<t>Hi, My job is to support fixed income volatility traders in a hedge fund.This involves implementing new models, Pnl / risk calculations, scenarioanalysis and so on. I have good exposures to the valuation and hedgingof various interest rate vol products. Coming from a mathematical financebackgroun...

<t>Hi noexpert, I took the paper test a while ago. I spend a day on that and thought I did really bad. But head huntersaid I passed the paper test and then I did a phone interview with them. I think I finished 80% of the questions. The math part is very difficult. The programming part is trivial. Th...

<t>In IBs, quants and quant developers are very different jobs. However, in a hedge fund,is it still the case? I am going to a quant / analytics team in a hedge fund, is it possiblethat I'll end up doing only programming/technology work?I am not from computer science background.Thanks for any input....

1. Fixed income research and analytics group within a good hedge fund (5 billion), work side by side with traders;2. Prime brokerage within top IB.Can you give me some thoughts regarding the future career and mobility of thesetwo jobs? Thanks a lot.

<t>Hi dhan16, I just applied from their website. Hi idicandoidicando, I already finished my interviews with them. Most interview questions were based on my resume. They alsoasked some puzzles and your understanding of the market(be sure to know what's going on in the financial market).Good luck. </t>

Does anybody know about this group? How is the career path there?This group is sort of a quant group, but I feel it's quite different fromthose quants on trading floor. I know Prime Brokerage doesn't involve tradings, is it a promising area to work for?Thanks a lot for any inputs.

<t>Hi, I have some questions about this group: Is it like a buy-side front desk quant? Or it's more like a quant develper group? Do they interact with traders a lot? Is the career path promising?Do you have any opinion about the typical salary/bonuses in this group after a few years compared to othe...

I heard that sell-side quant will also work on trading floor... If we only talk about the placement rate, no matter the job is a trader of quant, which program is better, CMU or NYU?