#1: How My 20-Year-Old Brother Made $550,000/Year in Quant Trading
Sponsored by BeamJobs — visit https://www.beamjobs.com/resume-checker?via=aman to access the free AI resume checker and take your resume to the next level. Sign up to my email newsletter: https://www.amanmanazir.com/newsletter Aadil Manazir is my younger brother. In this episode, we discuss how he landed a $500,000+/year job offer in quant trading at age 20, how he secured a Google software engineering internship (and turned it down) in his free time, and how he packed on 30+ lbs of muscle and much, much more. 00:00 - Introduction 01:00 - 8th Grade MathCounts 05:29 - American Mathematics Competition 06:16 - High School Math Club 08:29 - Elite Math Summer Camps 12:36 - Writing a Great Software Resume: BeamJobs 13:47 - Summer Research Camp 15:28 - Why Aadil Picked the University of California Berkeley 18:25 - Transition to College Life 23:20 - Aadil’s Introduction to Software and Quant Internships 27:18 - John Deere Software Internship 31:15 - Aadil’s Sophomore Year 32:10 - Aadil’s Grind to Land a Quant Internship: 60 Interviews 38:20 - Aadil’s Reaction at Getting a $130/hour Quant Internship at IMC Trading 43:40 - Aadil’s Experience Working at IMC Trading 47:30 - How Aadil Landed a Jump Trading Internship 54:50 - Aadil’s $500k+ Quant Salary 56:20 - How Aadil Got a Google Software Internship for Fun 58:22 - How to Become a Quant 1:00:55 - How to Prepare for Software Engineering Interviews 1:04:22 - The Value of Obsession 1:07:27 - You Don’t Need to Be a Genius 1:09:20 - How Self-Improvement Changed Our Lives 1:18:40 - Aadil’s Gym Transformation Story: Adding 30 lbs of Muscle 1:22:13 - How Looksmaxxing Changed Aadil’s Life 1:29:50 - Was Bodybuilding and Looksmaxxing Worth It? 1:35:30 - What’s Next for Aadil?