Hi there! I'm the author of the article.If you have a programming skills and a mathematics background, it is possible to break into the industry. Even better if

Hi there! I'm the author of the article.If you have a programming skills and a mathematics background, it is possible to break into the industry. Even better if your current role is as a data scientist of machine learning engineer. I work as a quant on a second tier hedge fund. The pool of potential firms is actually pretty big, but most people think that the only shops out there are citadel, two sigma or rentech. That is definitely not the case, and the salaries are still excellent (comparable to FAANG).