<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: KackToodlesQuoteOriginally posted by: JackShengVery good firm, tough interview tho. They got spectacular performance last year, by the way. the more spectacular the performance, the faster they will crash. Not necessarily true,Renaissance is a good example, strong retur...

<t>A couple of straight statements to try and wrap this up and ensure google's precious cache contains useful information :* I don't recommend linux to everyone, only those looking for specific qualities which match up with those i know linux can provide.* NDISwrapper is not a general wrapper for ge...

<t>well bostonquant is correct to say that he has used a windows driver under Linux but this can only be done for specific purposes, wifi is an example. I said you are 'more correct' because, as you say, these specific cases don't imply that you can do this with any windows driver. Like I said befor...

<t>BBGs data isn't organized as you'd expect. It's fragmented and locationally independent. Just because there's some info on one page doesn't mean that data has been exposed in the correct manner to the API. The best you can do is ask the support to put in a ticket for it to be added so a dev will ...

Ganglia if you want to be able to scale itI'm sure you can google it yourselves

<t>I think what you are referring to bostonquant is a wrapper called NDISwrapper which maps the interface that the windows driver for your wifi card presents to that which the Linux kernel requires (the kernel looks for symbols like module_load to init the driver whey you morprobe/insmod it inro you...

<t>Computer technology discussions online always seem to end up in arguments with one person claiming they know more about it than the other. People should accept that there is always going to be others with greater knowledge than theirs in a specific area. We all seem to forget that when we say "I ...

<t>returning to the original post by Arteides:my observation of this industry is that alot of very gifted people approach it expecting to be pampered because of their abilities only to find that it is stuffed full of people with abilities that far exceed their own. The humilty to recognise early on ...

<t>if you're an experienced hire and you've been told its quant dev specifically then you'll be fine, even better if you've been told a specific team. If you're a grad hire then you could go anywhere in the business, not necesarily a quantitative area. We do have very old tech lying around as well a...

I was interviewing here until the day before this was announed when they "lost their headcount". I was annoyed at first but it seems like a lucky escape now

Quite simply... no, you don't need a PhD. It helps if you're exceptional in some way, awards, prizes, but a PhD is just one of the ways you can distinguish yourself.

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<t>I agree with dirtydroog, expand a little on the projects you've worked on with the languages mentioned. It shows whoever is looking at your CV that you've dealt with certain issues. What about other software topics than just languages (design patterns, OOD)? if you've used them then list them and...

maybe it is a NY London difference then.... Most of the guys I know have just excelled in quantitative courses and then taken junior trading positions.

They can be quick in my experience. I spoke to them for a role as interest rate derivatives structurer, just the phone interview, and they came back within a day. I didn't go further though, it wasn't really what I was looking for. Good luck with it Sam