<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: exCBOEQuoteOriginally posted by: royalflushHi,there is one thing that I realy do not understand. 1. Whenever I do a trade on a listed market like XETRA or EUREX the transaction goes STP into my riskmanagement system. So there is no place for fraud as all processes are a...

<t>There really isn't any point talking to a firm if you have to pay for your own travelling expenses. If you are treated like dirt from the get-go, how do you expect them to treat you later on? If there is no reimbursement for interviewing expenses, will there be any relocation? If there is no relo...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: JQuoteOriginally posted by: playerIts only a short mater of time before post doc are what is required rather than PhD's....Indeed by 2010 you may well be seeing an increasing number of applications with min post docs.....Of course this is dependent on demand and supply ...

<t>I helped my company's quant group interview a couple of PhD's. I decided to reject them after five minutes of talk. Later I was surprised to learn than they were made offers anyway. The reason? "Well, I know they can't do anything for us, but we don't expect them to do anything anyway as long as ...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: energydude But I would certainly expect a good PhD (you can tell by publications etc) to have greater intellectual firepower on the average. Not necessarily. Obtaining a PhD has nothing to do with a person's intellectual firepower. Intellectual power is not obtained thr...