None of this matters if firms only decide to give interviews to people from top schools. I have an MS stats and I still can get an interview because of my university not being a “target” school, and I know everything in this video and have gone through all the prep books. Maybe consider talented people from other schools for once. You make the job seem much challenging than it actually is. I’ve done much more difficult things like publish papers in journals. Yet, I am told I’m not a good fit, and I know they are screening me out because my MS from a top ten US school. Consider making the industry a bit more open rather than an elitist private club.
I understand your frustration, it is indeed quite a superficial industry, in terms of screening for candidates. We would love to have be able to have this kind of impact, where we shift the mentality, unfortunately, we are not longer working in the space. As stated in the video, there are some small ways in which you can bypass this filtering system, mainly going through a headhunter, which usually guarantees at a first interview, or going through a referral scheme (here it's a good idea to reach out on LinkedIn to employees of the firms you are targeting and ask them about the possibility of them referring you). Again, I understand your frustration with the current system, but I still wish you good luck in your pursuits!
@@atypicalquant I just feel for a job which is not as rigorous as it seems (I’ve reached out to said quants on LinkedIn who said their job is no more difficult than building regression models), the amount hoops you have to jump through and qualifications you need to land a job are quite crazy.
this all makes sense until you realize than a hundred other people from more prestigious schools who are at least as qualified applied for the same job as you... why would a firm interview someone from a no name school when someone from MIT with better qualifications and is likely to be quicker, brighter, and more competent wants the job as well lol. they don't have infinite time to spend on recruiting, they're gonna invest it in a way that seems optimal. as an industry it's highly incentivized to not gatekeep talent unnecessarily
@psibarpsi In order to hire new employees, most hedgefunds resort to three candidate pools: - Direct applications (via Linkedin/Career Pages): High number of candidates, Low average quality - External recruitment ('headhunters' find and share profiles; they get a bonus upon hiring): Mid number of candidates, Mid average quality - Internal recommendations (employees share profiles of friends; they get a bonus upon hiring): Low number of candidates, High Quality Even if you're an excellent candidate, applying directly might mean that you resume just gets lost in a pile of applications. To improve your chances, you can try leveraging the second pool. Do a quick search on linkedin for something like "Quant Headhunter" and send some connection requests to the first 10 (or most relevant to you). Subsequently, you can also leverage the linkedin recommendation system or lookup specific recruiting companies to expand this network even further. Start having discussions, and convince headhunters that you have potential; they'll support you in polishing your CV and pushing your profile to relevant companies (as they are incentivised to do so)!
Working on it! We have had a busy time in our lives, given that we are doing RUclips only part time. We plan to return to posting more at the end of this year though! :D
Hey, I really appreciate the work you've done and am a big fan of the way you present information on this channel. Is there any chance you could publish the manim python code so users and I could have a better understanding of how you create such nice videos? Thank you!
Hey! Unfortunately, at this time, I am not open to sharing the source code. It wouldn't help much anyway, as it was hastily written and relying on quite a few custom classes. If you have specific manim issues, I am happy to try and assist you with them.
i am logged into the quantguide but where do i use this PROMO CODE? When i go to premium it says to pick one subscription and after that i have to enter credit card details. But you said i can do a free trial? Please tell the exact steps
The code works for new users, and can be used when creating your account, in the field "REFERRAL". Then, you have the option to "Activate premium trial", where you still have to input your credit card information, but the first payment will be 0 USD. Hope this clarifies things a bit!
@@atypicalquant Hey, i tried signing up but when I was filling the details, only place I could see was "SOURCE" where I chose the option "REFERRAL", but after that it didn't ask for any code at all. So, I'm confused. There's no place to enter any promo code. They changed the UI too the whole website is changed now and its messed up.
In what direction would you like more guidance? Alongside what is covered in this video, I have a list of books from which you can start your preparation for a quant researcher job: atypicalquant.net/quant-books/.
@@atypicalquant Currently I've considerable experience with Machine learning, Deep learning algorithms for modelling part how I want to know what should exactly learn to go as quant like ( Mathematical models, statistical models and whichever else I might be not aware of )
Quant jobs are not as famous as those of software engineering or machine learning in terms of social media attention as they are not as accessible, which may be the reason why this channel never got the attention it deserves.
Thanks for the video. Just had my first quant interview today.
Best of luck!
Mam where are you? We need mentors like you. Please come back and make videos. ❤❤
None of this matters if firms only decide to give interviews to people from top schools. I have an MS stats and I still can get an interview because of my university not being a “target” school, and I know everything in this video and have gone through all the prep books. Maybe consider talented people from other schools for once. You make the job seem much challenging than it actually is. I’ve done much more difficult things like publish papers in journals. Yet, I am told I’m not a good fit, and I know they are screening me out because my MS from a top ten US school. Consider making the industry a bit more open rather than an elitist private club.
I understand your frustration, it is indeed quite a superficial industry, in terms of screening for candidates. We would love to have be able to have this kind of impact, where we shift the mentality, unfortunately, we are not longer working in the space. As stated in the video, there are some small ways in which you can bypass this filtering system, mainly going through a headhunter, which usually guarantees at a first interview, or going through a referral scheme (here it's a good idea to reach out on LinkedIn to employees of the firms you are targeting and ask them about the possibility of them referring you).
Again, I understand your frustration with the current system, but I still wish you good luck in your pursuits!
@@atypicalquant I just feel for a job which is not as rigorous as it seems (I’ve reached out to said quants on LinkedIn who said their job is no more difficult than building regression models), the amount hoops you have to jump through and qualifications you need to land a job are quite crazy.
this all makes sense until you realize than a hundred other people from more prestigious schools who are at least as qualified applied for the same job as you... why would a firm interview someone from a no name school when someone from MIT with better qualifications and is likely to be quicker, brighter, and more competent wants the job as well lol. they don't have infinite time to spend on recruiting, they're gonna invest it in a way that seems optimal. as an industry it's highly incentivized to not gatekeep talent unnecessarily
@@atypicalquantWhat's 'going through a headhunter'? Can you please elaborate?
@psibarpsi
In order to hire new employees, most hedgefunds resort to three candidate pools:
- Direct applications (via Linkedin/Career Pages): High number of candidates, Low average quality
- External recruitment ('headhunters' find and share profiles; they get a bonus upon hiring): Mid number of candidates, Mid average quality
- Internal recommendations (employees share profiles of friends; they get a bonus upon hiring): Low number of candidates, High Quality
Even if you're an excellent candidate, applying directly might mean that you resume just gets lost in a pile of applications.
To improve your chances, you can try leveraging the second pool. Do a quick search on linkedin for something like "Quant Headhunter" and send some connection requests to the first 10 (or most relevant to you). Subsequently, you can also leverage the linkedin recommendation system or lookup specific recruiting companies to expand this network even further. Start having discussions, and convince headhunters that you have potential; they'll support you in polishing your CV and pushing your profile to relevant companies (as they are incentivised to do so)!
No more new videos :( Would love to see some more. I think it's also awesome seeing the videos getting more and more traction as well.
Working on it! We have had a busy time in our lives, given that we are doing RUclips only part time. We plan to return to posting more at the end of this year though! :D
Thank you! Great quant thingy
Great video! Thank you
Glad you liked it! :D
Please add more videos. This is a great channel! Thank you!
Thank you, glad to hear you are enjoying the videos!
I love it. thanks
Happy to hear! You're welcome 😀
first final round interview for a quant research internship today
Which company?
@@g1rlss1mp Optiver
@@g1rlss1mp didn’t get an offer
thanks
You're welcome!
isnt it 3Blue1Brown the RUclips channel name?
You're right, there is a typo in the video
Hey, I really appreciate the work you've done and am a big fan of the way you present information on this channel. Is there any chance you could publish the manim python code so users and I could have a better understanding of how you create such nice videos? Thank you!
Hey! Unfortunately, at this time, I am not open to sharing the source code. It wouldn't help much anyway, as it was hastily written and relying on quite a few custom classes.
If you have specific manim issues, I am happy to try and assist you with them.
i am logged into the quantguide but where do i use this PROMO CODE? When i go to premium it says to pick one subscription and after that i have to enter credit card details. But you said i can do a free trial? Please tell the exact steps
The code works for new users, and can be used when creating your account, in the field "REFERRAL". Then, you have the option to "Activate premium trial", where you still have to input your credit card information, but the first payment will be 0 USD.
Hope this clarifies things a bit!
@@atypicalquant Hey, i tried signing up but when I was filling the details, only place I could see was "SOURCE" where I chose the option "REFERRAL", but after that it didn't ask for any code at all. So, I'm confused. There's no place to enter any promo code. They changed the UI too the whole website is changed now and its messed up.
Thank you for the video, I am a MS Data science student , can you please guide me how I should start my preparation for HFT , Quantitative Researcher
In what direction would you like more guidance?
Alongside what is covered in this video, I have a list of books from which you can start your preparation for a quant researcher job: atypicalquant.net/quant-books/.
@@atypicalquant Currently I've considerable experience with Machine learning, Deep learning algorithms for modelling part how I want to know what should exactly learn to go as quant like ( Mathematical models, statistical models and whichever else I might be not aware of )
“Historically brain teasers predict which candidates do well”? What studies show that? Seems dubious to me……
Hi i want to crack quant hedge company like citadel radix trading can you suggest me probability statistics best boom for cracking interview problam
If you're looking for book support for the most important topics, you can find most that I recommend here: atypicalquant.net/quant-books/
Quant jobs are not as famous as those of software engineering or machine learning in terms of social media attention as they are not as accessible, which may be the reason why this channel never got the attention it deserves.
This might be true about quant jobs. Still, I am happy about being able to help the small community we have built here.