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Absolutely yes. Depending on what kind of engineer, it is far better to go to the finance (front office quant, back office risk) side than the tech support sid
by MagnumOpus 5y ago
Absolutely yes.
Depending on what kind of engineer, it is far better to go to the finance (front office quant, back office risk) side than the tech support side. They are less snobbish about autodidacts and pay is far better if you are willing to learn about things outside the dev sandbox.
(Our front office has a few quants and ex-quants with electric engineering background, I don't know of any software engineers there.)
- odiroot 5y agoThanks for detailed pointers. What's the deal with front/back offices?
- FabHK 5y agoRule of thumb: the closer to the business (ie front office), the more money and stress. (Front office deals with clients, and in this context comprises sales, trading, structuring. Middle office run control functions, reporting, risk, compliance, etc. Back office would be settlement, accounting, operations, etc.)