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
1.0
Apr 29, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Some amount of freedom. You can actually do more or less nothing for a few years before anyone notice (as long as you do some minimal pretending) if this is considered a "pro".

Cons

Google "The routine of the hedge fund is just like a big whale eats" review in glassdoor, this comment describes the nature of "research" there quite well. Apart from that, most of the company culture I encountered showed lack of integrity, lack of basic understanding of statistics, or both. It is a very political environment, in the bad sense of the word. I guess that it wasn't always like that, but the few good people that I knew who were still doing research there were highly unhappy or already left. Absurdly long non compete.

1.0
Dec 5, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

There are no pros in a company where the rule "survival of the fittest" applies to the janitor as well.

Cons

1. "secret society" management style - you know nothing and the management knows everything 2. Unbearably competitive work environment..you compete against your boss 3. If anyone has anything against you..you will be thrown out of the company for no reason other than "low performance".

4.0
Apr 29, 2016

Company is too restrictive

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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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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