Every puzzle hides a twist. Every clue tests your team. Our Brainteaser Battle is a fun, fast-paced mix of quantitative reasoning and out-of-the-box thinking. Come ready to join a team and dig into a unique blend of puzzles designed by Susquehanna employees. Each member of the winning team will take home a $250 Amazon gift card. Come see if you have what it takes to solve it all!

This is a team-based event with 3-4 participants per team. Sign up as a full team, or sign up as 1-2 participants and we will assign you to a team. Spots are first come, first served. Prior to the start of the Brainteaser Battle, one of our Quants will give a brief overview of the quant trading industry and their work at Susquehanna. Free food will be provided!

This event is open to PhD students and postdocs in fields including Business and Finance, Computing, Information Science and Tech, Engineering and Manufacturing, Science and Biotechnology.

Register now:

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About Susquehanna:

Susquehanna is a global quantitative trading firm founded with an entrepreneurial mindset and a rigorous analytical approach to decision making. As one of the largest proprietary trading firms in the world, we trade our own capital at our own risk. We are experts in trading essentially all listed financial products and asset classes, with a focus on derivatives, and handle millions of transactions on exchanges around the world every day. While our presence in the market is broad, our trading desks are highly specialized, allowing for a deep understanding of the unique drivers of each product. Our expertise in probabilistic thinking and game theory combined with our focus on signal detection and low-latency performance have made Susquehanna one of the leading global market makers. By providing liquidity and ensuring competitive prices for buyers and sellers, Susquehanna plays a critical role in the financial markets.

About the host:

Careers Beyond Academia is in Cornell’s Graduate School Office of Career and Professional Development. Serving over 5000 doctoral and research master’s students in 100 fields of study, we provide resources and referrals, skill-building workshops and 1:1 consultations to empower you, and help you explore and try on different career options so you can set yourself apart from other candidates to succeed in the role of your dreams.

Susi Sturzenegger Varvayanis is Sr. Assoc. Dir., Graduate Industry Partnerships, where she dedicates her work to empowering graduate students to confidently navigate and thrive in diverse careers across employment sectors by working with alumni and employers who seek to recruit top talent. With a deeply interdisciplinary approach, her cross-sector career balances early-stage startup, academic and National Institutes of Health (NIH) research with extensive business and workforce development experience in the U.S. and abroad. She leverages her expertise across science, business, and academia to design innovative experiential learning that equips the next generation of scientists and scholars with the tools, confidence, and career agency to thrive across academia, industry, government and non-profits.

Date and time:

Date: Monday, October 26, 2026
Time: 5 PM–8 PM EDT
Modality: In-Person
Location: Snee Hall 2146