I agree with the programming skill, for most kinds of quants.Yes, there are many kinds of quants. Which one do you think is most promising?

I agree that the soft skills e.g., comm skill are important. How about knowledge? What knowledge is important and useful?

<t>The finance industry is experiencing lots of changes after the crisis. As a very junior quant, I am thinking what skills I should train myself on. I hope people here can share some ideas. I am in an IB in NYC.For sell side, traditional quants do derivatives pricing modeling. How important is the ...

One thing to note is that, although the C++ standard says operator[] of vector does not check if it is out of bound, the implementation in VC2010 under debug mode does check that, which could be a performance problem (compared to array) when you are using the Debug mode. Release is OK

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: linguafrancaQuoteOriginally posted by: AbhiJIt is very easy to say "Join MS/Google".Getting a job in QF is much easier than MS/Google. In real world MS/Google would hire mainly CS people whereas QF could hire who know bit of everything.this is simply wrong. do u have an...

Thanks a lot for your advice. I will keep going.I find that to be a good candidate for a quant, one needs to know a lot of knowledge/skills in several disciplines, math/programming/finance, lots of things to learn, to prepare.

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: mrmisterYou are in the kill zone if you can live up to what you have written below. Interviews should not be hard to come by as you seem to be a competent C++ programmer.Thanks for your reply.One thing I am wondering is, what is the requirement of Linux for C++ programm...

<t>I am an engineering phd student in the fourth year and I plan to find quant finance-related job in 2011 in the US (might consider UK or Hong Kong also). But I am having confusions and hesitations about what I should do at this time. I am NOT from an Ivy school, although my school does have not-ba...

Could anyone give some names of the prop trading firms in Chicago? I only know Citadel and DRW... I am a phd in engineering and interested in programming opportunities. Thanks.