I’m a junior at Berkeley with a high GPA, and this season I had no problems getting callbacks from tech companies like FAANG (except Facebook and of course Netflix), Palantir, Qualtrics, Wish, Dropbox, etc. without much previous internship experience. However, I was ghosted or rejected by every hedge fund I applied to. What does it take to get into those companies? Will a tech internship this summer get me interviews there?
Amazon 4 YOE I got an auto-reject from Jane Street after applying online. It's easy to get a call from Two Sigma. Citadel is harder, your will need to talk about scale and impact on your resume.
Maybe. Maybe not. The truth is that it's a noisy process with lots of factors in play. I've interviewed onsite with both of the companies in your title and gotten an offer from at least one of them so far, but I didn't even make it past Facebook's resume screen (with a referral, even).
referral
Depending which tech company on your resume. HFT is looking for superstar in general. I guess you’re not standing out compared to your fellow Cal students. Sorry to be honest.
Ivy + amazon got me citadel this summer
C++ guru + AI
3.7+ will get 2 sigma and citadel if u have enough keywords in resume. Jane street the only people I know have 3.9+ from ivy school. They don't care much for experience as much as academics and stuff like competitive coding and research
What kinds of keywords? Like research?
I've gotten to onsite at jane street w/ <3.7 gpa, state school, but competitive programming. Pretty sure comp. prog. makes the difference.
Referral. Going to target schools. Reaching out to alumni working at these HFs
Idk when I lived in New York citadel recruiters wouldn't stop hassling me. I didnt even work at a great company. Their infra team probably has a lower bar I guess
Yes, exp. at F/G helps a lot.
What if it’s somewhere like Yahoo?
Less so, because there are few ex-Yahoo! alumni working at top quant funds.