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Re:Programmers' salaries at Google $250k (and up) by Selvik on Sunday November 06, 2011 @02:27PM (#3203535)
What kind of backgrounds do they have? CS or STEM degrees at ivy league or similar schools? Does people with liberal arts degrees and a finance MBA get those kinds of jobs? (Assuming they can program.)
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Re:Programmers' salaries at Google $250k (and up) by stuntprogrammer on Sunday November 06, 2011 @02:42PM (#3203596)
CS/STEM. Need not be Ivy League but it certainly doesn't hurt-- though I know a team or two in the top tier that almost have a preference for non-ivy league :-)

To be a quantdev or quant, an MFE is far more useful than an MBA.

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Re:Programmers' salaries at Google $250k (and up) by jarek on Sunday November 06, 2011 @03:00PM (#3203641)
If you have a finance MBA and want to make money in finance, you'd be insane to try programming.
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