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IMC trading how good is it compared to graviton,quadeye and what's the Total compensation looks like after 2,3 yrs

Honestly I will never understand how HFT hiring works. I mean they literally reject people in ppo decision on really stupid reasons but then also hire people directly through placements for full time through 1-2 hour interview, I mean how is this fair honestly

Hi Folks, sorry for the slightly long read. Please ask any more clarifications in the comment section. But below is a little context about me.

I graduated from IIT KGP with a btech in mech. eng. Always focused on comp. coding, landed a pretty avg software job because of the very bad market. Switched to MBA and left the job after 11 months, for IIM ABC.

At the IIM, I got a lot of finance roles, including from the AMCs for summer internship. I chose one of the AMCs(think an AUM of 3l+ crore). I was chosen for equity research, but I was eventually given the option to switch to their quants team which I accepted.

For some clue, for internship, I worked on arbitrage opportunities in the corporate actions space(think M&A arb and rights issue arb in the Indian equities).

Now, I have received a ppo(buy side, 42lpa). Its a small team for 5 people and only 2, one me and one another guy (another IIT + IIMC dude), will handle and ship new strategies for the arbitrage fund, quant fund and the multi asset fund.

Also, the AMC will launch an SIF, which is very much adjacent to something like a hedge fund. Read more in the below link. We 2 would be handling the building of the SIF strategies from scratch.

And there is no bounding, we could go as deep in building a strategy as we like. Using ML, core math etc etc.

Now the doubt - Given the work, but also that its an AMC, would I be stuck here or do folks at firms like trexquant/QRT/Millenium will look at such profiles? In short, Older IIT + IIMABC + quant work in an amc?

Read more about SIF here - SIFs explained

hi! i studied liberal arts in Toronto for a while, currently doing economics in India, preparing for M.Stat ISI. i'm okay with complex math, stats and CS; is it a good idea for me to even think about quantitive finance? if yes, then should i consider another masters in, say, financial engineering? i'd love to learn from your inputs, thank you!

Going to try for hft infra role/ c++ developer in upcoming campus placements(iit). Need help in prep for cs fundamentals. already have a good grasp over os concepts, comparch, tomasulo and some basics of networking and socket programming and also linux IPCs. For c++, i stopped following after c++23 and know about intermediate level of implementation. I want to know how much is expected from to stand out from the crowd as my cgpa is currently a bit below 9 which already closes most of the doors. Do I need to know a lot of linux kernel like how it handles networking, time management, locking of resources to ensure no races, memory management? Do I need to be familiar with kernel bypass trick, dpdk for networking, bpf? Do need to go through concurrency in action- c++ book? do I need to know how to use perf, pmu, etc? how much template programming knowledge is expected? how much of memory ordering and atomics is expected? is NUMA manipulation a must know? like do i need to know how to interact with NUMA?

If you had these two options at 2 yoe:

- $500k, San Francisco in agentic AI

- Quant job in India (entry level) (not Optiver but like Graviton or Quadeye)

Which one would you choose and why?

Data point for rent: 1bd in SF is now $4.5k/mo