More of a quant hedge fund, with a a smaller market making arm and a venture capital team. The org is mostly composed of QRs and SWEs. Pretty traditional portfolio manager culture.įounded by ex-DE-Shaw people. Used to only recruit grad students but recently started recruiting undergrads as well. Fairly chill culture but pay tends to be on the lower side. You can email your resume and they do interview normal SWEs sometimes but it's very unlikely you'll get an interview for any other role unless you're extra-extraordinary. Culture is likely most similar to Renaissance. Rumor is that they offer the highest internship salaries. They don't publicize internships but they do select a handful of interns every year. Radix calls SWEs Quantitative Technologists. The new grad roles are open to everyone.įounded by ex-Citadel people. The internships are geared towards women. Internships are SWE + SWE/QR combo roles. QR roles are open for their Delta One team, mainly grad students.įounded by Pete Muller, collaborative but secretive culture (similar to Rentech). Traders generally tend to earn considerably more than SWEs at the Dutch firms, especially over time. Tends to have the highest pay out of the three big dutch firms (IMC, Optiver, Flow Traders) due their marble bonus system. Very engineering-focused with siloed teams. Specializes in market making.įairly school-selective recruiting. General perception of JS is that it has a very comfortable and quirky culture. Also offers a lot of first-round interviews. Tends to be more school-agnostic than other firms. Has one of the highest intern salaries.įounded by ex-SIG people. Tends to be more focused on the quantiative side than Optiver and Flow. Pay tends to be in between Flow Traders and Optiver. Word is that IMC has the chillest culture out of the three big dutch firms (IMC, Optiver, Flow Traders). HRT, JS and Two Sigma are also known to recruit QRs out of undergrad. HRT has a bigger focus on ML with their dedicated HRT AI Labs. HRT's culture seems to be pretty similar to JS and pay is similar too. The Algo Dev role at HRT is essentially Quantitative Research. Known to have a large focus on C++, both among QRs and SWEs. Similarly to Ansatz, Aquatic, Headlands and Radix, a small firm that is willing to pay more than most competitors. A caveat about their culture can be found in this article.įounded by ex-Citadel people. Very focused on research with a lot of people working on cutting-edge Machine Learning. Pay tends be lower than IMC and Optiver but the office is NYC instead of Chicago.Īlso hires people out of the US. Very school-selective, mostly recruiting out of MIT. One of the first traditional firms that started going into crypto.įounded by an ex-Jane-Street guy. Perception is that DRWers tend to have a good WLB but teams are usually siloed. Tends to be extremely school-selective, mostly recruiting from ivy leagues and similar. Where Jeff Bezos worked before founding Amazon. The quant arm of Steve Cohen's Point72 hedge fund. The general perception is that the culture tends to be better at Citadel Securities vs Citadel LLC. 📭 Applications are open for the QR role! The quants are mostly on the Global Quantitative Strategies team (GQS). The hedge fund side of Ken Griffin's Citadel. Uses Python and C++ for QR.Īquatic also has a Research Engineer position here. Similarly to Aquatic, Headlands and Radix, a small but prestigious firm that is willing to pay more than most competitors. Also try to have competing offers otherwise they might low-ball you. On the flip-side, stress levels and pressure tend to be on the higher side. Meritocratic culture where people are promoted quickly. Ideally we'd have separate rankings for SWE, QR, QT and separate rankings for culture, pay etc but this should do for now. ⚠️ Disclaimer: this is just a very rough ranking based on highly subjective opinions. Top New Grad companies (subjectively ranked based on perception, culture, program, prestige and pay):ġ️⃣ HRT - Jane Street - Radix - TGS - PDT.Ģ️⃣ Citadel (Securities) - Headlands - Ansatz - Aquatic.ĥ️⃣ Akuna - DRW - SIG - Flow Traders - Tower - Virtu.
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