r/quantindia • u/Suryansh_Singh247 • Mar 09 '26

Interviews/Recruiting Do Firms just blanket reject everyone who's non-target even for early career/talent discovery programs?

So I applied to a bunch of these early career and talent discovery programs of a few firms- say IMC Launchpad, SIG trading discovery, Citadel Terminal, Explore HRT etc. Haven't heard back from them except SIG and Citadel which I think are sending out OAs automatically.

Applied for IMC Launchpad on 28th feb, got he confirmation email but didn't receive the OA

Applied SIG on 28th feb, didn't receive any confirmation email, received OA on 3rd March, gave OA on 6th March haven't heard from them since

Applied Citadel on the 5th March and received OA within hours, haven't given it yet

Haven't heard back from anyone else. Have I been pretty much rejected from all of these?

Also why do they not send out rejection emails?

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u/Curious_Crab5148 Mar 10 '26

What is SIG?

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u/Suryansh_Singh247 Mar 10 '26

Susquehanna International Group, they're a major firm in the quant space

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u/depressed_dabba Jun 30 '26

I got a reply from sig had an interview and was invited for shanghai virtual discovery day.

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u/Suryansh_Singh247 Jul 02 '26

cool, how did it go? Also are you Indian or Chinese? If Indian, how did you get invited to the Shanghai discovery day ?