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
2.0
Sep 4, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

- smart colleagues - challenging work, you wont get bored

Cons

- managers don't respect researchers and don't listen to their suggestions. There are two things I cant stand in a person: lack of integrity, and talking too much about things that he does not really know. Unfortunately my local GM has both. - bureaucracy, lack of transparency, many room for favoritism - very little left for new employees. Most of the pie is occupied by veterans, who are also given more privileges and have much better access to data / information. PMs have little incentive to use new alphas. New researchers ended up with very little bonus I think Igor is a good leader, however he has allowed a big gap to exist between him and the researchers, and the management who is filling the gap is incompetent. Hopefully he will realize that.

1.0
Mar 8, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Founder was visionary but somehow plagued the firm with politics and bureaucracy. Lots of brilliant people used to be around but now many have been gone or are considering to leave.

Cons

The tech guy in management, fond of talking BS and persecuting people he didn’t like. Somehow got the owner to believe in a bunch of “big” ideas he himself didn’t even know how to implement.

1.0
Sep 24, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

nice office, snacks and other benefits, good office location

Cons

Absolutely meaningless job. The routine of the hedge fund is just like a big whale eats, they swim around with their mouths open and filter food through their baleen bristles. Exactly the same way the researchers work, they have to produce loads of meaningless (absolute lack of research) strategies (automatized) alphas and then never had a chance to improve, discuss with traders or research further. They're looking to hire PhDs, but you don't need any education at all, just a basic coding skills to produce these worthless "strategies". Even farmers can do this job, not joking they once organized an event that everyone could take part and some farmer performed quite well. If you enjoy challenge yourself and like to do something that makes sense at all, don't even consider this job opportunity. If you like a lazy lifestyle and don't care what you're doing at your workplace for OK money, then this job is for you.

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