B-TIER skill
What elite quant funds actually hire for — 5 traits
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What elite quant funds actually hire for — 5 traits
50k ft — Why care?
@heidioftheeast lists what top funds screen for: obsessive original GitHub work, Math Olympiad / competition medals (~45% of hires), public-failure resilience, self-directed problem solving, being memorable in interview. High-signal hiring lens.
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1. A GitHub that proves obsession, not compliance.
The top funds auto-reject candidates without serious original work on their profile. Not forks. Not tutorials. Built things, from scratch, before anyone told them to. If your GitHub only exists because someone told you to make one, they can tell.
2. Competition medals that nobody asked them to win.
Over 45% of hires at elite funds had Math Olympiad or similar medals. These aren’t just credentials. They’re proof you can think under pressure, alone, on problems you’ve never seen. That is literally what the job is every single day.
3. The ability to be publicly wrong and keep going.
Markets punish certainty. The 1% had already failed at something, a bad model, a bombed competition, and came back anyway. Firms aren’t just hiring brainpower…
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