> With regard to entering the industry, it's pretty hierarchical, and can be siloed: techies do tech, traders do trading, and there's not much crossover. Not r

> With regard to entering the industry, it's pretty hierarchical, and can be siloed: techies do tech, traders do trading, and there's not much crossover. Not really true. It's true that there are software roles that don't interact with strategy much, and often traders/quants that don't do much proper software. But in many places the line can be very blurry. > The most reliable way of entering the industry is to get on a graduate program and work your way up. Failing that, a quantitative PhD might get a hedge fund or HFT interested. HFTs and hedge funds all hire of plenty of new grads and experienced-but-not-PhDs doing quant/trading style work - Hudson River, Jane Street, Two Sigma, Tower, I think Citadel all will.