Things are a little different if you want a job as a quant than a software developer, though.
The tech and engineering discipline are always going to be worst than FAANG or one of the darling startups. That's part of what they pay the big bucks for, to minimize attrition. The flipside is that you can have an outsized impact you probably can't at a FAANG. These are the qualities you want to emphasize to get hired from industry. Hedge funds hire a lot of green kids out of good colleges so you need to bring something to the table more than just being a smart person.
It's also probably not super helpful to you right now but the industry is pretty small. Once you've had success at one hedge fund it's pretty easy to get interviews at the others.
This all varies firm to firm though, especially depending on what kind of trading they do.