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If this is what they are using as “training”, no wonder my portfolio with them doesn’t perform. Rookies

Knowing life, this is not the actual "training" but just a course that was allowed to squeeze through multiple layers of reviews and approvals and was deemed benign enough and useless enough that it can be disclosed. Not that the actual training is any better.. hell, our company recently made a big show of "giving" us access to a training platform, which, among other things, had basically a pdf book, but restricted with ridiculous controls. I sincerely doubt anyone learns that way... sadly, I am not helping, because now to show I am doing stuff, I up those stats artificially. I suck.

Former JPM quant here. This sounds right. Maybe this is something an intern was paid to write.

It says training for "business analysts" (I think fresh college grads?) and "traders," not quant researchers.

This was for the markets analyst training program (all new grads hired into sales/trading positions) and also done with a handful of clients’ analyst training programs.

Sort of, this is the generic part that was combined with a lot of Q/A and examples which weren’t written down.

The empty “data” notebook was a bunch of interacting with Bloomberg to pull out data and do calculations, similar to what would be done in Excel. This is where a lot of the tangible, immediately relevant content was.

i know its a joke, but the people that would’ve attended this would’ve never handled your portfolio. that would be the chase side.

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