Inside Citadel's $19,000-a-month summer internship, where math whizzes are coached on everything from coding to drafting emails

Tue, 08/29/2023 - 10:56

Young woman giving lecture to interns - stock photo — Inside Citadel's $19,000-a-month summer internship, where interns are taught how to schmooze and are judged on the length of their emails.
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Hedge fund Citadel selected 300 candidates from a pool of 69,000 applicants for its summer internship.
These interns are flown out to luxury hotels and make over $19,000 a month.
They are assessed on everything, from their coding abilities to communicating skills, per Bloomberg.

Hedge fund Citadel and trading firm Citadel Securities run a highly-coveted summer internship program that runs for 11 weeks. It is an understatement to say it's tough to get in.