Interview with a quant trader

This is an extremely lucrative but pretty mysterious job that I know many people are interested in learning more about. In this video, I interview Worthan Kwan, a quant trader at a hedge fund to learn about his day to day, how much money people are really making, what the requirements are to become a quant trader, and much more! I also made a post a few weeks back crowdsourcing questions and I'm pretty proud to say that we got through almost all of them in this video :D

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Resources mentioned in video:
https://arithmetic.zetamac.com/
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You might also be interested in these videos:

The Resume that got me my FAANG job (entry level data scientist):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx-x-yXXE9I
Day in the life of a FAANG Data Scientist:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCi6fWuI8r4
How I learned SQL from Scratch in 11 Days to Pass my FANG SQL Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaD3ZFFNwhM
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Timestamps:

00:00 Intro
00:40 His background
02:54 Why quant trading?
04:00 Why he did a masters in computer science
05:18 Day in the life of quant trader
09:23 Salary expectations + career growth
15:28 Words of warning
16:38 Why quant trading + how to get interview
19:22 Non traditional background?
22:14 Trading related projects
23:10 Interview tips
25:24 What math do you need
30:12 Quant trader vs research vs engineer
34:05 How stressful is the job
39:26 Lightning round
41:00 What he would have studied in undergrad
42:09 Advice for breaking into the field

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