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 ______________________________________________________________________ Resources mentioned in video: https://arithmetic.zetamac.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ 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 ______________________________________________________________________ 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 ______________________________________________________________________ Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2UXDak6o7rBm23k3Vv5dww/?sub_confirmation=1 ______________________________________________________________________ Check out StrataScratch for SQL interview prep: https://stratascratch.com