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In your experience, are quant firms bothered about whether the STEM PhD had anything to do with finance? I'm considering trying to get into the field when I fi
by bovine3dom 7y ago
In your experience, are quant firms bothered about whether the STEM PhD had anything to do with finance?
I'm considering trying to get into the field when I finish my Comp Sci PhD in a few months. I'm a little worried that my sole explicit financial qualification is that I really enjoyed a course on Black-Scholes towards the end of my undergraduate in Physics, although I probably would word that slightly differently on a CV.
- evanpw 7y agoProbably a preference for non-finance fields of study. Might be different at hedge funds doing longer-term trading, but at the short end, academic finance is very far from anything being done in practice.
- bovine3dom 7y agoAh, that's great to know. Thanks for taking the time to reply!