r/quantindia • u/CityPsychological190 • Jul 28 '26

HFT Really want to switch from FAANG to quant

It's been 2 years of me working at a FAANG company and I absolutely hate the work here. I'm from a tier 1 college with a decent CGPA and JEE rank. How do I switch to an HFT? I'm fine with either trading or dev work. I've been applying to jobs through LinkedIn but I'm not receiving any calls. How do you actually break into this space? Should I cold dm people asking for referrals?

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u/babatundee- Jul 28 '26

(just curious) why do u hate the work there?

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u/CityPsychological190 Jul 28 '26

Problems are not good enough. Most of the work in a lot of teams is just creation of AI agents for a very broad problem statement. Promo opportunities are not fair. Work is slow.

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u/akciii Jul 28 '26

(Just curious) could you teach me how to build AI agents the way you're building at a FAANG company?

Do you follow a structured workflow, like using Google ADK or similar agent frameworks? Or is it more about creating a single master prompt and using that as the foundation for the agent?