<t>very funny. QuoteOriginally posted by: twofishQuoteOriginally posted by: DSPGuyThere are a few places that say they are looking for "high GPA's > 3.5".For undergraduate recruiting, GPA tend to be more important because there is little else to distinguish candidates. For graduate programs, no one ...

<t>Really?Then lessons learnedQuoteOriginally posted by: DevonFangsQuoteOriginally posted by: barnyI thought people just got a shit load of spam and fake positions if they posted on efinancialcareers?The positions are fake, but several recruiters called me after they have seen my cv uploaded in the ...

<t>me too. Totally no idea about why I was rejected? What the the hell with BB?Any ideas?QuoteOriginally posted by: DevonFangsI made the online test in C++ for a permanent (but junior) position. It was not so elementary, and even if the result was "proficient" I was rejected. No clue about why.What ...

totally agree!

<r>very useful tip w.r.t the salary expectation.thanksQuoteOriginally posted by: twofishQuoteOriginally posted by: eugwignerWhat are very long hours?60-70 hours a weekQuoteAlso if I held out for a front-office strat/quant role (as I am not in any hurry, and could wait and hone my finance knowledge) ...

<t>As you said before, the ad lies.Never trust the job ads QuoteOriginally posted by: twofishQuoteOriginally posted by: garifBasically one of the main reasons I turned down the job I referred to earlier is that the money they were talking about was literally 1/4 of what was being listed in adverts f...

<t>very helpful!. THANK YOU.QuoteOriginally posted by: twofishQuoteOriginally posted by: garifThe MSc course had a fair amount of finance and finance-relevant content, i.e. derivatives pricing, exotic options, Monte Carlo, binomial tree, equivalent Vega portfolios, caps, as well as cluster computing...

good luck. Im hunting too.

very helpful. I was thinking a lot to be a quant, now I have to double-think.

to be a real code monkey!