High-impact work, smart low-ego teammates, and a lot of room to build
Pros
- High ownership environment. The culture is big on making impact and getting stuff done. - Very smart coworkers who are also friendly, happy to collaborate, and low-ego. - Lots of opportunities to work on genuinely interesting and fairly cutting-edge modeling and research problems - The firm has made huge improvements to core infrastructure. This includes all sorts of stuff like compute, storage speed, data availability, platform robustness, etc. - The firm being smaller means good ideas can move quickly and individuals can shape the direction of research.
Cons
- Parts of the core C++ platform still contain old clunky legacy code, and although there has been a lot of cleanup work, there is still a long way to go. - Because the firm is relatively small, some quality-of-life tools and "nice to have" internal systems are missing compared to larger shops. - As a researcher, you often need to spend some time on the research pipeline and development work rather than purely on modeling or idea generation.
