How much capital do new recent grads get as "quantitative traders"? What happens if you lost your firm money?

If you just graduated college recently and now you are a "quantitative trader", what is the starting/maximum capital given to a NEW college grad by finance firms?

Also, over the course of a year as a new "quantitative trader", if you lose the firm money after 1 year, what will happen to you? Would you have to pay back all the money you lost from your personal bank account?

Will you get fired and blacklisted on ALL the finance firms within the city? And never work in anything finance ever again?

Will the firms hire evil henchmen to "take care" of you mafia style and make it look like a suicide?

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