Post by Johannes Meyer

Most quants who get cut from Jane Street or Millennium are not cut on talent. They are cut because they applied to the wrong machine without knowing it. Today's piece breaks down how prop shops and multistrat funds actually hire quants, and the most useful part is the distinction most candidates miss. A market maker like Jane Street and a pod shop like Millennium look similar from the outside and reward almost nothing in common. One pays you to optimize latency, fill quality, and signal decay measured in microseconds. The other ties your career to a single PM's survival and the durability of signals that hold for days to months. That difference decides which projects matter, which skills get screened, and why strong candidates get filtered early. Full breakdown of the levels, the roles, the comp ranges, and how to prepare for each is in the newsletter: https://lnkd.in/dJZe3CkZ It does not matter which role you are aiming for. Autonomai Recruitment recruits across every major fintech discipline. Give the page a follow to stay current on opportunities across the industry.