Hours?

twiceasnice · July 5th, 2010, 9:36 pm

Quants is a general term I know, but what kind of hours can a quant expect to work? Also is it generally 5 days a week like traders or do they work weekends too?Thanks.

kiwiman · July 5th, 2010, 9:49 pm

Typical FO quant in a bank: 08:30 - 19:00, sometimes longer, rarely weekends.

frenchX · July 6th, 2010, 5:01 am

From the Mark Joshi websiteQuoteHow hard does a quant work? This varies a lot. At RBS we got in between 8.30 and 9 and went home around 6pm. The pressure varied.Some of the American banks expect much longer hours. Wall St tendsto be more demanding than the City. In London 5 to 6 weeks holidaysis standard. In the US 2 to 3 is standard.

Cuchulainn · July 6th, 2010, 7:53 am

Quote In London 5 to 6 weeks holidaysThat's not bad. And it does not include bank holidays, world cup etc.

frenchX · July 6th, 2010, 9:28 am

QuoteOriginally posted by: CuchulainnQuote In London 5 to 6 weeks holidaysThat's not bad. And it does not include bank holidays, world cup etc.In France, national researchers in physics = 9 weeks of holidays. It is too much, a lot of researcher actually don't have time to take all their holidays.Classically in a private firm here it is 5 weeks.

yaourt · July 6th, 2010, 10:35 am

QuoteOriginally posted by: frenchXQuoteOriginally posted by: CuchulainnQuote In London 5 to 6 weeks holidaysThat's not bad. And it does not include bank holidays, world cup etc.In France, national researchers in physics = 9 weeks of holidays. It is too much, a lot of researcher actually don't have time to take all their holidays.Classically in a private firm here it is 5 weeks.in the financial industry in france, you typically have got 30 days + 10 extra days to compensate for overtime and other crap. 8 or 9 weeks are realistic