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Ah Quants. All the best shouting matches in my last office were between the Quants arguing over things that ultimately were a matter of taste. Proper storming o
by swish_bob 8y ago
Ah Quants. All the best shouting matches in my last office were between the Quants arguing over things that ultimately were a matter of taste. Proper storming out and slamming of doors arguments.
- jason_slack 8y agoThe math guys I interviewed with were totally awesome. We talked about strategy, pure arbitrage stuff, probability, Martingale vs Ant-Martingale, Turtle trading. It felt like a conversation at a coffee house. Then comes this guy in afterwards...
- busterarm 8y agoIn the short time that I worked at a quantitative hedge fund (all of 2007, basically), the quants were the absolute nicest, friendliest people in the whole company. If you were even slightly technical and curious, almost any of them would answer whatever questions you had and would casually shoot the shit about anything in their nerdy areas of interest. This in contrast with the one floor trader who repeatedly and forcefully kicked me while I was under his desk replacing the Bloomberg keyboard he spilled his Sprite all over...because 3 minutes and from half the building away wasn't a fast enough response time for him.
- swish_bob 8y agoI've known lovely quants. Can't think of any traders who were just plain nice. But their ability to (as frankly average programmers) get into shouting matches (in front of a room full of above average programmers) about shit that didn't matter? Never been beaten.
- coldcat 8y agoQuants are maybe math half-god but the bests I worked with are average programmer. Most of them are awful programmers, and it's not a problem as long as their code is only the prototype for cs engineer to implement in a better way.