Barclay's Global

QuantJeremy · April 15th, 2003, 2:10 pm

Anyone know anything about the reputation of Barclay's as a quant shop? Heard anything?

jfuqua · January 18th, 2007, 9:10 pm

'Outsmarting the Market:Behind Barclays quest to build a world-class team of academic quants that systematically does the impossible.' Business Week article Jan22, 2007. Mostly about Barclay's Global.Article currently free online at www.businessweek.com under the Magazine 'tab'

imsky · January 19th, 2007, 2:43 pm

See also the latest Bloomberg magazine

KackToodles · January 19th, 2007, 3:10 pm

QuoteOriginally posted by: QuantJeremyAnyone know anything about the reputation of Barclay's as a quant shop? Heard anything?It's the "MacDonalds'" of quant shops?

lugos · February 6th, 2007, 7:40 pm

QuoteOriginally posted by: KackToodlesQuoteOriginally posted by: QuantJeremyAnyone know anything about the reputation of Barclay's as a quant shop? Heard anything?It's the "MacDonalds'" of quant shops?Erm, how is that? Cheap double burgers? Lots of trans fats? I have a couple of former coworker chums there who are outrageously happy with the place (Bar Gobal anyway). It looks a little compartmentalized and ponderous (they say you're not going to be a jack of all trades there), but it seems to be a model which works for them.

spice · February 6th, 2007, 8:37 pm

Yeah, read last month's Bloomberg magazine!!!It's the world's largest pure quant shop, at least on the buy-side, I would think?

DominicConnor · February 7th, 2007, 7:18 am

Certainly on the quant side Barclays is doing some of the right stuff.But what about the quant developers ? Not so sure it will end well.

KackToodles · February 8th, 2007, 9:20 pm

QuoteOriginally posted by: spiceIt's the world's largest pure quant shop, at least on the buy-side, I would think?is large good? At some point, they will surely weed out some of their aggressive new hiring pool using massive layoffs that all giant coroporations use. Wall Street runs in cycles and it won't be long before the next down cycle. How is the industry going to absorb so many laid off people? How do quant skills tranfer back to other industries, like real world programming?

spaceinvader · February 9th, 2007, 1:16 am