+8 Marshall Wace - Investment Analyst - Summer Internship - Final Round Interview/Tests 11 2y
+8 Best way to move IB to HF 6 2y
+7 Help me decide: Paulson vs. a top-10 credit fund 7 11y
+7 Does AQR run quant trading strategies? 4 10y
+7 Engineering to Banking? 2 8y
+7 Do HF's verify GPA? 9 8y
+7 Summer Analyst at a Small Fund 15 8y
+7 Networking for a MM SA/FT role as a college student? 1 1y
+7 Thoma / Vista/ TPG / GA Hedge Fund Exits 5 1y
+7 Highland Capital Management went bankrupt? 4 7y
+7 Realistic salary expectations? 4 1y
+7 Prop Trading/Quant Trading/Hedge Fund Tiers 2 6y
+7 Do you have to be a quant/programmer to get in a HF? 4 6y
+7 Relative performance of Citadel equity businesses 3 1y
+7 What is the normal vol target for institutional asset allocators? 2 6y
+7 Do severance end when you find another job 4 1y
+7 Armistice Capital - Any Info? 3 5y
+7 Distressed Analyst Wants To Train his Junior Analyst at Home 5 5y
+7 What if you don't include a pitch in the initial networking email? 5 7mo
+7 Can I mention whose family office I interned at on my resume? 7 5y
+7 Event Driven Quant Funds? 11 5y
+7 Paloma Partners - Any Color Would Be Helpful 3 5y
+7 Do you guys use Elliot waves? 15 5y
+7 Future for Consultants + Lawyers 2 7mo
+7 How are quant funds holding up in this environment? 10 1y
+7 Quant blowups? 10 1y
+7 How to quantify a target price? 2 5y
+7 Any good subreddits? 7 5y
+7 Segantii Interview 6 5y
+7 IB --> HF // PE 2 1y
+7 What is a Hedge fund and how is it different from a mutual fund? 1 5y
+7 What does it mean for a stock to "comp"? 4 5y
+7 Senior traders/PMs who blast music during worktime like Michael Burry? 2 5y
+7 Baupost returns? 1 5y
+7 How would you answer that interview question? 22 5y
+7 … 3 1y
+7 Applying to HF graduate/analyst programmes with experience ? 12 5y
+7 Are Fixed Income/Debt focused HF's more secure from a long-term job security standpoint? 2 5y
+7 Did my networking call go well? 3 5y
+7 Accepted S&T return offer - okay to continue interviewing? 5 5y
+7 Who comprises "the market"? 5 5y
+7 Healthcare Consulting to HF 1 3y
+7 Whats up with Finepoint Capital? 5 3y
+7 Are the days of college dropouts working on wall street as traders at hedge funds over 4 3y
+7 Looking to break an employment agreement I signed (still on garden leave) 2 3y
+7 Notable Hedge Funds Based in London? 6 8mo
+7 Man Group performance 4 1y
+7 Offshore Hedge Fund Accounts 4 3y
+7 MM Management Access - why so useful? 1 3y
+7 Is it safe to login to Webwhatsapp on work PC 10 3y
+7 Coatue Structured Capital 5 2y
+7 Key Square Capital Management 7 3y
+7 Limited MM ER exp —> mba —> pod shop? 5 1y
+7 Head of PMs 2 3y
+7 Bridgewater Comp Progression 3 3y
+7 Millennium Platform 2 3y
+7 London L/S headhunters 6 3y
+7 LO AM to MM HF 11 2y
+7 SWE intern: Two sigma vs optiver vs Akuna vs drw vs IMC 4 3y
+7 Investment Fund PM Underwater 9 1y
+7 Invest in fund in tax advantaged way? 10 7mo
+7 What are some questions you'd always ask when meeting with sellside or company management? 3 3y
+7 Senior PM vs PM at Citadel 3 3y
+7 When is it too late for the IB + PE to go to HF? 4 3y
+7 Help 1 3y
+7 A different approach 2 3y
+7 What do discretionary PMs mean when they say 'backtesting'? 4 3y
+7 MM HF Questions 2 3y
+7 Thoughts on Crypto Hedge Funds 1 2y
+7 Analyst Comp Expectations - Event Driven 3 1y
+7 Double salary during non compete? 3 3y
+7 Urgent: 7 day case study for P72 4 7mo
+7 Mercury Partners has anyone gotten a job from them 16 3y
+7 Davidson Kempner FT 2024 Investment Analyst 7 3y
+7 Redacted 6 2y
+7 Tech focused firms in LA 6 3y
+7 caspian capital 21 3y
+7 Ray Dalio & Bridgewater NYT Article 2 2y
+7 Brevan Howard 1st Round London 7 2y
+7 Good Pitches 3 1y
+7 Distressed Debt Investment Pitch Review? 8 2y
+7 What resources do you like / love / need / disregard? 2 2y
+7 Business plan 7 2y
+7 Getting started in FX 4 2y
+7 Squarepoint Capital Fundamental arm? 5 2y
+7 Investment Process 1 2y
+7 L/S Equity Prop Shops? 7 2y
+7 Large event driven funds US 9 2y
+7 Point72 Testing - What to expect 2 2y
+7 Risk management/PF construction materials for Analysts 3 2y
+7 Point72 Academy, background desired and career outlook? 10 1y
+7 Can anyone actually talk about how the Associate recruiting process works at MM HFS (Citadel (Surveyor) / BAM / P72 / ETC.) 2 2y
+7 Thoughts on Starboard Value, activist investing in general? 5 2y
+7 Wondering about Maven Securities 8 1y
+7 Q Investments 6 2y
+7 Multi-Manager Analyst Base Salary 9 2y
+7 Day in the life of a research analyst at a L/S? 1 2y
+7 Mid career software credit analyst 3 6mo
+7 Select Equity Group 6 6mo
+7 Working at SMID focused HF 13 6mo

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Overall Employee Satisfaction

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  • Morgan Stanley 02 99.0%
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Professional Growth Opportunities

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  • Morgan Stanley 05 98.4%
  • Goldman Sachs 01 97.9%
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