QuoteOriginally posted by: EscapeArtist999Chaotic, is it at least a 9-5 job for that kind of money?Well from what I know so far, it is more like 8-6...but weekends are free.

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: LTrain >> I just got a phone interview request for the Bloomberg interest rate >> derivatives quant internship. I was wondering what types of questions I >> should expect on a phone interview.Internship?? Means you get the privilege of working at slave wages AND the opp...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: ArthurDentQuoteOriginally posted by: chaoticrambler Base is 95K. Bonus is 10-15k.In other words, Bloomberg is paying 2nd tier Software industry wages - top tier s/w comp at Microsoft/Google/Yahoo/Facebook is 110k + 50k bonus for PhD with no experience.50 k bonus for no ...

QuoteOriginally posted by: KackToodleshow much do they pay? $65K plus $10K bonus? Base is 95K. Bonus is 10-15k.

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: drews26QuoteOriginally posted by: chaoticramblerQuoteOriginally posted by: drews26I cannot think of and have never seen any finance job which couldn't be done by a smart undegrad (in terms of level of math, finance or IT skills required). Especially now when people don'...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: drews26I cannot think of and have never seen any finance job which couldn't be done by a smart undegrad (in terms of level of math, finance or IT skills required). Especially now when people don't care that much about structured/exotic products and banks make most of th...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: APSQuoteSome people may tell you that Ph.D. doesn't matter, only how good you are matters and how difficult it is to replace you. In a downturn everybody is replaceable. Managers don't like to fire people, they hate it. It's difficult to decide who to fire when you have...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: sudhee2uHi,How good are the options of pursuing PhD in Indian Universities. I just came across Phd programmes in Birla Institute of Technology and science. The phd programme is on Financial Engineering.Does it atleast provide an interview call form international compani...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: CosteanuCorrection:E[f(X)^2 + f'(X)^2] >=cwhere c is a constant that is not necessarily 1. I just found a function for which this expected value is roughly 0.641. The function is f(x) = exp(-lambda*abs(x)) where lambda is approximately 0.672. Now, the constant I was abl...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: EEGradI second him. My own school always interviewed from the top 3, a lot of the candidates were just well connected while their research was very lacklustre. Some of them also got offers to the amazement of a lot of us grad students.My school is ranked in top 20 in en...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: ChicagoGuyQuoteOriginally posted by: chaoticramblerQuoteOriginally posted by: traderjoe1976Just to make things clear, the link below provides the placement of the Accounting PhDs from UT-Austin.PhD PlacementAs you can see they get positions in the Business schools at Ha...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: traderjoe1976Just to make things clear, the link below provides the placement of the Accounting PhDs from UT-Austin.PhD PlacementAs you can see they get positions in the Business schools at Harvard, Standford, Wharton, Dartmouth, Duke, CMU etc.From my batch, I know PhD ...

QuoteOriginally posted by: EEGradCan you put down escorts as a business expense?R rated R&R

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: MatthewMQuoteThe rankings remain the same more or less every year because of obvious reasons that no school can become crappy or awesome in one year. IIRC, the rankings for PhD programs in physics have literally not been updated since 1999/2000 Rankings for undergrads a...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: EEGradQuoteOriginally posted by: twofishQuoteOriginally posted by: EEGradThere must be some mistake Texas Austin is one of the top research schools at least in EE it was ranked #10 in 2008What happened once you looked into the numbers was that phds.org looked at the num...