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Re:In Battle to Recruit New Quants, Hedge Funds Outpay Banks by anonu on Sunday December 29, 2019 @07:21PM (#21909683)
wth is a master quant? and why would anyone refer to themselves as such?
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Re:In Battle to Recruit New Quants, Hedge Funds Outpay Banks by xchaotic on Sunday December 29, 2019 @06:02PM (#21909252)
Is the job repetitive ? What % of work is solving Math and coding and how much PowerPoint ?
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Re:In Battle to Recruit New Quants, Hedge Funds Outpay Banks by gentaro on Sunday December 29, 2019 @05:58PM (#21909216)
How much do you get paid?
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Re:In Battle to Recruit New Quants, Hedge Funds Outpay Banks by XMPPwocky on Sunday December 29, 2019 @05:56PM (#21909205)
...they just did!
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Re:In Battle to Recruit New Quants, Hedge Funds Outpay Banks by computer_czar on Sunday December 29, 2019 @05:56PM (#21909203)
What's your education background?
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Re:In Battle to Recruit New Quants, Hedge Funds Outpay Banks by Nostra on Sunday December 29, 2019 @05:58PM (#21909219)
Math, advance geometry, CS
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Re:In Battle to Recruit New Quants, Hedge Funds Outpay Banks by pretendscholar on Sunday December 29, 2019 @06:07PM (#21909279)
Isn't math, advanced geometry redundant?
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Re:In Battle to Recruit New Quants, Hedge Funds Outpay Banks by millstone on Sunday December 29, 2019 @11:04PM (#21910725)
No: topology, analysis, number theory, etc.
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Re:In Battle to Recruit New Quants, Hedge Funds Outpay Banks by anonu on Sunday December 29, 2019 @07:23PM (#21909686)
advanced geometry? what about advanced arithmetic? I hear thats a much needed discipline.
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Re:In Battle to Recruit New Quants, Hedge Funds Outpay Banks by CoryG89 on Sunday December 29, 2019 @06:40PM (#21909450)
Can you get me one of those million dollar jobs referred to in the article?

I've only got a bachelor's degree in software engineering, but I've been doing data science(ish) at my job since I graduated.

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