<t>I am not sure whether this is helpful or not, but I know for a fact that there is at least one other person who has had a verbal offer for the same London job you are applying to (this is the FICC one right? - trying to crossreference with other posts you made). They might well be looking to make...

If you transform a BS PDE into a heat equation the 'time' variable effectively runs backwards, hence a final BS condition will be an initial heat equation condition.

Poor Joe Lewis ...

Ok well first of all the HH will take nothing from you, but from the bank. So you don't need to worry about that.You should really discuss this with your HH. Have you been sent any paperwork yet?

Is it associate or analyst level?

<t>Hull is definitely something you should read, but probably not cover to cover. I has everything in it but no real theme that leads you through it. I would use it more as a reference book.A good introduction might be Baxter and Rennie: Financial Calculus - this book is very martingale-focussed, wh...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: HinstingsThis list is funny. I understand that it is never easy to justify a list. However, this list is really tooooooooo unstable to be of any information. Just look at this: last year this yearMerryll Lynch 18 1Credit Suisse 56 4Bank of America 33 7Daiwa 3 16I rest m...

<t>The problem with ranking is always that it doesn't tell you whether the difference between two entries in a ranked list is significant or not. For all we know the error bars could overlap hugely between two of them and it is likely to be the case considering how different lists give different ran...

<t>Differential equations (at least the ODEs), probability and linear algebra is all fairly standard undergraduate stuff and here are a host of books out there. You might not even need books, just google for some online lecture notes on these topics.PDEs and Stochastic Calculus is slightly harder, t...

I was merely translating the previous post into something more obvious. There was no mention of 800 candidates, but only 8. vbprogrammer might well have been better than either of the other two.

Imagine you have 8 boxes, and are tasked to find the two with the largest amount of money inside. Do you stop after only opening 7?

<t>I agree with DCFC here. Try a google search for Slang (the language!) and you come up with pretty much nothing at all. That is a sure sign that it is of no use to the outside world.The question you have to ask yourself now is, do you want a longterm career in GS. If you do, all is fine, learn Sla...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: DCFCI fear that I can't see a horror story here at all, is there some other information ?Phone screens are a first cut, it is of course good to pass them, but it's hardly a guarantee of a job.Also it is not really always a pass/fail thing, some candidates may come acros...

Is that your ranking?

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: PrincipalStratDo you know how many experienced quants are jobless at the moment? Most of them graduated from top universities, being smart and strong in math and programming.No, I don't. I am not a quant, I am an academic, but I have a constant stream of students going ...