0:02 At the start of my degree, I had no idea
0:04 how to code. By the end of my first
0:06 year, I landed an intern offer at a qu trading
0:14 [Music]
0:17 firm. The story starts in
0:20 2022. Everyone around seems miles ahead.
0:22 The guy next to me is some kind of
0:24 genius. One night, I'm stuck, so I ask
0:27 him for help. Who does this guy think he
0:29 is? Being smart here wasn't enough.
0:32 Everyone was smart. I need something [Music]
0:35 [Music]
0:38 big. Two weeks later, I get a message
0:39 that my friend's friend just made it
0:42 into a trading firm. His grad salary
0:45 600,000. So, here's how it works. These
0:47 are hedge funds and banks. They want to
0:49 buy big, but they can't trade the normal
0:51 stock market like you and I because the
0:53 volumes are so big, it'll drive the
0:55 price around. That's where HFTs and
0:58 market makers come in. They give these
1:01 banks fixed prices for a specific volume
1:03 they want to trade. When HSDs do this
1:05 with two banks on opposite sides, they
1:08 keep the spread between making lucrative
1:10 amounts of money. I went through every
1:13 job portal. LinkedIn seek university
1:16 portal and I found it. The trading firm
1:20 discovery event 2 days. First round a
1:22 one-way interview. Why do companies even
1:25 have oneway interviews? Next, a phone
1:27 interview. I binged every online YouTube
1:31 video I could find. Practiced to sound
1:34 natural. The call comes in. 2 weeks
1:36 later, I'm at the discovery event.
1:40 Five-star hotel, meals, drinks,
1:42 everything. But when I get back home, I
1:44 realize the application I made to an
1:46 internship at Google got rejected. And
1:49 worse still, the person who sat next to
1:59 I guess you're
2:19 me. Heat. Heat. [Music]
2:48 [Music] [Applause]
2:50 [Applause] [Music]
3:00 Hi, this is Amelia from the Launchpad
3:02 event. Based on your performance, we
3:04 would like to fast track you to the
3:05 final round interviews for our internships.
3:07 internships.
3:11 This is it. I get this. I win. 200 hours
3:14 of prep, question after question. So,
3:16 I've just gotten back from the interview
3:19 and it has been very, very stressful,
3:24 but I think I've done just enough to
3:27 pull through. I think so. Um, we'll just
3:41 Hey, this is Amelia again. We would like
3:43 to offer you a role on our internship program.
