r/quantindia

There’s a lot of different numbers online, so thought it would be useful to have one place with real numbers.
Firms: IMC, Optiver, Jump, Graviton, Quadeye, Jane Street, Tower, AlphaGrep, NK Securities,etc.
If you work in the space, share:
Firm | Role | YOE | Base | Bonus/TC
Freshers and IIT campus offers are also useful**.**

Hi, I am in 3rd year and from Top 3 IITs, I got intern as SDE in one of the MNCs, can non quant intern land a quant placement, also do big quant companies come from placements?

Also what to prepare/work upon to increase the chances of quant, are OAs too different (in terms of difficulty and topics asked) from that of the intern, if yes what new topics are asked

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I’m in tier 1/1.5 college and have secured black🪨 pmg intern plus ppo offer. I need help in exactly what all do i need to do to crack a hft and how to go about it

I’ve received an offer for a Quant Researcher role at PlusWealth. Anyone here familiar with the QR team?

How are the culture, learning, compensation growth, and career progression? Also, what kind of firms can one realistically move to after this firm?
Background: top 3 IITs, CS/MT/EE, 1yr exp as quant developer

Hello world, I'm from Egypt. I'm currently studying Statistics and CS at a local university. I was passionate about QF before knowing its name; always, when I was young, thinking about how to apply math and statistics to financial decision-making and general life. But there are no QF jobs in Egypt, and I hear that very talented people abroad get rejected from fancy universities. Am I being unrealistic and dreaming to have a chance in a career like that? Has anyone had an experience like this? What advice can you give me? It's painful to do a lot of work and in the end get nothing.

​​Hey everyone, I could really use some perspective on my situation.

​I'm currently at top 5 IIT in a non-circuital branch (8.5 CGPA, ~3k JEE Adv rank). Next July, I'll be starting as sde-1 at a popular MNC, but my absolute interest has always been quant.

​I have decent math projects, I'm pretty solid with modern C++ and probability, and I managed to land a quant internship at a small startup. But honestly, none of that seems to matter here. Indian HFTs and quant firms are obsessed with pedigree.

​My initial thought is to save around 50L through my current SDE job over 4-5 years, utilize all of it to pursue a Master's abroad (to kinda rebrand myself), grind there, and then hopefully land my dream job.

​Here's why I'm hesitating: I come from a middle-class family. Burning five straight years of life savings on a degree abroad feels like a terrifying financial risk.

​Is this a stupid, desperate gamble? or there exist a better path actually ,a realistic way to bypass the Indian gatekeeping and break into the industry?

​I would love to hear your pov.

I’m looking for 2–3 years of TBT data for F&O stocks and their derivatives so I can reconstruct the order book, run a simulator, and backtest some newly developed strats.

I know HFTs record this data, but I don’t think they would sell it. Is it better/cheaper to buy directly from the exchange, if available, or through a third party vendor?

Has anyone here bought TBT data for this purpose? What’s the best and most cost-effective source?

Hi everyone. I am an average guy from NIT/BITS with <7 cgpa (non-CS) working in analytics/consulting since 10 years now. I want to make a transition as a Quant to the Indian best (Graviton/NK/Quadeye/QRT/DE Shaw). Is there a possible way? Welcome any suggestions. Thanks a lot!🤞

I’m a 3rd-semester CSE student and I’m primarily targeting HFT... however, I also want to keep Google and other top MNCs as strong alternatives, since HFT is much harder 😭😭

My immediate goal is to land a strong internship within the next 1 year that is in my 5th sem... whether that ends up being at Google an HFT firm or another top tech company

Im trying to prepare intelligently without spreading myself too thin...how would you recommend balancing DSA, competitive programming, C++, CS fundamentals, systems knowledge, projects development, and internships from 3rd semester onward..cause I know if nothing works out full stack development can only save my arse I can't leave it as well 😭

If you were starting from my position, what would you prioritize and what would you not spend too much time on?

Early career Quantitative researcher role in Gurugram.

I was contacted by the recruiter for the role, there was no initial take home assignment, a discussion with HR, then a technical interview was scheduled with a Quant Researcher in US, the interview went well. What can i expect further, how many more rounds along with their requirements, and after how long will the recruiter contact for the next steps.
Any info and guidance related to the firm or the interview process will be very helpful.

Can anyone suggest which youtube channels or other resources i need to break into quant

I am a first year doing Btech cse at an iit and want to break into quant

Also i heard that the green book is the best book for it but how to cover the fundamentals.

Also can anyone share their quant journey

Also what coding languages should i learn and which projects should i make to break into quant

Hello I am aware that QR QT roles are exclusively reserved for the top cream of top IITs ONLY but do they hire for AI/ML roles from non IITs given that the applicant of course is very well versed in the field? I have a lot of interest in this particular area and have been researching for fun since grade 10 and would love to streamline myself into developing more projects which cater to this if they hire from non IITs at all

Is it worth a shot? or should I drop this and focus on more easily accessible (comparatively) internship opportunities the likes of say nvidia?

for context im studying AI/ML at a tier 1 NIT

Not really worried about course credits since I can get course credits for an internship and later cover up any left up courses in my 4th year. Really wanted another internship to hedge my options since optiver QT conversion rate is quite low(not really interested in QR as much).

Any help/advice is really appreciated.

Got an intern at NK for QR role for summer of 2027, I have the option to do a intern in my 7th semester.

Should I try and get 6 month intern at NK itself (also would they give one?), or should try to do some Research Intern in some prestigious foriegn uni? I have a good ML background so that might help in latter, but no olympiad medals, nor super high CGPA.

Also I got to know from a guy while at Future Focus, that there's quite a bit of RL work going on in NK, is that why they've hired a few ML interns this season, and would that affect PPOs for QR roles?

In the meantime, what should I focus on learning in order to perform well during my intern, should I get into the finance required or simply keep doing the standard cp?