$90k for three months’ work: how Citadel gets the best graduates

To intern at Ken Griffin’s hedge funds, graduates get lured with luxury hotels and massive salaries, but they have to beat 69,000 others for the privilege.

Lulu Yilun Chen

Sep 3, 2023 – 1.43pm

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In a hotel ballroom overlooking the South China Sea, 24-year-old Taylor sits with 13 other university students in hoodies and sneakers coding away on laptops during their school break.

The two jacked-up security guards sitting outside the hall signal this is no ordinary summer camp: the students flew business class from as far away as California and Singapore to spend several nights at the five-star Fullerton Ocean Park Hotel in Hong Kong. Trays of crab meat salad, mini croque monsieurs and skewers of prosciutto and melon sit nearby.

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