Quantitative Research Internship Review
at G-Research
Internship (1 Month+)
Research
London
Review Submitted: January 2024
Overall Rating
5 /5
The Overall Rating is the average of all the ratings given in each category. We take those individual ratings and combine them into one final score!
5/5
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Overview of Role
5/5
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Skills Development
5/5
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Support and Guidance
5/5
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Company Culture
5/5
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Overall Experience
5/5
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Future Career Prospects
Overview of Role
Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
I was an intern in the high frequency trading team. I was given tabular data of finance data and had to create Machine Learning models to create a trading strategy by detecting signal in the data.
Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
Responsibilities are hard to define in a research environment. However I was given a lot of freedom in my research, and how I wanted to tackle the problem which is a very positive characteristic of this internship that I greatly appreciated.
Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was
5/5
Skills Development
Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
I have developed skills in coding (python), and training ML models. I have used a lot of tabular data and have developed deeper knowledge of the corresponding python modules. I have moreover acquired knowledge in finance and especially on quantitative hedge funds.
How would you rate the training provided during your experience?
5/5
How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?
5/5
How would you rate your development of personal / soft skills during the experience?
5/5
Please rate how these skills have helped you in your career development
5/5
Support and Guidance
How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?
The internship was very well supervised. Each intern had a mentor who greatly supervised and had a lot of time to discuss the project. The supervisor did let me free in my research while helpig me a lot and putting me in contact with the good person in the company.
How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?
5/5
How would you rate the support and guidance from the wider team?
5/5
Company Culture
What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?
The athmosphere was very warm and welcoming. There is barista inside the company where I could have a coffee while discussing with people from my branch or other branches. There was a lot of supervisoon from HR who regularly gave snacks. The projects given to the intern were very interesting.
How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
5/5
How would you rate the social opportunities?
5/5
How would you rate the diversity initiatives?
5/5
How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?
5/5
Overall Experience
To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
I really enjoyed the internship. First, it was a great opportunity to discover London as an international student as the work-life balance was very healthy. Moreover, inside the company, both the fact that the project were interesting and that the athmosphere was great made me really enjoy my time in this company as an intern.
Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
5/5
Please rate how your experience met your expectations
5/5
Future Career Prospects
Please rate the future employment prospects at G-Research
5/5
Recommendations & Advice
Would you recommend G-Research to a friend?
Yes
What advice would you give to others applying to G-Research
The interviews can be numerous and tough so be prepared to them. Apart from passing the interviews I don't think there is any requirement or advice I could give since the company welcome new interns extremely well.
