China Quant Funds Push Campus Hiring, Top Packages Reach 800,000 Yuan

The shift toward science and engineering backgrounds over traditional finance training signals that quant funds increasingly view modeling capability, not market pedigree, as the scarce input. That reframes campus recruiting as a technology talent contest competing with big tech, which is why packages at this level appear. The open question is whether this bidding intensity persists if quant fund performance or fundraising cools, and whether the finance-major requirement stays dropped across the industry or remains a single-firm experiment.