Masterclass
Masterclass: How Top Prop Trading Firms Hire and Train Quants
An inside view of how proprietary trading firms in India and globally source, screen, interview, onboard and evaluate quantitative talent. Built for senior quants who want to understand the machine they are inside, aspiring systematic fund managers who need to build one, and prop desk leads who own a hiring pipeline. Covers the economics of a trading seat, the campus and lateral funnels that feed Indian HFT and options market-making desks, the probability, market-making and coding rounds and how they are actually graded, the bootcamp and graduated-risk model used to train a fresh quant, and the evaluation gates that decide who gets capital. Grounded in NSE and BSE market structure, SEBI regulation and real Indian desk examples.
MODULES
4
DURATION
4 Hours
TRACK
Quantitative Finance
Access Level
LEARNER
Everything included
Full Text Playbooks
Actionable Exercises
Mobile Reading Mode
Lifetime Updates
Curriculum Breakdown
Chapter 1: The Prop Firm Machine and Why It Hires the Way It Does
4 Lessons▶
Prop Firms vs Hedge Funds vs Bank Desks: Whose Money It Is and Why That Changes Everything10 min read
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The Indian Prop Ecosystem: HFT Desks, Options Market Makers and Global Firms' India Offices11 min read
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Roles Decoded: Quant Researcher, Quant Trader, Quant Developer and the Hybrid Seats10 min read
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The Economics of a Seat: What a Desk Costs, What It Must Earn and Why Firms Hire So Few11 min read
Chapter 2: Sourcing and Screening: How the Funnel Is Built
4 Lessons▶
The Funnel: Campus Placements, Referrals, Competitions and Lateral Hires10 min read
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The 90-Second Resume Read: What a Prop Firm Screener Actually Looks For9 min read
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Online Assessments: Probability, Mental Math and Coding Tests and How They Are Scored11 min read
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Case Study: Reverse-Engineering a Tier-1 Desk's Screening Rubric12 min read
Chapter 3: The Interview Loop: What Each Round Is Really Measuring
5 Lessons▶
Probability and Expected Value Rounds: Graded on Process, Not Just the Answer12 min read
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Market-Making Games and Betting Rounds: Pricing Under Uncertainty in Real Time12 min read
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Coding and Systems Rounds for Quants: Data Structures, Latency and the C++ vs Python Question11 min read
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Research Presentations and Take-Home Projects: The Bar for a Senior Hire11 min read
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Fit and Risk-Attitude Rounds: Ownership, Loss Behaviour and the Red Flags That End a Loop10 min read
Chapter 4: Training a New Quant: The First Twelve Months
4 Lessons▶
Bootcamp Design: What Firms Teach in Weeks One to Eight and Why11 min read
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Simulators, Paper Books and Graduated Risk Limits: Earning the Right to Trade Real Capital11 min read
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The Apprenticeship Model: Desk Mentorship, Feedback Loops and Post-Mortems10 min read
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Evaluation Gates: How Firms Decide Who Gets Capital, Who Gets More Time and Who Gets Cut12 min read