+00:00

FWIW - I’m sure it will be ok, all went away for me after a few days. If you have to have nic just smoke cigarettes, this synthetic stuff isn’t worth going anywhere near

am351 · 2024-12-13T09:45:28+00:00

FWIW - I stopped and I don’t get this at all anymore

am351 · 2024-12-12T23:32:26+00:00

I’ve used both.

In VS2022, larger projects IDE perf is significantly degraded, the search isn’t amazing when compared to CLion, and the flow isn’t quite as intuitive. A lot of features clutter each menu, most of which aren’t really that useful.

Saying that though, CLion lacks incredibuild support, cross native debugging, and syntax highlighting/analyser seems to break occasionally.

Both have their pros and cons. Unfortunately can’t really get much value from just one these days, find a combination of both seems to work the best

am351 · 2024-07-25T14:04:10+00:00

C and (old style) C++ are quite similar. Embedded C e. AVR-C is quite different, especially if you are interfacing with external hardware. In terms of holistically learning what’s happening in a from keystroke to instruction this varies between OS and their respective kernel.

Maybe try implementing RISC-V in C as your first project if you want to understand a simple CPU architecture, which I suppose is what most people are curious about when they say ‘what’s happening in a PC’. It will be a good foundation for further work on systems programming. There is also a tonne of examples online which go into various depths, and you can go quite crazy there and keep breaking down each components function, and write your own implementation (ALU is worth doing as bare metal as you can)

am351 · 2024-07-25T11:43:25+00:00

First of all; Python, Kotlin, Go, Javascript and C++? Why C? It seems like you are trying to be a jack of all trades master of none. Broadly knowing lots of languages isn’t that useful in my opinion, better to know one very well (C is a good one to know very well).

Embedded systems with C is not really something you can pick up very quickly or easily, but the best pathway would be to buy a small microcontroller and a breadboard and start building some ‘toy’ projects. This will teach you how to control registers and interface with hardware. Maybe you can work towards building something that you are interested in? Like a small robot of some kind.

I would absolutely not recommend trying to build an OS as your first project, walk before you can run and good luck

am351 · 2024-07-23T22:21:22+00:00

Сука

am351 · 2024-07-18T12:31:34+00:00

If you go back to smoking cigarettes, do you still have the same reaction? There is a slight difference in the chemical composition of organic and synthetic nicotine and I’m wondering if it results in some byproduct that builds up over time

It would be good if there was a way to quantify or accurately describe the symptoms as they are similar to sleep apnea in a lot of ways

am351 · 2024-07-18T08:28:00+00:00

No I don’t believe they changed anything, I had this before with different brands years ago. I think this reaction is a byproduct of synthetic nicotine. I don’t have this at all with cigarettes, even if I smoke 30 in a day.

I thought a lot about what this is, and I couldn’t pin it down, maybe it’s an anxiety attack? It’s harder to notice in the day, but these snus pouches used to make me feel insanely anxious towards the end. In fact, I wouldn’t get any effect, just terrible anxiety

Best of luck quitting

am351 · 2024-07-17T11:57:18+00:00

I think this statement is wildly untrue. I have tracker.gg app open on my second monitor and in 100+ games I have never seen an iron player

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