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The courses are individually available on edX. You can audit them but the access is for a short period of time. I am hoping to finish Mathematical Methods for Q

The courses are individually available on edX. You can audit them but the access is for a short period of time. I am hoping to finish Mathematical Methods for Quantitative Finance this time before my access expires.

brcmthrowaway 3y ago
Going to get a job with this course?
- ayhanfuat 3y ago
  It is more like a hobby/personal development kind of thing. The methods used in the course (stochastic models, multivariate optimization etc) are also applicable in many areas other than finance.
- gumby 3y ago
  Are you asking if the experience resulted in useful knowledge that will help with performing a new job, or if they will use the “name” to get a foot in the door? Personally if I look at someone’s education on a resume I simply ignore anything that’s not a “regular” multi-year degree. That includes those year long executive MBAs which probably are useful for someone working for a big company. But if someone has had a couple of years in the workforce I don’t even look at their education at all.
  - moron4hire 3y ago
    In my own hiring decisions, I also don't pay that much attention to education. But I don't have the last say, and unfortunately, there are a lot of companies that basically all but require an advanced degree to be able to progress in your career track past the 10 year mark. Small businesses and startups may not have as much HR mechanization to get in the way, but unless you have an in through networking, such places can be very hard to find, especially if you are looking for a place that is at all stable or paying a competitive salary. I have 20 years of experience in software development, with the last 10 having various degrees of management responsibility as I've been "the most responsible adult in the room" for a bunch of small companies. My last job ended when the company lost funding for my position. Now, at my 2k+ people current employer, I've already been administratively shoehorned into my current position (managing a development team), responsible for level X but titled at level (X-1) because I don't have a master's. My level is higher than most other people in my group, but the actual job I'm doing is a level higher, which would come with a very, very significant pay increase, because it's breaching the barrier of being primarily and individual contributor to being primarily a manager. My boss has said that my promotion track is basically frozen until I get one. The company will help pay for one, and there are a lot of people in my group that have taken advantage of the benefit, so it's not bullshit. But I really don't feel like I'd be doing it to learn anything, it'd just be for credentialing. Back when I first started my career, the only people I knew who had master's degrees were working in honest to goodness scientific research, or C-suite executives. We had ICs that didn't have CS degrees at all. Those days are clearly over.
    - gumby 3y ago
      > My boss has said that my promotion track is basically frozen until I get [a master's]. The company will help pay for one, and there are a lot of people in my group that have taken advantage of the benefit, so it's not bullshit. But I really don't feel like I'd be doing it to learn anything, it'd just be for credentialing. Interesting, would an online degree count? I was asserting "online credential -- meh" and you'd be a good example that I am wrong. Also, are you in Europe? I haven't seen this kind of thing in the US since the 80s, but then again, who really gets exposure to lots of jobs? Thanks for your comment.
      - moron4hire 3y ago
        No, I'm in the US, in the DC area.
    - brcmthrowaway 3y ago
      Sounds like a government contractor
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skzv 3y ago
Great class, I did that one last winter. Challenging but rewarding.
ericjmorey 3y ago
You can use a different email address to "restart" the course.

brcmthrowaway 3y ago

Going to get a job with this course?

ayhanfuat 3y ago
It is more like a hobby/personal development kind of thing. The methods used in the course (stochastic models, multivariate optimization etc) are also applicable in many areas other than finance.
gumby 3y ago
Are you asking if the experience resulted in useful knowledge that will help with performing a new job, or if they will use the “name” to get a foot in the door? Personally if I look at someone’s education on a resume I simply ignore anything that’s not a “regular” multi-year degree. That includes those year long executive MBAs which probably are useful for someone working for a big company. But if someone has had a couple of years in the workforce I don’t even look at their education at all.
- moron4hire 3y ago
  In my own hiring decisions, I also don't pay that much attention to education. But I don't have the last say, and unfortunately, there are a lot of companies that basically all but require an advanced degree to be able to progress in your career track past the 10 year mark. Small businesses and startups may not have as much HR mechanization to get in the way, but unless you have an in through networking, such places can be very hard to find, especially if you are looking for a place that is at all stable or paying a competitive salary. I have 20 years of experience in software development, with the last 10 having various degrees of management responsibility as I've been "the most responsible adult in the room" for a bunch of small companies. My last job ended when the company lost funding for my position. Now, at my 2k+ people current employer, I've already been administratively shoehorned into my current position (managing a development team), responsible for level X but titled at level (X-1) because I don't have a master's. My level is higher than most other people in my group, but the actual job I'm doing is a level higher, which would come with a very, very significant pay increase, because it's breaching the barrier of being primarily and individual contributor to being primarily a manager. My boss has said that my promotion track is basically frozen until I get one. The company will help pay for one, and there are a lot of people in my group that have taken advantage of the benefit, so it's not bullshit. But I really don't feel like I'd be doing it to learn anything, it'd just be for credentialing. Back when I first started my career, the only people I knew who had master's degrees were working in honest to goodness scientific research, or C-suite executives. We had ICs that didn't have CS degrees at all. Those days are clearly over.
  - gumby 3y ago
    > My boss has said that my promotion track is basically frozen until I get [a master's]. The company will help pay for one, and there are a lot of people in my group that have taken advantage of the benefit, so it's not bullshit. But I really don't feel like I'd be doing it to learn anything, it'd just be for credentialing. Interesting, would an online degree count? I was asserting "online credential -- meh" and you'd be a good example that I am wrong. Also, are you in Europe? I haven't seen this kind of thing in the US since the 80s, but then again, who really gets exposure to lots of jobs? Thanks for your comment.
    - moron4hire 3y ago
      No, I'm in the US, in the DC area.
  - brcmthrowaway 3y ago
    Sounds like a government contractor

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skzv 3y ago

Great class, I did that one last winter. Challenging but rewarding.

ericjmorey 3y ago

You can use a different email address to "restart" the course.