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That's me. I switched 3 years ago because I saw exactly this. I originally did it to gain more tech skills with the plan on going back into it, but I left and d
by lloyd-christmas 9y ago
That's me. I switched 3 years ago because I saw exactly this. I originally did it to gain more tech skills with the plan on going back into it, but I left and didn't go back. I took a bootcamp, and about 1/3 of my class were ex-wall street.
- corpMaverick 9y agoIn your opinion how hard is for average ex-wall street workers to pick up programming ?
- whatok 9y agoReally depends on what role they were in but the Bloomberg Excel API is very widely used along with VBA which I think can assist with some transition.
- lloyd-christmas 9y agoFinance is a huge industry. I can't really speak to the average, but I was a buy side equities trader. Technical: All of us are well versed in excel and have working knowledge of SQL. Going from VBA to ruby/javascript was pretty trivial. While I don't really consider college all that meaningful, most people had been STEM majors, so the non job-specific knowledge tends to have some overlap. I was a math/econ double major with a stats minor. Had I dropped 2 econ courses and taken data structures + computer architecture, I would have had a minor in CS. The rest of the minor overlapped with my math/stats. Work-life: Finance is a very hard-working industry and had a ton of continuing education, so that transition was extremely easy to the tech life. I previously worked 60-80 hours a week (dependent on earnings season) and went from that to 50 hours. All that free time went towards a few hours of extra sleep and MOOC work to catch up on some of the more fundamental CS concepts.