WorldQuant reviews

4.2

87% would recommend to a friend

(465 total reviews)
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Igor Tulchinsky

92% approve of CEO

81% positive business outlook

WorldQuant has an employee rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 465 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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465 reviews
3.0
Jan 4, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Good experience. Learned a lot about statistical arbitrage. They gave us training sessions to test the alpha platform. It worked pretty well.

Cons

The work is pretty challenge and they didn't give us much instruction. I need to read many books and articles to learn knowledge. The book, active portfolio management, gave me some inspiration.

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.

5.0
Dec 2, 2014

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Anonymous employee
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Pros

I have just passed the test. I should say that is difficult and sometimes disturbing and not clear. May be I'm wrong but it is not for mathematicians. You need to prepare tests like GMAT or something similar... But they are very professional and make you feel comfortable. It is a very rich positive experience!

Cons

good experience and very nice HR.

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