Guides
The questions people ask before they ask an interview question: which job, which route, what it pays, and when the season actually starts.
- How to become a quant« Quant » names four different jobs. Picking which one you are applying for is the first real decision, because the interviews barely overlap.
- Quant or software engineer?The honest difference is not difficulty. It is what the code is being judged for.
- Do you need a PhD to be a quant?The answer splits by seat, and conflating the seats is what makes this question feel unanswerable.
- What quants actually get paidEvery number you have seen is a first-year total from a top-tier firm. That is a real number and a badly representative one.
- The quant recruiting calendarQuant recruiting is the one genuinely seasonal thing about this industry, and the season is earlier than most people assume.