10-20% would be a realistic possibility.

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: HinstingsThere is a list compiled by VAULT every year. From their 2008 ranking of the most prestigious banks, excluding hedge funds and commercial banks, here is a list that I think makes a lot of sense. Of course, it also depends on the market sector such as equity, or...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: veeruthakurQuoteOriginally posted by: HinstingsQuoteOriginally posted by: vbprogrammer Congratulations Hinstings! Incidentally, what is your background? As far as the FX stretegist is concerned, I have a friend with GICS or somethng like that division. She is a strategi...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: HinstingsQuoteOriginally posted by: StephenLiQuoteOriginally posted by: HinstingsGot several offers. There are two among them that makes me feel hard to decide.One is for the mortgage quantitative (prepayment model) developer position of UBS Investment Bank. The other i...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: DCFCOne would need to know more about you and your work to sell you effectively, and to find jobs that you actually want.That is a non trivial effort, and the HH will not be all that happy if he does it, and then you take a job offered by someone else.That applies acros...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: smiesQuicksort is O(n log n), but for median selection (or, for that matter, any element selection), once you've partitioned the data you only need to look at one half of it each time, so you average n + n/2 + n/4 + ... operations, which is O(n).Perhaps I'm misinterpret...

<t>It is possible to get O(n) based on quicksort algorithm. In original quicksort you choose a pivot then swap data items so that you end up with all items greater than pivot on one side of the array, and all smaller on another side. Then apply the same method recursively on each of the two parts - ...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: gentinexAlthough "risk" usually does mean mid-office-type positions, I don't think StephenLi is right in this case, at least based on the descriptions that Credit Suisse gives. The RQA people do seem to be working closer to the traders, and it seems that the program is ...

<r>QuoteOriginally posted by: happyrainThen what's the difference between RQA or GMAG at Credit Suisse?My apologies, my previous post contains mistakes. Please refer to the following link for details.<URL url="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/grad/documents/credit-suisse1.pdf"><LINK_TEXT text="http://www.ci...

<t>In the paper "A new approximate swaption forumla in the LIBOR market model: an asymptotic expansion approach", Atsushi derives an approximate formula for European payer swaptions in the LIBOR market model.Has anyone here ever implemented this method to approximate the payer price (or applications...

<r>QuoteOriginally posted by: EBalI know it has probably been asked many times on this forum but I can't find it. How long does it usually take to get a UK visa through HSMP? I have a little over a year until I reach 6 years on an H1B. I am applying for a green card but want to explore alternatives ...

<t>Enough lies about "Quant Developer" from the banks and the HHs. It is just an IT developer role developing some wrappers and tools on top of the models delivered by the quants. IT developers do projects for front office, middle office or back office. A "Quant Developer" == an IT developer working...

QuoteOriginally posted by: drissationmmm good question...and u? did u apply somewehere?Are you asking whether DCFC has applied to an MSc programme?

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: airmenowI am in my finally year of Ph.D in Applied Math at an Ivy school in New York City, I hold MS.and B.S both in EE, more on statistical signal processing side. I wonder if I would like to find a derivative trader position or intership at some point, will a backgrou...