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Does Jane Street and similar firms hire Math or CS PhDs with backgrounds in theory?

• fractionalhare 6y ago
  Yes.
  • tony_goobret 6y ago
    What do the math or CS PhDs do at Jane Street? I don't know much about trading so I am curious.
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    • nwsm 6y ago
      If you're interested enough, read Gregory Zuckerman - "The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution" (2019) The first half of the book goes over the academic history of quant trading.
• throwaway0a5e 6y ago
  Yes. The one small firm that everyone in the industry has heard of is basically all phd guys screwing around with theory and execution and getting filthy rich in the process.
• awake 6y ago
  How about design or other backgrounds such as hci?
• Smaug123 6y ago
  I'm not at Jane Street, but at G-Research (also quant finance). Much as a joke goes which I first heard in the Effective Altruism sphere, our quants come from all kinds of backgrounds: their PhDs are in fluid mechanics, statistical physics, pure maths, you name it!
  • kyawzazaw 6y ago
    how easy do they switch to Quant finance? I don't know anything at all but it seems like an entire new field to learn.