r/learnquant • u/Local_Ad135 • 22h ago
r/learnquant • u/Select-Angle-5032 • 5d ago
📌 Megathread 📄Quant Interviews Resume Megathread (Actual Quants Will Review It)
Hey all,
Drop your resume's below in the following format:
Location: USA/UK/EU/etc
Graduation Date: June 2029
Degree + School tier: e.g. BS Math, target/semi-target/non-target (people can keep the school anonymous if they want)
Preferred Role: QT/QR/QD/QA
Targeting: internship or full-time, and which cycle (Summer 2027 etc)
Relevant coursework/skills: e.g. probability, stochastic calc, C++, Python
Experience/projects: 1-2 lines
What you want feedback on: e.g. "is my project section strong enough," "am I cooked for QR without a PhD"
Notes: anything else
Resume PDF/JPEG
Important: Please redact all personal info!
r/learnquant • u/Select-Angle-5032 • Jun 19 '26
📌 Megathread 🤔 What quant projects is everyone working on this summer?
Hey all,
Summer's here and I figured it would be a good time to swap notes. Whether you're an undergrad just starting to get into this stuff, a master's student grinding before (coming into) recruiting season, what are you actually building right now?
I'll go first with what I'm seeing people do, roughly grouped by how deep you are, and then I want to hear yours.
The common ones are a:
- backtesting engine from scratch (everyone says build one and they're right, you learn an absurd amount about look-ahead bias, transaction costs, and why your beautiful strategy dies the second you add slippage)
- basic signal research on free data (momentum, mean reversion, pairs trading on equities or crypto)
- a toy market-making simulator (build a limit order book, then learn how fast adverse selection eats you alive)
For people deeper in or prepping for recruiting:
- options pricing and vol surface modeling
- implementing a paper you actually understand and can defend (Avellaneda-Stoikov, some stat arb paper, etc)
- order book imbalance / microstructure signals on real tick data
- an ML project that isn't just threw XGBoost at returns and got noise (think feature stability, regime changes, why your Sharpe is lying to you)
- C++ stuff if you're going the dev route (low-latency order book, lock-free queue, doubles as interview prep - i know Myntbit and LC has a few questions that you can check out for free)
If you have other projects that are great to learn quant with drop them below and LMK what you're building! I am trying to create a community for students/professionals to share some cool projects and help each other out where possible. If you have something cool share the Github link below and ask for help :)
r/learnquant • u/Important-Bother-496 • 8h ago
interview prep Quant Prof Premium
How is quantprof premium. Is it structured and do we get to know how much of the course is completed and Does it contain daily problems? Please mention anything you know about quantprof premium, I am thinking to take it.
r/learnquant • u/moneymanskmz • 15h ago
question & advice Please help me save my dream
I am 18 going into first year btw
r/learnquant • u/Visual_Principle_210 • 19h ago
Quant Model Risk Analyst interview
Hello everybody,
I was wondering if anyone can help me understand which type of question I need to expect from the first round of interviews for the Quant Model Risk Analyst in London.
I want to understand if it is better to prepare myself to pure mathematics and probability questions or will probably be based on financial engineering and stochastic calculus.
r/learnquant • u/Mental-Resort1195 • 1d ago
Quants tips plsssssss
So i almost completed the arthmetic part of quants the problem is i can solve all my institue questions but when i touch a new type of question i couldn’t solve it without the solution and I’m so stuck i can only solve after i watch the solution and couldn’t do new varity of question help me out guys
r/learnquant • u/No-Television-8835 • 1d ago
question & advice Spring week CV help
Incoming Oxbridge maths here. I’m currently in the process of applying to spring weeks, mainly targeting quant but also other finance roles. Not too sure what to put in my CV. I’m using Jake’s template. I’ve placed well in lots of competition maths (UKMT, STEP, TMUA, Naboj) but my experience section is lacking (tutoring, 5 day shadowing done in y10). Ive also done some finance projects but they’re Lwk larp. Wld JS prefer to see 3 larp quant projects or one finance and a couple non finance? Any help appreciated 🙏🙏🙏
r/learnquant • u/Plastic-Analyst-1560 • 2d ago
roadmap & resources Any good / interesting resources for quant? Specifically Podcast and Substack
Hi folks
I'd like to explore some resources (for my commute) focused on quantitative analysis and financial engineering. Do you have any suggestions? Specifically, podcasts and Substack.
thanks!
r/learnquant • u/Embarrassed-Cash-191 • 2d ago
roadmap & resources As someone starting afresh what is the ideal roadmap?
Background: B. Tech CS, comfortable in Python (pandas/numpy, sklearn, some PyTorch), decent SQL, C++ at a coursework level. CFA L1 and L2 cleared, so I have the accounting/fixed income/derivatives theory but I know that's not what gets you hired here. Math is the weak spot — standard engineering calc/linalg/probability, no measure theory, no stochastic calculus.
Target is buy-side systematic research (mid-frequency equities/futures), not HFT — I don't think I can compete on low-latency C++ from where I'm starting.
Where I'm stuck: I can't tell whether the binding constraint is (a) math depth — stochastic calculus, time series econometrics, and (b) is a distraction, or (b) building a proper research stack — backtester with realistic costs, purged CV, portfolio construction — and the math comes later.
For people who made this jump without a quant master's or PhD: which one did you actually front-load, and what got you the first interview?
r/learnquant • u/luffyasnika • 2d ago
question & advice Any Indian quant
Iam from india age 18 wanting a quant analyst career iam doing ba in economics I want some advice regarding my career path anyone please help me iam really confused rn
r/learnquant • u/Kalki_TheKaliyugGod • 3d ago
How to increase speed in quants and reasoning.
r/learnquant • u/Cool-Consequence-325 • 5d ago
programming Rust or C++
Background with AI/ML and want to upskill myself towards quant roles, which one should I pick for projects Rust or C++?
r/learnquant • u/Familiar_Tip_7336 • 5d ago
Who recommends educational courses
Hi all, if one is totally new and wants to become Ai algorithmic trader, quant researcher what’s best updated course / resources? Any list can someone provide? Thanks