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By Shayan, 3 weeks ago, In English

Hello Codeforces,

It’s been a long time since we announced my interview with Reyna.

One question that always comes up is: what comes after learning and excelling in competitive programming? Is it really possible to land a well-paid job after reaching a high level in CP? In this interview, Arash tries to answer this question.

Arash owns a Gold and a Silver medal in IOI. He has also participated in a lot of onsite competitions. In this interview, he talks about his thoughts on competitive programming, his journey, and how he learned competitive programming.

Right now, Arash works as a quantitative researcher and earns more than $500,000 per year. He believes that this field is one of the most suitable fields for top competitive programmers, and having a great CP background helps a lot to land a job in the field. He talks about his job, how he got into the field, how others might land a job in this field, and how well-paid this field is. He also shares his recent investment in an AI startup.

More interestingly, Arash and I attended the same school. He was our upperclassman and later became our teacher after winning a national gold medal. We share a lot of memories together, and we talk about some funny ones in the interview!

I hope you find this interview enjoyable. You can find the trailer of the interview below.

Trailer

And here is the full interview:

Full Interview Video

PS: As always, feel free to suggest who you’d like me to interview in the comments below.​

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Ahaha, where did 200,000$ evaporated? xD (title said 700,000$ initially)

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Can you explain in very easy way what is quantitative researcher and what they do.I searched in google but I can not understand it because my english a little bit bad. THANKS

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Bro was so close to LGM once.

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Very interesting interview. Thank you!

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Reyna the GOAT

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Thanks , it was a very educational interview for both competitive programmers and people thinking about quant. keep up the good work!

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Orz