<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: spiderwasp What advantage does a PhD in an unrelated field provide over a straight out MFE? And at the risk of going on about it for too long, I guess I could have returned back to do a mathematics PhD (even considered it)... but it wasn't clear to me why spending 3 yea...

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<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: faltuThank you all for your reply.Earlier ,I thought of applying to top schools like Princeton,Cornell,Columbia in their OR/FE department ,since it matches with my Master's background of OR/IE.But most of my friends said that its impossible to break into these schools w...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: arsjayYou might like to further dig up, so I have put my resume online.It can be found hereSoham You will never get an interview call with this resume. You are in the wrong place(What are u doing in Assam?). You don't have any big names in your resume(you are not from a...

<r>QuoteOriginally posted by: arsjayQuoteThe thing I found out that most people who don't attend these premier institutes don't have the exposure to think beyond the obvious , thus they tend to settle for less.I absolutely second this. Far better than anything else in IIT/IIM is the tremendous ecosy...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: Cuchulainn I find the you tube videos unreadable in general. A full professional video system is needed (and a great lecturer imo). You tube is fine for your favourite music but is hardly a professional medium, yes? You can download youtube videos to any format you want...

<r>QuoteOriginally posted by: samkhalilianThe standford course cost minimum of $50k. This is a lot for on online course?Why do you want to pay $50k. The video lectures from Indian Institutes of Technology are available for free <URL url="http://www.nptel.iitm.ac.in/courses.php?branch=Comp">http://ww...

QuoteOriginally posted by: KackToodlesQuoteOriginally posted by: ArthurDentwhat do you do next? i think people keep re-starting the process every time they change jobs. why is it only india/china/mexico? why do russians/czechs/canadians get a separate line? FROM RUSSIA WITH $$

<t>The inescapable truth is that quant finance education is a very tough field and that only a few institutions can truly offer top-notch programs. Quant finance, simply put, is not for everyone. It’s only for VIPs — for those rare individuals who not only possess the necessary mathematical and comp...

I think your 7 years of IT experience is NOT in C++? It will be very difficult to get something without C++ experience.

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: albertmillsAnyone have experience with a H-1B transfer?Shortly after I told my current employer I wanted to quit, another company told me they were interested. My current employer gave me two weeks to think things over (they don't know about interest from the other comp...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: astoria1938Yes. But would that make it the right move? I feel that maintaining a full-time development position (full life cycle) is better experience than just supporting a production system. But is it the right move if the product exposes me to trading applications?Yo...

QuoteOriginally posted by: astoria1938The vendor is SunGard which is well-known in the industry but the job is more on the side of supporting the existing product. Which product you will be supporting? Is it Brass?

<t>Quote I don't have any involvement in strategy creation or even programming the strategies.Because there are smarter people in the firm to do those jobs.QuoteBasically, our firm is very "siloed". Everyone works in almost near isolation. I haven't learned anything about the business itself---I eff...