> I've laughed in potential employers' faces when they said they expect 50 to 60 hour weeks from their hires.
Quant finance companies expect employees to work 60-80 hours per week.
But then again, they pay 400-500K USD to 22 year old new grads.
Quant finance companies expect employees to work 60-80 hours per week.
But then again, they pay 400-500K USD to 22 year old new grads.
It makes sense: they value people doing high-quality work and avoiding mistakes. Everybody there was also clearly very productive—it was one of my first experiences that convinced me that long hours are actively counterproductive.
I understand other firms in the space (like Citadel) have pretty different cultures, so it's not going to be true for the entire field.
10 years of experience in Cpp, Java, Javascript, Python, SQL, the last 5 of which as a lead (aka designing the data model and optimizing slow parts of the code base through better ds and algo implementations).
Only catch is I won't show up physically in NY or Philly or Chicago, etc.