Hey all, just to give some context. I am a new analyst on the electronic trading desk and I am in the product group covering the equity algos of the firm. Its been a couple of months since I started and I am learning a lot but I still feel truly lost. Is there a time frame when things begin to click and connect? Overall, I feel lost and all over the place. Any advice regarding the first couple of months would help a lot.
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Great advice I once received: It takes 3 months to know where you are in the firm and what your job even is. It takes 6 months to understand that job at a competent level. It takes 9 months to be able to do your job without a lot of support and start to see the bigger picture.
You are fine!
just keep your head down, become a sponge of all the information around you. The pieces of the puzzle will start to come together.
don't worry about it; it just takes time. Keep learning and working hard; things will come together
This is why people don't like to see job hopping under a year, it takes about that long to start to learn and get good at the role.
First week into my role, I asked one of the PMs for advice on how to speed up the learning curve. He replied "OSMOSIS".
In retrospect, It took me about a year before i was making meaningful contributions to my first firm. Learn everything you can. Every programming language, library function, communication protocol, etc...How different systems interact (at some level, there is code that is relatively easy to understand for almost everything).
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