Doesnt feel like a tech focused quant fund
Doesnt feel like a tech focused quant fund
- Free food, drinks, etc - A lot of company social events - Generally most people are nice and the quants are really smart - Excellent WLB ( even compared to rest and vest tech places like Salesforce, Adobe, Google etc.) - Hybrid office culture, which isn't typical at most quant funds. This however may change
- Unless you're a quant the comp doesn't compare to the tier 1 or even some tier 2 funds
- IaC implementation is pretty bad, process in deploying applications is also bad but may get better
- Lot of internal politics between teams. Don't want to stereotype but I see this more and more as joiners are coming over from big banks and bringing that "banking engineering culture" over
- Very 2000's-ish top down engineering culture with enterprise architects calling all the shots for design decisions vs a committee of principal engineers at big tech.
- A LOT of middle managers. As other reviews have noted some managers have like 3 direct reports and I have seen some M2 managers who have just one M1 manager who again have like 3-4 direct reports....
It will be tough to be "World #1" when other quant funds like Citadel, 2Sigma, etc have better engineering culture, comp, talent or a mix of them.
However, management
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