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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, Tower Research is super random to pick out. Why not go with the big guns: RenTech, HRT, Jane Street, Citadel, Two Sig, etc.[/quote]

RenTech is unique in that they mostly hire PhDs, and almost never undergrads. Maybe some geniuses from MIT get a call out of undergrad but that’s it. The rest are pretty standard with hiring: Ivies, Stanford, MIT, Duke, Caltech, and top CS/Math programs like Berkeley, CMU, UIUC, UT, NYU, UMich, Georgia Tech, etc.[/quote]

Just look at the leadership of these top firms for your answer. RenTech is run by an MIT grad. HRT is potentially the most profitable firm, and they're run by an MIT grad, a Duke grad, and a Harvard grad. Citadel is run by a Harvard grad. Two Sig is run by a Princeton grad and a Stanford grad. Jane Street doesn't have a hierarchal structure so no clear leadership. But it's HPSM and Duke at the top leadership for all these firms, so you can bet they hire a lot out of those schools. And then you'll get other smart kids along the way from similar top schools.[/quote]

+1. Apparently HRT is offering new grads $600k all in… ridiculous[/quote]

That's what they're paying software engineers. I don't even want to think about how much the quants make[/quote]

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