<t>Unfortunately flank plans to take monetary policy class instead of econometrics. A phd in high energy physics spends five, six years analyzing terra bytes of data by C++ programs they wrote themselves. Folks in Mech.Eng. solves PDE with finite element day in and day out, so finite difference is l...

co-ask. also who are the biggest players in IR; Credit deriv.; and FX? in terms of volume, P&L? is there a collection of "league table" broken down by market sectors?thanks

<t>Hi, I m physics back ground, recently landed a quant job. I read some of the books you listed and hope can help by relating to my interview experiences.like Janitor said, given you are a phd in finance, and did williams, oksendal and steele, I believe you don't have any problem with stoch calc. a...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: cosineI've found from my programming experience that the more I learn a vast scope of languages, the deeper I go in my knowledge of the mechanics of their compilation or interpretation, and the more experience I have in using them, all lead to an increase in first attem...

<t>I think those senior economists are not quants and each bank just has to have a few. a few that is, as appose to a few hundred quants. those senior economists must be able to attend meetings with bernanke and alike, have lunch with the president, interview with CNN, so you better be good if you a...

<t>it s only a statistical statement. and here "ivys" probably means ivy-equil, which include mit,berk,caltech,chicago, in the mean time the phd program in some ivys are not considered strong. I did meet people from UCLA. the phys. dept. of UIUC offers a finance minor so I imagine a lot of UIUC'ers ...

<t>It is amusing to see some one so hard to convince even with actual facts. Maybe eventual reality will do.top school or not aside, search "physics" in this career forum returns two pageful of threads, search "phd", guess what, 11 pages. and that does not include the spelling "ph.d.". that says som...

At goldman sachs, quants belong to the FICC strategy group and their job title is strategist. some 500 of them. including sale strats. some other companies use similar title.

<t>I hope in the end, I give something useful on this matter.I think it probably is a better idea to just contact a couple head hunters. Not huxley's kind but small few-person firm. I found many of them are actually friendly, willing to spend fifteen minutes to talk and answer your questions, give y...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: twofishQuoteOriginally posted by: whaleThough I do not agree with twofish on that top tier school students tend to be more risk averse. I guess you can also say they have bigger ego so tend to be (over)confident therefore tend to take on more risk. Either way, this is j...

<t>In my case, about 10 resumes, interviewed with 4 banks, 4 offers. I believe my "USDA" stamp played a role to get me interviews among candidates with similar qualifications. Compared to Dr. Wang's experience, I think he faced additional burden to proove himself during his active job searching. Not...

<t>Though I do not agree with twofish on that top tier school students tend to be more risk averse. I guess you can also say they have bigger ego so tend to be (over)confident therefore tend to take on more risk. Either way, this is just personal prejudice in my humble opinion.on the other hand, I a...

<t>I had my share of interviews with a few major I-Banks on the street, a large fraction of the people I met came from a small number of universitys, the ones being with H,P,Y,S and the two institutes. strangely, I have yet met one from that public school on west coast yet. I myself spent time in a ...