+17 Hedge Fund Internship Interview 6 8y
+64 Minimum Size of a Good Hedge Fund 32 8y
0 Eisler Capital - Interview - Quantitative Research Data 8y
+3 Top 20 Short focused Hedge Fund? 3 8y
+3 Conference (Earnings) Call - Legal Requirement? 1 8y
0 Citadel Investment Group - Salary & Bonus - Engineering Data 8y
+12 MSOR vs CFA 1 8y
+41 Internships early on? 21 8y
+19 Discretionary Trading Summer Analyst Interview 21 8y
0 Chicago Trading Company - Review - Prop Trading Data 8y
0 Chicago Trading Company - Salary & Bonus - Prop Trading Data 8y
+12 A Question Regarding Adjusted Present Value 1 8y
+9 Thoughts on a fund with a "disruptive innovation" theme? 1 8y
+3 Any Credit/Debt funds <500m that Invest in real estate / property companies 1 8y
0 Soros Fund Management - Review - Energy Data 8y
0 Soros Fund Management - Salary & Bonus - Energy Data 8y
+44 Should I Read Academic Research On Finance? 32 8y
0 Oaktree Capital Management - Salary & Bonus - Investment Research Data 8y
0 Point72 - Salary & Bonus - Infrastructure Data 8y
0 Citadel Investment Group - Salary & Bonus - Investment Banking Data 8y
0 Citadel Investment Group - Review - Generalist Data 8y
0 King Street Capital Management - Salary & Bonus - Generalist Data 8y
+26 DCM to Elite Hedge Funds 6 8y
+12 Starting a Business, then going into HF 1 8y
0 Dimensional Fund Advisors - Salary & Bonus - NA Data 8y
+12 Consultant breaking into Finance? 1 8y
0 Citadel Investment Group - Salary & Bonus - Generalist Data 8y
0 Oaktree Capital Management - Interview - Fixed Income Data 8y
+6 AQR Quantitative Research Onsite 5 8y
+3 Color on Senator Investment Group? 1 8y
0 Citadel Investment Group - Salary & Bonus - Information Technology (IT) Data 8y
+16 Initial (Stage 1) Company Research 1 8y
0 D.E. Shaw - Review - Collateralized Mortgage Obligations (CMO) Data 8y
0 D.E. Shaw - Salary & Bonus - Collateralized Mortgage Obligations (CMO) Data 8y
0 Pacific Asset Management - Salary & Bonus - Investments Data 8y
0 Marathon Asset Management - Review - FICC - Fixed Income Currency and Commodities Data 8y
+12 Sending Stock Pitch for internships - what model, if any, should I use? 2 8y
0 Bridgewater Associates - Salary & Bonus - Investment Grade Finance Data 8y
+9 Optiver trading intern 1 8y
+3 AQR early engagement program 1 8y
0 Blackstone Group - Salary & Bonus - Operations Data 8y
0 Taconic Capital - Salary & Bonus - Event Driven Data 8y
0 Taconic Capital - Salary & Bonus - Event Driven Data 8y
+9 Experienced distressed debt analyst - resume questions 1 8y
+21 Moving from an expert network to a HF 10 8y
0 Bank of America Merrill Lynch - Review - Investment Banking Data 8y
0 Bank of America Merrill Lynch - Salary & Bonus - Investment Banking Data 8y
+12 Quant Role Interview at ~$10B AUM Fund 1 8y
+3 Cubist salary range 1 8y
0 Citadel Investment Group - Review - Equity Capital Markets Data 8y
0 Citadel Investment Group - Salary & Bonus - Equity Capital Markets Data 8y
+26 Will Gold prices hit a bottom in 2018? 33 8y
+12 Divident REIT 1 8y
+32 Most unconventional paths to Hedge Fund that you've seen 21 8y
+3 Recommendation- IT MSP 1 8y
0 Silver Point Capital - Salary & Bonus - Investment Management Data 8y
0 EnCap Investments L.P. - Review - Oil and Gas Data 8y
0 EnCap Investments L.P. - Salary & Bonus - Oil and Gas Data 8y
+105 Q&A: Hedge Fund Allocator at a $2B+ E&F 39 8y
+50 For those who landed as a quant with only undergrad degree 23 8y
0 Citadel Investment Group - Salary & Bonus - Consumer - Retail Data 8y
+24 Working for Free - Doing Value Added Work as an Undergrad 7 8y
+3 Hedge Fund Return Database 1 8y
0 Morgan Stanley - Review - Equity Hedge Data 8y
0 Morgan Stanley Smith Barney - Salary & Bonus - Equity Hedge Data 8y
+9 Infrastructure PE Analyst to HF 6 8y
+27 Have a phone call with the founder & CEO of a large & successful fund. Need advice. 13 8y
+15 Quant Trading Summer Intern: Help... 4 8y
0 AQR Capital Management - Salary & Bonus - Trading Data 8y
+7 Do HF's verify GPA? 9 8y
+17 Internal Capital @ FO - typical terms? 14 8y
0 Sankaty Advisors - Salary & Bonus - Generalist Data 8y
0 Moore Capital Management - Review - Equities Data 8y
0 Moore Capital Management - Salary & Bonus - Equities Data 8y
+54 Distressed Debt Hedge Fund out of College - Prep Advice 13 8y
0 Apollo Global Management - Salary & Bonus - Generalist Data 8y
+6 Orbis Investment Management - thoughts? 1 8y
0 Point72 - Review - Investments Data 8y
0 Point72 - Salary & Bonus - Investments Data 8y
0 Zacks Investment Management - Salary & Bonus - Equities Data 8y
0 JPMorgan - Review - Prime Brokerage Data 8y
0 JPMorgan - Salary & Bonus - Prime Brokerage Data 8y
0 Black Diamond Capital Management - Salary & Bonus - Generalist Data 8y
+6 Performance Leg of a Total Return Swap 2 8y
+3 Opportunities in Middle Market - CLOs 1 8y
+37 Math or Engineering Undergrad for a Quant? 15 8y
0 Weiss Asset Management - Interview - NA Data 8y
0 Two Sigma Investments - Interview - Quantitative Research Data 8y
0 Graham Capital Management - Salary & Bonus - Quantitative Research Data 8y
0 AQR Capital Management - Review - Macro Data 8y
0 AQR Capital Management - Salary & Bonus - Macro Data 8y
0 Two Sigma Investments - Interview - Software Data 8y
0 D.E. Shaw - Interview - Prop Trading Data 8y
0 Jane Street Capital - Interview - Trading Data 8y
+29 Bulge Brackets and Hedge Funds 5 8y
+7 Engineering to Banking? 2 8y
0 Your favorite investing podcasts 3 8y
+38 Will financial analysts ever go extinct? 10 8y
0 Dimensional Fund Advisors - Interview - Generalist Data 8y
+3 How to find listing of all Hedge Funds in an area (preferably by AUM)? 1 8y

Career Advancement Opportunities

August 2026 Hedge Fund

  • Point72 99.0%
  • D.E. Shaw 98.0%
  • Citadel Investment Group 97.0%
  • AQR Capital Management 96.0%
  • Magnetar Capital 95.0%

Overall Employee Satisfaction

August 2026 Hedge Fund

  • Magnetar Capital 99.0%
  • D.E. Shaw 98.0%
  • Blackstone Group 97.0%
  • Citadel Investment Group 96.0%
  • Two Sigma Investments 94.9%

Professional Growth Opportunities

August 2026 Hedge Fund

  • AQR Capital Management 99.0%
  • Point72 98.0%
  • D.E. Shaw 97.1%
  • Citadel Investment Group 96.1%
  • Magnetar Capital 95.1%

Total Avg Compensation

August 2026 Hedge Fund

  • Portfolio Manager (9) $1,648
  • Vice President (27) $464
  • Director/MD (11) $372
  • NA (9) $320
  • Engineer/Quant (83) $287
  • 3rd+ Year Associate (26) $284
  • Manager (4) $282
  • 2nd Year Associate (32) $253
  • 1st Year Associate (76) $193
  • Analysts (234) $178
  • Intern/Summer Associate (29) $145
  • Junior Trader (5) $102
  • Intern/Summer Analyst (276) $95
notes
16 IB Interviews Notes

“... there’s no excuse to not take advantage of the resources out there available to you. Best value for your $ are the...”

Leaderboard

success
From 10 rejections to 1 dream investment banking internship

“... I believe it was the single biggest reason why I ended up with an offer...”