[chronsk830]

> I've laughed in potential employers' faces when they said they expect 50 to 60 hour weeks from their hires.

Quant finance companies expect employees to work 60-80 hours per week.

But then again, they pay 400-500K USD to 22 year old new grads.

[tikhonj]

Can't speak for most firms, but I interned at Jane Street and this definitely wasn't the case: almost everyone there worked 45 hours/week with a consistent schedule (market hours + a small buffer).

It makes sense: they value people doing high-quality work and avoiding mistakes. Everybody there was also clearly very productive—it was one of my first experiences that convinced me that long hours are actively counterproductive.

I understand other firms in the space (like Citadel) have pretty different cultures, so it's not going to be true for the entire field.

[puffoflogic]

9 hr/day is not quality work. Quality work is 6 hr/day max.

[heavyset_go]

These were startups who were not making up for the long hours with financial compensation. They just felt that they were entitled to cheap labor that doesn't value their time.

[readonlybarbie]

Attention any quant firms-- I'll do it for 250k, 80 hours a week, 24/7 on call, fire me if I don't deliver satisfactory results.

10 years of experience in Cpp, Java, Javascript, Python, SQL, the last 5 of which as a lead (aka designing the data model and optimizing slow parts of the code base through better ds and algo implementations).

Only catch is I won't show up physically in NY or Philly or Chicago, etc.