The truth about working at Citadel

[Andy Nguyen]

A post by a young quantitative researcher. He made his million after 2 years, quit and has been on anti depression medication for the last 4.
He touched on various aspects of what it's like working there. Pretty interesting read.

My experience at Citadel | Tech Industry - Blind

I’ve been meaning to write about my time at Citadel, and after reading a post titled “Is Citadel that bad?”, I decided to finally do it. It took me over a month to finish this because it’s not easy to unpack two years of what felt like a soul-drainin...

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[markbogorad]

Have also been hearing some questionable things about the traditional quant researcher/trader path. Yet to find a disgruntled quant developer though...

 

[MikeLawrence]

FinTwit was sympathetic but on the whole didn't think everyone is that bad off.

 

[Andy Zhang]

Seems like it got removed...

 

[Andy Nguyen]

Seems like it got removed...

Yes, it gets too much attention I guess.

 

[leetcode]

I don't think any of those critiques are unique to quant at Citadel, it seems that person is more unfulfilled at the reality of having a corporate job