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      WorldQuant

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      WorldQuant reviews

      4.2

      87% would recommend to a friend

      (466 total reviews)
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      Igor Tulchinsky

      92% approve of CEO

      81% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.3

      Work/Life balance

      4.2

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.1

      Culture & values

      3.9

      Career opportunities

      3.8

      Senior management

      3.8

      Compensation and benefits

      WorldQuant has an employee rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 466 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The WorldQuant employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Finanzen industry (3.7 stars).

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      466 reviews
      4.0
      May 5, 2016

      Largely Merit driven firm

      Research vice president
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Good upside potential for atleast first 3-4 years as researcher Challenging work Get insight into what information drives the market Smart peers Ambitious CEO Reasonable flexibility of time as long as you are doing well Exposure to several different asset classes

      Cons

      Bonus and progress saturation after 3-4 years Base pay is not comparable with industry standards Top talent across departments slowly moving out

      5.0
      May 3, 2016

      The best Company in the World

      Vice president, portfolio management and optimization
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Before WorldQuant, I used to work at a big hedge fund with a big name (DE Shaw), so I can compare. The only thing which was better there was the swimming pool at the place where we lived. While EVERYTHING work-related is better at WorldQuant. WorldQuant has great growth, great opportunities, great team, and great CEO.

      Cons

      None I can think of.

      4.0
      Apr 29, 2016

      Company is too restrictive

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      The CEO tries to make rational decisions to maximize everyone's pay. He propose, get feedback, experiments, and rework on his ideas on leading the company. He tries to listen to everyone and is very smart. He hates bureaucracy and try to get people work through incentives. He always try many different kind of things/ideas to get everyone involved debating the idea..

      Cons

      The CEO tries to push the company to certain directions. It used to be the company's goal is to maximize pnl. now, we do a lot of useless stuffs - like publishing a book, flying people around the globe attending meetings, hiring management consultants. We have more administrator assistants then ever before. Nothing wrong with trying to become big, but the company imposes more and more restrictive rules on researchers and portfolio managers to achieve that. For example, research directors would group researchers into different groups and force researchers to work in certain areas. They had to meet monthly alpha submission quotas. and portfolio managers are required to make money only through maximizing certain utility functions and work only in certain areas.

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