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Message: <blockquote data-quote="longgamma" data-source="post: 277617" data-attributes="member: 37529">Its a great place to start. Do you have an understanding of what the CRB book does and what exact role are you being offered? It is a front office role and usually sits within the cash equities desk.Exit opps - what interests you? A few years in a BB is a great way to jump to a junior trader role in buy sideComp - cash desk is paid well but less than IB side atleast for till you hit VPInternal respect - lol, the other traders will hate you. You are taking execution power from them also general wariness around quants in sell side shops. But who cares?What they are looking for - you would be essentialy aggregating risk across the entire equities team. In the end, you must have a read on the markets. You dont need to be right just most of the times. When I left the BB I worked at, they were setting it up with a bunch of quants from the old prop desk. DB had a big debacle with a $60mn hole two years ago in the CRB book.Dont stick around in sell side for long.</blockquote>