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Hello everyone,
I’m an incoming Financial Engineering student at NYU Tandon (waiting on a decision from Columbia IEOR to fully commit). My ultimate goal is a competitive buy-side quant role. After reading through QuantNet and speaking with a few people, it sounds like it’s tough to break into these roles if you’re not at a top program or don’t have a PhD.
To strengthen my profile, I’m considering pursuing a PhD eventually, I’m interviewing for research assistant positions this summer to see if that path suits me. My background: I’m a Swiss Econ student with strong quant fundamentals (top percentile of my cohort), some internship experience in structured products and software development, and teaching assistant for a finance course. But overall, I still feel I need to differentiate myself further for the buy side.
If you were in my position, what would you do to maximize the odds of landing a buy-side quant role? Should I push straight through with an MFE and then a PhD, or focus on the interview process assuming my résumé won't get screened out by the ATS from these firms?
Any advice is appreciated, thanks!
I’m an incoming Financial Engineering student at NYU Tandon (waiting on a decision from Columbia IEOR to fully commit). My ultimate goal is a competitive buy-side quant role. After reading through QuantNet and speaking with a few people, it sounds like it’s tough to break into these roles if you’re not at a top program or don’t have a PhD.
To strengthen my profile, I’m considering pursuing a PhD eventually, I’m interviewing for research assistant positions this summer to see if that path suits me. My background: I’m a Swiss Econ student with strong quant fundamentals (top percentile of my cohort), some internship experience in structured products and software development, and teaching assistant for a finance course. But overall, I still feel I need to differentiate myself further for the buy side.
If you were in my position, what would you do to maximize the odds of landing a buy-side quant role? Should I push straight through with an MFE and then a PhD, or focus on the interview process assuming my résumé won't get screened out by the ATS from these firms?
Any advice is appreciated, thanks!
