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[Priyanshu Priyank @PriyanshuP1405]

A lot of new people have followed me recently so I thought it is time I give my brief intro and few more things that could still help for quant.

Intro:- I am a final year engineering student from Thapar and I've been into quant since my first year. I have done past quant internships at small trading shops both in India and in US firms. I have also been an avid national level quizzer, icpc regionalist and international quant championship national finalist. I have also done couple of research internships in the area of high performance computing and traditional applications of machine learning and deep learning in different domains including agriculture and econometrics, thus submitted few papers in different publications (result not out yet). All of this happened before I finally decided to join my current stint at a CAT III alternative investment fund as a quant researcher before being recently promoted to as a quant portfolio manager. I have been working there since while also being the first in my entire batch to be placed while having few other offers from big tech and research labs. I still have one more year left in college (atleast officialy) but I'll be continuing at my current place and scaling up and trying other things.

Common doubts and help:-
-> I got it because I had realistic approach of starting by applying from new age trading firms across the world and gaining experience rather than having unrealistic expectations of getting into T1 hfts or buy/sell side firms -> If you're not from old IITs the best suited way would be to grind cp despite of the cheating scandals increasing as that would still be the only way you can prove your still unproved problem solving skills
-> Apart from grinding cp you should double down only on studying ML/DL instead of dev etc and try to do good research internships in your first/second year summer breaks while still grinding cp.
-> If you're already way past this point honestly it would be practically not possible to get in unless you go for higher studies probably from CMI/ISI and other good unis from India or foreign, or probably apply and start out as quant dev/swe in trading firms and doing internal switch over the years within the firm

Resources:-

Notion link - https://t.co/EgK8PPUNAS

Github - https://t.co/FCaRsBQpUd

w2Quant roadmap - https://t.co/bXgTMUk4hr

Quant finance community - https://t.co/cSuxVfkjhB

Rest along with my work I have been working on quant memo which I am trying to visualise as what I would believe should be enough to prepare both for quant interviews and for everyday scroll through what new research/ideas came out this week or have been in talks to also prepare you somewhat as a retail quant. However this is going to be slightly expensive as it's going to charge your expensive hours being put in learning :)

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