Better company for resume?
What’s a better company for your resume? A quantitative hedge fund almost no one has heard of Or A tier 2/3 company such as Bloomberg, Datadog, etc Just curious if anyone has insight. This is specifically about what will get someone more interviews. Do not answer based on tc or which one you’d rather the at Tc 140 yoe 1
Tier 2/3 companies with a decent presence and brand will get more interviews anytime. It casts the net much wider. Recruiters know those names well and search for people at companies they know. I consider myself quite aware of small quant funds but there always seem to be more that I’ve never heard of. You might find yourself limited to the circle of people that know what it is and what you do.
My company is about 5b AUM but it’s relatively “incognito” so to speak
Datadog is not bad as far as I know
Datadog > Bloomberg
Definetly not going to take off. They’ve been around for 30+ years and have stayed the same size the whole time
Better for your resume to who? Other trading/quant firms or Tech? I worked at a bigger trading firm and let me tell you; pretty much no one in tech knew what it was when I interviewed at various tech companies. And this is a fairly successful HFT firm (think {IMC, DRW, Optiver}). The resume value of it was basically a neutral at best, or even a negative at worst since they think you're at some generic finance company. And if you're saying your firm is even more unknown, then yea its going to be a wash. It has arguably better resume value to go to other quant firms but even then I think this largely favors large/well known firms. Even then, I think a bloomberg/ddg company --> Google/Meta/even mid/top tier quant --> top quant is easier and casts a much wider net.
Quant firm 100%
That’s what I would have thought but so far it seems like people disagree (only 9 votes in though lmao)
We all love working for a tech firm. But I am not sure if they know what Quant / PE firms offer 😜