Sadly I've never been able to snag an interview with RenTech (and I've applied like a dozen times), but they're the ones that actually made me start taking finance a lot more seriously. Maybe if I ever finish my PhD they'll hire me.
I had previously thought of HFT and Quant as a bunch of "finance bros", and kind of dismissed it as "not real CS" [1]. Reading about RenTech and Jim Simons made realize that there's actually a lot of really cool and interesting math and CS that goes into this stuff.
Jim Simons being a respected mathematician who just decided to change trajectories has always fascinated me, and it's sad that he's gone.
[1] I don't believe this anymore and I feel dumb for thinking it in the first place.
I had previously thought of HFT and Quant as a bunch of "finance bros", and kind of dismissed it as "not real CS" [1]. Reading about RenTech and Jim Simons made realize that there's actually a lot of really cool and interesting math and CS that goes into this stuff.
Jim Simons being a respected mathematician who just decided to change trajectories has always fascinated me, and it's sad that he's gone.
[1] I don't believe this anymore and I feel dumb for thinking it in the first place.