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Most of the quants have to code themselves. Some of them have PhD/MS from the best CS departments. Very few of them have an army of "minions hacking for [them]"
by pierrealexandre 17y ago
Most of the quants have to code themselves. Some of them have PhD/MS from the best CS departments. Very few of them have an army of "minions hacking for [them]".
That doesn't automatically mean they develop superior sofftware development skills, but I think your comment misrepresents the reality.
- TriinT 17y agoYou are right. I know some quants who have a couple of younger coders to help them with the implementation, but most of them have to code stuff on their own. Sometimes it's "quantish" code like numerical PDEs and SDEs (which is what quants should be doing), other times one has to create GUI's and such stuff which an enthusiastic teenager is more qualified to do than a PhD...