Yeah i think this is accurate, this was actually an HFT firm, and was a prop shop not a hedge fund. They need to weed out people who are there purely for the mo

Yeah i think this is accurate, this was actually an HFT firm, and was a prop shop not a hedge fund. They need to weed out people who are there purely for the money. He was kind of describing how the CTO's brain never stops thinking about coding, and when hes in bed at night, hes imagining how to apply a design pattern to a problem at hand. In some ways, they wanted people who would not stop working and were obsessed with the problem space