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Renaissance Technologies only hires quants with notable publications. You have to be pretty smart to make noteable STEM publications.
by logicchains 3y ago
Renaissance Technologies only hires quants with notable publications. You have to be pretty smart to make noteable STEM publications.
- jjav 3y agoFinance is not engineering. Ignoring that for a moment (although we shouldn't, different fields are different), their jobs page lists an opening for a Web Programmer that pays 143k-159k range in NY (i.e. very little). I'm guessing this role doesn't require notable publications and they're not looking for a "bonafide, legitimate, super-genius" to fill this role. (Or if they are, they will never ever fill the role with that salary. They'd be fools to try and I assume they are not fools.) That was my point. Companies will hire top talent for the revenue-leading roles but quite rationally don't need to do that for every single engineering role (as OP claimed) because there are plenty of jobs where a trustworthy responsible adult who gets the job done is exactly what they need, even if they don't have a Turing Award.
- ryandrake 3y agoAlso, why does having many "notable publications" make someone "the best"? That seems pretty arbitrary and subjective. How many Academic Publications™ does John Carmack have?