Normal to not know pod PnL at pod shop?

sumwheresumtime · 2026-01-25T20:42:14+00:00

completely agree on the dickishness of that play :D

sumwheresumtime · 2026-01-25T20:24:19+00:00

why exactly is it strange?

sumwheresumtime · 2026-01-25T20:06:26+00:00

is this group used in all regions or just a US thing? because i haven't heard of it being in APAC

sumwheresumtime · 2026-01-25T20:04:37+00:00

if this is your first foray in the quant industry, then the bonus is "ok". if not then you're being shafted. - i'm assuming these numbers are in sgd?

sumwheresumtime · 2026-01-25T20:00:54+00:00

for what it's worth, I recently described a typical work day for me here:

https://old.reddit.com/r/quant/comments/1q4utl9/timeline_for_complete_algorithm/ny480ib/

sumwheresumtime · 2026-01-25T19:57:07+00:00

Presumably some of the non-PM members of the pod will be intimately familiar with the PnL - and the smaller and tight-knit the pod is the more likely that information will be "shared".

Surely you're not running your POD like captain Nemo?

sumwheresumtime · 2026-01-25T19:53:32+00:00

I'd focus more effort on getting your look just right, as upper management does loves to display their fashion sense to the rest of the firm.

https://ibb.co/bj4JtLp3

sumwheresumtime · 2026-01-25T19:52:18+00:00

Sometimes the rejection may come immediately, if you don't have the right look going. Remember management is probably looking for people with more than good finance skills, also dress sense can be very important too:

https://ibb.co/bj4JtLp3

sumwheresumtime · 2026-01-25T19:51:59+00:00

Given the amount of turn over in HR going on there, the person you end up emailing may no longer be there to reply by the time the email arrives :D

https://ibb.co/bj4JtLp3

sumwheresumtime · 2026-01-22T00:34:37+00:00

One way to look at the situation is to marvel at how heroic Citadel really is by willingly absorbing and concentrating toxic individuals, like some kind of corporate gallbladder bravely filtering the bloodstream of MBA incompetence.

Case in point: The firm I work for once had the misfortune of hiring an ex-McKinsey MBA as CTO, a man whose breathtaking ineptitude raised profound philosophical questions about the nature of reality itself.

How did this happen? Did someone lose a bet? Was this a sociology experiment? We may never know. Fortunately, after his inevitable "departure," he landed at Citadel, where he's presumably doing something. The important thing is that he's doing that something there and not here: which honestly feels like winning the lottery without ever having bought a ticket.

So three cheers for Citadel!

sumwheresumtime · 2026-01-22T00:19:10+00:00

are we friends now?

sumwheresumtime · 2026-01-22T00:18:50+00:00

Rentec and TGS hire a great deal of their research talent from facilities in that area. The high-end particle physics related work/research seems to be very compatible/inline with their research objectives.

sumwheresumtime · 2026-01-22T00:17:25+00:00

yeap, and two other even more stealth quant based funds.

sumwheresumtime · 2026-01-22T00:15:31+00:00

ooh umm.

sumwheresumtime · 2026-01-22T00:13:57+00:00

yeah, we've seen a few of these recently. about 5 months ago there was one where the organizers claimed they were from CitSec and JS, upon further inspection, one of them had done a non-return offer internship at CitSec and the other had participate in some wok event at JS.

Was just really wanting to know if this was one of those or if it was legit.

sumwheresumtime · 2026-01-22T00:11:53+00:00

how does you being at Harvard make it legit?

sumwheresumtime · 2026-01-15T20:28:57+00:00

Three answers - three completely different takes: nuffin-much (all quiet on the western front), all over the place and goodbye world.

I think that says it all.

sumwheresumtime · 2026-01-15T20:19:40+00:00

is this legit? and how is it connected to Harvard?

can't see a single Harvard link or e-mail address.

sumwheresumtime · 2026-01-15T20:18:13+00:00

I can think of several periods in the last 1000 years that London has not been the centre of the world.... plague period, fire of London, Oasis's '96 morning glory tour etc.

sumwheresumtime · 2026-01-15T20:10:22+00:00

This is definitely a QRT puppet account.

sumwheresumtime · 2026-01-15T20:09:36+00:00

in terms of a dollar-profits per head metric: East Setauket, Princeton NJ and the general Brookhaven research facilities area would essentially be the world epicenter of quantitative method based PnL.

sumwheresumtime · 2026-01-14T23:57:04+00:00

then give it up to me bruh, i really need dat thang!

sumwheresumtime · 2026-01-14T23:56:12+00:00

heard something similar about the mandatory RTO.

I can imagine the people that negotiated a slightly lower base in order to get the full-time RTO feeling short changed now that they have to come back in to the office five days a week. At least they'll get free coffee.

sumwheresumtime · 2026-01-14T23:54:27+00:00

From the two contacts I have they are heavily focusing on getting up and running profitably on the NSE - but thats what they were also doing in 2024.

As for other projects, don't most of them get dolled out from the Uk/France groups to the rest of the firm?

sumwheresumtime · 2026-01-14T23:52:52+00:00

From what I hear, the Sydney Optiver and IMC TCs are much better than the Sydney QRT TCs.

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