+6 have you ever seen someone being helped in recruiting bc they started a blog writing about finance? 5 8mo
+4 Dalio Family Office hiring 2 8mo
0 Balyasny Asset Management - Salary & Bonus - Equity Hedge Data 8mo
0 Current Internship Processes for HF 1 8mo
0 Holocene Advisors Internship Process 1 8mo
+9 Early Career Transition to Hedge Fund 1 8mo
+20 Hedge Fund Head Hunter Master List 18 8mo
0 Best London AMs for Transition to L/S Equity 2 8mo
+23 Future of Merger Arb/Event Driven 17 8mo
+11 Just landed operational role at HF, from PC/VC, any advice? 7 8mo
+36 Is there much problem solving as a HF Analyst? 12 8mo
+6 Rokos Graduate Analyst Programme 1 8mo
+3 Rokos Analyst Programme 7 8mo
+21 Secondaries to HF? 9 8mo
+14 Does HR check deferred comp / comp from previous firm? 9 8mo
0 Trexquant - Interview - Quantitative Research Data 8mo
+7 How do you build software revenue projections? 2 8mo
+28 Interview Prep for "Market" related questions 9 8mo
0 P72 Experienced Academy Singapore 1 8mo
0 Citadel, Point72 and Ares INTV Q’s 1 8mo
0 Point72 - Salary & Bonus - Operations Data 8mo
+15 Private Bank to Discretionary Macro – What’s the Path? 10 8mo
+7 How to think about PE vs HF after IB? 3 8mo
+26 Leaving a bad gig - when is too soon? 6 8mo
+62 Verition 35 8mo
+29 FI Pod Analyst 8 8mo
+29 Quant Developer in a pod - career advice 5 8mo
+1 Does equity and credit HF pods have the same drawdown limits? 13 8mo
+6 Sell side for equities needs to be laid off - they add zero value 18 8mo
+35 HF after $100M Startup? 25 8mo
+6 Delete 17 8mo
0 Structured Products Hedge Fund 1 8mo
+5 What’s the best way to learn the skills necessary to succeed at a credit HF? 2 8mo
+12 Coliseum Capital 8 8mo
0 CFA or CIPM or CAIA??? 24 8mo
+15 King's College London - Target for Unemployment 7 8mo
+16 Help!!! IB vs HF 7 8mo
+20 Quant Research 9 8mo
+10 Path to macro PM? 6 8mo
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+3 Hedge Fund "Infrastructure" Roles 4 8mo
0 How to find start-up funds 2 8mo
0 Point72 BO (MI/Canvas) Salary Progression 1 8mo
+29 Software revenue build - Stuck 22 8mo
+3 Walleye Capital 0 8mo
+1 Point72 Academy (Experienced Hire) – Good Move to Pivot from Quant to Fundamental L/S? 2 8mo
+30 Millennium London grad programme with UBS 122 8mo
+15 re-recruiting/FT recruiting for HFs 7 8mo
+16 Seeking Advice from people at pods 6 8mo
+30 Wars between Hedge Funds/PMs 9 8mo
+15 What happened to Neil Chriss? 4 9mo
+37 Valuation & Discretionary Global Macro Investing 7 9mo
+23 L/S Pitch during Interview 10 9mo
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+24 Opportunistic across the cap stack HFs 43 9mo
0 MLP Sector Specialist Internship 1 9mo
+18 Del 13 9mo
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0 SIG Quantitative assessment 2 9mo
+9 Buy Side Application Guidance 2 9mo
+30 Catalur Capital 19 9mo
+3 What is ‘loving’ markets & stocks? 1 9mo
+6 Pod churn at big MMs 2 9mo
+4 Long Path Partners 4 9mo
+3 Typical Pod Shop Interview? 1 9mo
+15 Is now the time to do industrials as a sector vs tech/healthcare? 11 9mo
0 CAP internship vs CAP grad recruiting? 1 9mo
+12 Goldentree Culture 16 9mo
0 How to actually recruit for hedge funds? 1 9mo
+9 Scared of being pigeonholed into consumer debt from 1 9mo
0 Bridgewater Online Assessment 1 9mo
+28 Has Anyone Here Left A Relatively Cushy UMM / MF PE Seat To Pursue MM HF Work Instead? 8 9mo
+23 What does “you are not a good fit” mean? 16 9mo
+22 Short Stock Pitch - Prep 4 9mo
+9 SM HF that still does channel check / extensive DD? 3 9mo
+3 KKR employee trading policy? 4 9mo
+15 Macro RV edge? 9 9mo
+3 Generalist Vs Specialist in Global Macro? 1 9mo
+17 Army Reserves/MM Lifestyle 3 9mo
+26 EB -> MBA -> HF? 5 9mo
0 Statar Capital 3 9mo
+6 Citadel int equities HR round 9 9mo
+9 Post MBA IB Associate to HF 2 9mo
+10 Any insight into Exoduspoint London? 10 9mo
+10 Pod shop spin offs 8 9mo
+9 ckj 1 9mo
+6 How many wealthy people do you know who got rich from HFs? 1 9mo
0 Bridgewater Associates - Salary & Bonus - Macro Data 9mo
+16 Is it easier to burn out in PE or HF? 8 9mo
0 Point72 - Review - Generalist Data 9mo
0 Are MMs done recruiting for summer 2027? 1 9mo
0 Millennium - Review - Technology Data 9mo
0 Balyasny Asset Management L.P. - Review - Quantitative Data 9mo
0 Balyasny Asset Management - Salary & Bonus - Quantitative Data 9mo
0 Dualitas Capital 4 9mo
+16 P72 case study - holy shit 7 9mo
+12 Long/Short vs Convertible Arbitrage 1 9mo
+5 What are some SM funds that have MM features? 15 9mo
+16 Average Interview Process for Mid-Career Analyst in Semi-Niche Strategy 4 9mo
+17 Any juniors worrying about options if HF doesn't work out? 5 9mo

Career Advancement Opportunities

June 2026 Hedge Fund

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Overall Employee Satisfaction

June 2026 Hedge Fund

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  • Millennium Partners 98.1%
  • D.E. Shaw 97.1%
  • Blackstone Group 96.1%
  • Citadel Investment Group 95.1%

Professional Growth Opportunities

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  • Point72 98.1%
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  • Manager (4) $282
  • 2nd Year Associate (32) $253
  • 1st Year Associate (76) $192
  • Analysts (240) $181
  • Intern/Summer Associate (28) $146
  • Junior Trader (5) $102
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