Practice Drills: Structuring a Quant Team Hiring and Evaluation Framework

A hands-on drill course for senior quants, systematic fund manager aspirants and prop desk leads. Most quant teams are hired on gut feel and judged on last quarter's PnL, and both habits are expensive. Here you build the whole system yourself on realistic Indian cases: mapping a strategy to the roles it needs, sizing headcount against AUM and fee revenue, writing role scorecards, building a sourcing funnel, setting compensation bands, designing a probability screen, a take-home research case on NSE data and a coding test, calibrating interviewers, measuring pipeline quality, setting research KPIs that do not reward overfitting, attributing desk PnL to individuals, designing deferred bonus pools with clawback, and handling IP, personal trading and SEBI algo obligations. Every drill is worked with the numbers shown, and the capstone is a full hiring and evaluation framework for a ₹500 crore systematic fund.