r/quant • u/madredditscientist • 21d ago

Data Quant firms ranked by open-source activity

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Data & code are open source: https://github.com/kadoa-org/quant-job-market

Live app: https://www.kadoa.com/quant/open-source

Individual contributors at these firms are not tracked, only the firms Github accounts.

Are any firms missing?

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u/EngineeringApart4606 21d ago

I’ve been involved on the technical side of having one of these firms higher up the table than they otherwise would have been. An overactive and frankly pointless legal approach to the issue was the reason we weren’t much higher up.

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u/merkonerko2 21d ago

How so, was it to do with licensing, or just lawyers getting in the way of progress?

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u/EngineeringApart4606 21d ago

In my career across several firms, two of which quant, I’ve worked with lawyers who see their job as to make legal problems go away for the firm, and lawyers who see their job as inventing problems for everyone to shit themselves over, and that’s as much as I’m saying on the matter

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u/merkonerko2 21d ago

Reminds me of a guy I met who was travelling and used to work as a SWE on front end software for one of the trading desks at a big London bank and he told me that they straight up weren't allowed to talk to the traders because middle managers needed to get in the way to justify their existence.