From what I've heard, they are very performance orientated. You lose, your gone. (Well, most HF's are like that, but they are suppossedly extreme.) Also, I was told that most of the people there are very money hungry, and don't have a life outside of the fund/s.

Again, this is what I've heard. Being only a week into my internship, I don't know a lot yet!

 

A co-worker of mine over the summer worked for Citadel and hated it. Most of his training class (along with him) was fired right after training because Citadel was going through tough times. They pay pretty well though I think.

 

Turnover at Citadel is very, very high. They're very active in hiring, and they fire a lot of people as well. They have acquired a reputation for this over the last few years. Doesn't seem like this would be good for worker morale...

 

The typical starting analyst earns $85K as base, although I know a first-year analyst at Citadel who was offered 130K as base right out of college. So it depends on the individual. But overall Citadel is more generous than quant divisions of big banks.

 

funny thing about Citadel... I sent them an e-mail asking for a little bit more information about their Global Equities group and they responded with a "We're sorry but we're not going to hire you, you're resume is impressive," and all that other shit. Well other than the fact that in no way did I phrase my letter to sound like I wanted a job, I didn't even include a resume

 

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