I'm friends with a retired quant, and one thing I learned from him is the big firms on wall street will hire the absolute most brilliant people they can even to

I'm friends with a retired quant, and one thing I learned from him is the big firms on wall street will hire the absolute most brilliant people they can even to work on utterly banal well known basic strategies. PhD's doing high school math. Because when you're moving billions, nothing is actually basic.