How does one go about evaluating a hedge fund as a potential place of employment? How do you ask the right questions to evaluate values, fit, etc.?
What quantitative metrics are useful? Is it important that a fund be at a certain level of AUM to be able to make certain trades, say?
| +30 | Want out - next steps | 7 | 1h |
| +24 | Is the grass really greener? (LSD millions SM Senior Analyst hopping to C/M/BALY/P72) | 9 | 7h |
| +19 | AI/job update | 5 | 3d |
| +18 | Fund 1 8%, fund 2 5%, when will fund implode? | 10 | 13h |
| +9 | CorpDev -> HF? | 1 | 2d |
| +9 | Confused on all the HF fee jargon | 1 | 15h |
| +3 | Dragoneer | 1 | 5d |
| +2 | Recent unwinds | 5 | 1d |
| +2 | Top Single Managers 2026 | 6 | 1h |
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