WorldQuant Quantitative Developer reviews

4.4

85% would recommend to a friend

(96 total reviews)
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Igor Tulchinsky

85% approve of CEO

75% positive business outlook

Quantitative Developer employees have rated WorldQuant with 4.4 out of 5 stars, based on 96 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Quantitative Developer professionals have an excellent working experience there. WorldQuant is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Quantitative Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Finanzen industry (3.7 stars).

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96 reviews
5.0
Jun 5, 2015

Great place

Recommend
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Pros

sharp people, good pay, learning is good

Cons

work pressure is high at times

1.0
Dec 30, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

I don't know what to write here - ok, work/life balance is not bad compared to other places I worked at.

Cons

Carefully read what other people wrote here before. Unfortunately, almost all complaints are true - inexperienced management (yeah, knowledge of how to make money doesn't automatically entail knowledge of how to run business), promises without realization, under-compensation, treating people as slaves. Important thing that many speakers have mentioned - tense and destructive competition. The problem is that the company does standard statarb everybody does nowadays, and doesn't want to expand its areas of expertise, but expands it research stuff. As the result, all simple and medium-difficulty ideas are already explored, and new researchers have no room to show their talent (and earn bonuses). But management just doesn't see this problem. Ok, put aside money/atmosphere, if you just want to get a bit of experience. What about major - research - side of the business? Bad news for you too: you're going to work on ancient c++ infrastructure, without usual stuff you have probably got used to (linear algebra, econometrics, statistics, machine learning, etc.) Have you seen their websim? Actually, that is the level of infrastructure you're going to work with. Forget about gpgpu and other modern technologies - old school c++ and a couple of threads are your friends here, welcome to the 20th century, son! Another problem here is that due to tense competition people don't have time for self-development and education, which further flattens learning curve.

1.0
May 27, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

The work is very fast paced. The setup of the company really encourages learning.

Cons

There is too much competition to a point that it becomes destructive for learning

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