What programming language is used at Citadel?
Proficiency with one or more programming languages: Python, Linux, Perl, JavaScript, C, C++, C#, and R.
What is the point of using C?
C is an imperative procedural language. It was designed to be compiled to provide low-level access to memory and language constructs that map efficiently to machine instructions, all with minimal runtime support. Despite its low-level capabilities, the language was designed to encourage cross-platform programming.
What does Citadel do?
The firm is renamed “Citadel”, reflecting the firm’s strength as it expanded and diversified to more markets worldwide. Firm founded as Wellington Financial Group. Launches convertible bond arbitrage business. As a student at Harvard, Ken Griffin reads an article in Forbes that inspires him to begin trading convertible bonds.
Is Citadel a good hedge fund?
Crossing the $25 billion mark in investment capital, Citadel is named “Hedge Fund of the Year” by Institutional Investor and named one of the country’s 30 best workplaces in financial services and insurance by Great Place to Work. Ben Bernanke, former Chairman of the Federal Reserve, joins the firm as senior advisor.
What happened to Citadel’s credit rating?
In November and again in December 2008 Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services lowered its long-term and short-term counterparty credit ratings on Citadel Kensington Global Strategies Fund Ltd. and Citadel Wellington LLC “to just a notch above junk and then withdrew the ratings at the company’s request.”
What are the requirements to become a Citadel cadet?
Citadel cadets must meet the same height and weight requirements used by the U.S. Army. Once enrolled, potential cadets must pass a physical test of push-up repetitions, sit-up repetitions and a timed 2-mile (3.2-kilometer) run. (The Citadel lists exactly what those fitness standards are on its Web site .)