Most people think quant hiring runs on resumes and referrals. A lot of it does. But firms also use competitions and events to find people, and some treat a strong result as a fast track to interviews. If you don’t have the pedigree or the network yet, these are
This is a curated collection of papers we have read (me and other quant peers), some recently and some a while back, that have shaped our thinking and sparked ideas in our own research. Every paper here was published at one of the top-tier machine learning conferences - NeurIPS, ICML,
If you are weighing a quant offer from a bank against one from a fund, the job titles will not help you much. Researcher, trader, developer. Both sides use the same three words. What changes is the reason the job exists. A bank earns its money from clients. It quotes
I've been a quant researcher at a hedge fund in London for three years. Since I started @heidioftheeast about a year ago, the question I get most is "how do I get into quant?". This post is for students and anyone still working out their path.