Has anyone out there dealt with recruiters from DE Shaw? If so, what is Shaw's interview procedure?Thanks.

<t>This may be a foolish question, but do like what you do? It seems there are lot of cool problems in finance, more than I had ever imagined. (And you get to live in metropolitan ares like NYC, Boston, Chicago, or London, which is difficult if not impossible otherwise.) What prompted your change? <...

<t>If you don't mind me asking, what area of engineering did you study? What's your background? I'm a recent chemical engineering PhD graduate, and I'm curious how difficult it is to find a job as a quant. I'm a person with no financial background, but lot's of math/computational skills. If you came...

<t>I'm a recent chemical engineering PhD graduate and I would like to know if others like me were able to make the transition into quantitative finance? My background is in finite element modeling of free-surface and moving boundary flows, as well as coupled fluid-solid mechanics. I've done a lot of...