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Hundreds of interview questions and answers for people interested in data science jobs. The topics are statistics, data science, machine learning, data analysis, deep learning, etc. Credit: Steve Nouri,

Baruch press release on this news https://newscenter.baruch.cuny.edu/news/baruch-college-mfe-students-claim-first-place-at-2023-rotman-international-trading-competition/

@Peter Wagner is a managing director of a recruitment firm. He posted market updates here. His firm has a blog which has several useful for technical quant candidates. https://www.affinityny.com/for-candidates I'll see if he can come and do a Q/A with us.

Hey Alex, Very glad to see your first post here. Welcome back. Your observation is similar to everything I heard about C++ skill is high in demand now. @Pavlos Sakoglou can give some pointers as he utilized his C++ skills into his current role. I'm actually reaching out to a few technical...

There is a post by a UCLA MFE student sharing his thoughts on why he chose the program. Worth reading to get a first hand experience. https://quantnet.com/threads/why-ucla-anderson-mfe.52335/

I found this clip on Youtube from Columbia Business School. It was posted in 2021 but still a good overview for MSFE students.

Added to the Tracker as well as the list above. If there is enough data, maybe there will be a future UK rankings.

I updated the name of Warwick on the Tracker. If you see any missing UK programs from the Tracker, please let me know and I will add them.

Please try again. I have made the GRE optional since many programs do not require them.

This is excellent news to hear Felix. Congrats. I would strongly encourage you to share your timeline on the Tracker and mark Chicago as your choice so others who going there can easily connect with you. Thank you for your contribution.

WSO Patrick and I go way back to the ealier days of both of our sites. We still keep in touch these days. Glad that you found your way here and I appreciate you being with us.

Forum are for old geezers like me :) I am curious where the youngsters hang out these days?

The latest release 0.5 Source PyStatMl — Statistics and Machine Learning in Python 0.5 documentation Link to PDF https://raw.github.com/duchesnay/data/master/pdf/StatisticsMachineLearningPython.pdf

The link to the QuantNet Python course is here https://quantnet.com/python/ Please let @APalley or us know if you need any further information.

I'd like to welcome everyone who recently joined QuantNet. We have a huge spike of members and it is our tradition to do a little introduction and get to know other members who potentially become our future classmates or colleagues. I started this in 2006 so I've been around here for a while but...

Congrats. Can you update the Tracker with your admit? That will brighten everyone's day :)

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Prof. Lawler, very nice to see you here and thank you for post. If you don't mind, I'll post the link to your page on University of Chicago's Financial Mathematics program which contains link to your Stochastic Calculus ebook. https://finmath.uchicago.edu/about/faculty-and-lecturers/gregory-lawler/

Thank you Pavlos for coming back and sharing your experience. We appreciate you, sir. I'm featuring this on the homepage so this can get more attention. Now, what would you do differently if you went back and were in the positions of many members here, planning to get a finance job? How would...

There are a few members here went to Chicago according to the 2021 roll call thread https://quantnet.com/threads/2021-mfe-admission-roll-call.48253/ You can message them directly to see if they are willing to leave a review here.

The 2023 ranking page has been updated with an overview of the average students ratings. Hopefully, this will give more prominence to the reviews and in turn, encourage more alumni to write a review. https://quantnet.com/mfe-programs-rankings/

Hey @shedinja, Say hi to Tim and Sarah for me when you go to UW CFRM. It's good that you want to get a jump start on it and you come to the right place. You can start with this and ask any question here if you need help. How will you prepare for your coding skills so you can be ready for...

Would come in handy if you use Bloomberg terminal at work and need to learn these shortcuts.

I said this before but worth repeating. We see great value and huge demand for the MFE rankings we do every year, otherwise we won't do it because it is A LOT of work to get it done. It literally takes months of survey, emails from 30+ programs to get the data and then weeks to calculate the...

They must be the one writing the 5 stars reviews lately :) If not, can you please ask them to give us a review here?

The struggle to get reviews for program is real and dated back years ago. Student reviewers of MFE programs I think we need to ask the fundamental question of whether people only motivated to do that when money involved? We offered Amazon giftcard before for reviews but it doesn't make a big...

@Qui-Gon had some logical thoughts. We rank programs of the same discipline together. The fact that Columbia already has 2 different programs in our ranking that target similar applicants for similar job profiles, it is hard to see the Financial Economics program wants to be in the same pool...

Congrats. Can you please share you profiles and timelines in the Tracker?

https://mcf.stanford.edu/

I believe you and @Lukee bring a lot of fresh perspectives into the discussions here and they are extremely appreciated. I agree that there are lots of questions that left untold over the years and lots of topics that many people avoid to bring up. I'm glad that new members like you bring it up...

Meaning the programs have not been very successful of attracting domestic students. I met many young, talented US-born undergrads who would do really well in MFE programs but on papers, they may not measure up against the talents coming oversea as far as GPA, GRE scores go. @Christian and @Brad...

@Lukee Looking at this from another angle, since you are a domestic student, you have a better chance getting into a program than many international students with a stronger profile. I have discussion with many program directors and they all indicate a desire to attract more domestic students...

We tried this years ago but it did not result in any uptick in quality reviews.

I did reach out to a few members here as well as on LinkedIn to solicit a review so we will see. We need to provide some incentives for graduates to write a review and I am open for any suggestion on this front. Please keep this in mind after you go through the journey and you get a future...

@ssbes Can you please share your timelines at all the programs you applied this year on the Tracker? https://quantnet.com/tracker/ You can also track timelines of other Fordham MSQF admits this year too. Looks like there is one admit this year on the Tracker.

This is the original list. We have several contributors over the years, such as this thread but if you can update it and present it to be a more presentable format, it would help tremendously. We can put them on its own Resource page where you can edit it.

Using the Tracker, you can filter by the programs and admit status. This way, you can look at the profiles of everyone admitted by Chicago.

If @Ken Abbott is still up for it, I'm sure we all can benefit from his experience.

According to Bloomberg the top 15 highest earning hedge fund managers in 2022 on average returned +35% (an outperformance of 54% against US stocks). https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-17/ken-griffin-steve-cohen-top-highest-hedge-fund-earner-list 3 insights: 1. The best performing...

Congrats. Can you please share with us your timeline for Chicago and other programs you applied on the Tracker? That would be hugely useful for all of us.

Pinging the author @dstefan

The article from NYT is an interesting read. While it's easy to get blinded by the huge amount of compensation mentioned, it's irrelevant to most people here. Instead, there are some key information bits that we can glean and use. When you go interview for a job at a HF, knowing the type of HF...

Calling all 2023 applicants to join this thread so we can all share our status, hope and dream :)

And don't forget to post your results here guys. It's a tradition we have every year for all the applicants. https://quantnet.com/threads/2023-mfe-admissions-roll-call.53261/

You are already on QuantNet asking questions, doing your research so you are a step ahead of others. Keep learning and you will be good.

I'm going to provide some admission statistics so you guys can put your mind at ease or getting more anxiety. The choice is yours. Once you have your admission interview, just sit back and relax because you did all your part. Getting into MIT is just the beginning of a long journey and a lot of...

I know @Bill Stanley and we both reviewed applications for the NYU Courant Math Fin program back in the days. https://quantnet.com/threads/do%E2%80%99s-and-don%E2%80%99ts-of-mfe-applications.12664/

@jarryds has very sensible advice. Things will get very hectic once you start your MFE. You will rarely see your family during the year and half that you are busy doing course work, prepping for interviews, etc. The trick is to have a healthy and balanced approach. Try to enjoy the process and...

@Eldiablo @Jiamin Li @k_t

We have a massive list here that many members contributed over the years. https://quantnet.com/threads/quant-internship-and-graduate-recruitment-a-firms-list.10000/ https://quantnet.com/threads/big-list-of-quant-employers.26716/ https://quantnet.com/threads/big-list-of-quant-employers-2.27288/

If your goal is to land in one of the coveted roles at BB in NYC, top programs in our MFE rankings who have demonstratively shown good record of placing there is the way to go. Transferring laterally to the US is a really tough nut to crack. Some programs attract a mix of fresh graduates and...

I know @Joy Pathak back when he started his MFE. He later went on to have lot of success as a trader and last I checked, made enough money to retire in his 30s. Still very amazing to see how such a career started here on QuantNet. He did contribute a lot as a member here.

How is your experience in the program so far?

@CourantMathFinance @OoozeDonatin @able_archer @RedDevilSlayer @HenryZhuuuuu Please use the Watch function (top right corner of this thread) to get instant notification when someone replies to this thread.

I would be very interested to hear experience from our members who have moved between the two job types. Would it be easier to go from finance to crypto or vice versa? The following article has some interesting takes on it. https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/2023/01/leave-crypto-for-banking

I'm very excited to see our coding extraordinaire @APalley, the TA for our C++ and Python online courses is interviewed with Deep Q Digital, an algorithmic trading firm in CT. I've known and worked with Avi more than a decade and can say with absolute confidence that he is one of the best...

This is great news for many of us who get our first job after MFE with an H1-B visa. The State Department will launch a pilot program later this year offering visa renewal options in the US for H-1B specialty occupation workers and other temporary visa holders who are currently required to...

Yes, these advices apply today as it did a dozen years ago.

When we choose programming languages, we usually decide based on their syntax, performances, or even learning curve. Yet, a few years ago a group of Portuguese researchers investigated the energy consumption of 𝟮𝟳 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗽𝗼𝗽𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲𝘀, 𝗺𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗲𝘅𝗲𝗰𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲, 𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗴𝘆 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘂𝗺𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻...

We appreciate your presence on QuantNet as this give our audience an outlet to reach out to NYU Courant MSMF's personel directly.

Would this help? https://coinmetrics.io/community-network-data/ Download data for all assets as a ZIP file or TAR file

Any background is ok to apply to MFE programs as long as you have the prerequisites in math, programming, finance knowledge. Some undergraduates degrees are more traditionally fit for MFE than others. Quant is a loose term and there are more ways to get there than one. You can get a role as...

Keep us all updated please. Also remember to add your timeline to the Tracker so we can reduce our anxiety level.:)

Ignore him. He is a troll and has been banned.

Hard to get some voluntary reviews. You either see a wave of positive reviews by new members or some rare negative reviews. Most people don't just spend their time sharing a review for the sake of writing a review anymore. Direct way is to reach out to members on the QuantNet Tracker who applied...

https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/podcast/wharton-business-daily-podcast/chatgpt-passed-an-mba-exam-whats-next/ Wharton professor Christian Terwiesch said he “fell in love” with ChatGPT after reading its answer to an exam question in his graduate-level operations management course. The...

Best of luck. Looking forward to hearing from you.

100% agree. I think we have lot of lurkers here and there are lot to be gained collectively if people take initiative and be more open to connect. I'm happy to discuss and work on any idea or initiative you have.

When I did my MFE in 2006, lot of my classmates were in their 30s and having different career/background (law/medical/sales/etc) and we all paid our dues going through the grueling process of the MFE. This should give you in some perspective. There are always younger, better candidates but the...