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I been applying for jobs for about 2 months and I haven't found much success despite blasting my resume ever where and talking with everyone. I am still taking the advance C++ course however.
Applying for Job for 2 months no sucess
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What types of jobs are you applying to? Have you had your resume looked over by another set of eyes other than your own? Depending on the size of the firms you are applying to, LinkedIn can be useful in that you’re able to look at the backgrounds of folks who hold positions similar to the ones you’re applying for. If your background seems different than the average one in some core way, you’re likely applying to the wrong kinds of positions.
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Software engineering jobs or rather C++ posisitions. All entry level on linkedin. I dont have a single official internship experience at software development company. That might be different but I have similar skills.
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Welcome to the club.
You have got to hunt for those internships, trying to stand out without them is kind of a lost cause, but you have to stand out to get them. Kinda circular.
What is your background?
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Graduate, I had almost 2 research experience for both summers. Dual major in Mathematics and Computer Science. I had to work undergrad about 30-35 hours a week to go to school. Taking C++ course that is hosted by QuantNet. I am currently doing their advance course.
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Completely within expectation given the current climate. Personally I'm 6 months out of a job. My credentials are decent. PhD in maths, Oxbridge graduate (first), four years of work experience at a leading hedge fund.
Unfortunately it can sometimes be difficult to view one's situation in a global macro-economic context, rather than as a personal failure. My advice: do things that you truly enjoy and arguably won't have time for once you find a job. If you're desperate for cash you can probably land a gig delivering parcels for Amazon...
Unfortunately it can sometimes be difficult to view one's situation in a global macro-economic context, rather than as a personal failure. My advice: do things that you truly enjoy and arguably won't have time for once you find a job. If you're desperate for cash you can probably land a gig delivering parcels for Amazon...
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in the meantime, model validation jobs are abundant, which is arguably a better gig than amazon delivery
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Model validation? What would be the name of that position? I'm in a very similar boat. Physics undergrad with experience running the student run investment fund, now starting a UK online mathematical finance program because I didn't find anything over the summer. Either hoping to find full time work or get into a U.S. based program with good recruiting for next fall.
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Each of these positions call for 3-5 years of experience. They don't seem to be entry level
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Tips on types of projects? I have no idea what kind of stuff to do so like I have one project that uses a bayesian optimization algo to maximize the sharpe ratio for a backtest of 13 different asset indexes (A proof to myself of the value of diversification) and a wealth management monte carlo sim sampling from the real historical returns distribution IVV and TLT w/ dividends & distributions. I also built a simple moving average strategy function and maximize it through testing the sample space of parameters which are the length of the SMA and how often it checks for a signal. (not robust models I know. pretty much the definition of overfitting)
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Something like what I’ve been doing...
mrajancsr/Market-Learn
Research on Factor Models, Alpha Generation etc. Contribute to mrajancsr/Market-Learn development by creating an account on GitHub.
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don’t copy me, otherwise I might have to kill you
. Jk. But you get the picture. Implement whatever you are studying as a module/library that can be utilized by the general public.I’m currently implementing a regime switching model from scratch. It’s pretty difficult and I’m almost done. Trying to speed up the optimizer by implementing an EM algorithm.
being a good software developer also requires you to know sql, databases, and some front end tools like django/flask. Aws or gws knowledfs where you are creating applications would be huge. That will take you sometime to become good at. You are looking at 3-6m.
Also, knowing c++. Python Dev roles pay a bit more than c++. The knowledge of the two however will make you stand out. Dm me and I can give you advise. I’m currently a software developer at Bank of America and getting to accept a quantitative developer role at Morgan Stanley soon enough. Believe it or not, my employers hired me due to my GitHub.
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That’s pretty impressive. Can you make that oop and push to GitHub?
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seconded!
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this is going to be a shot in the dark, and you should do it anyway
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Haha, Thank you for sharing. Won't steal I promise. is the regime switching model on your GitHub? I'm looking through it now. I'm in the Quantnet C++ course rn so I will have some confidence in my skills by the time I finish that. And Python is what I am most comfortable with. That is great to hear about your github. I posted mine and would be very happy to get feedback. What does it mean to make something OOP? and I haven't messed around with pushing to github yet. I just manually uploaded it. Davidfdaf/David_Personal_Projects
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Yes it is part of my GitHub under market_learn.learning.msr for Markov switching regression. I’m trying to implement the EM algorithm to make it run faster as the optimization runs very slowly as it keeps searching for a local minima
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I would suggest using your terminal to push or pull things. Manual is painful. Go to a directory and type git init to initialize your repo. Once you create a repo manually, do a git clone Your repo’s ssh and clone the repo into your directory.
My code is somewhat incomplete. I mean there are modules that are complete like the linear regression and logistic regression etc, and many of the algorithms module is done. I have a short attention span, so I usually end up switching projects to code something else. I also don’t have too much time after work to do this. I try to allocate 3-4 hours a day after work to work in my GitHub. It’s an ongoing task.
Reason I’m doing this is because I want to eventually be a quantitative software engineer/researcher. I think this is a great way to get your hands dirty. Eventually I will have a lot of portfolio management work there.
to do something oop means to write in terms of classes. If you can maybe mimic my work in c++ that might be huge. But probably very painful to do it.
My code is somewhat incomplete. I mean there are modules that are complete like the linear regression and logistic regression etc, and many of the algorithms module is done. I have a short attention span, so I usually end up switching projects to code something else. I also don’t have too much time after work to do this. I try to allocate 3-4 hours a day after work to work in my GitHub. It’s an ongoing task.
Reason I’m doing this is because I want to eventually be a quantitative software engineer/researcher. I think this is a great way to get your hands dirty. Eventually I will have a lot of portfolio management work there.
to do something oop means to write in terms of classes. If you can maybe mimic my work in c++ that might be huge. But probably very painful to do it.
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I just checked your GitHub. Remove the i pythonnotebooks, they are usually for yourself and it clogs GitHub. Convert what you did in a .cpp or .py file whatever you are coding
tactical asset allocation by Fabre is a great learning opportunity. A good project would be to create a backtester yourself and share it. Maybe a backtester in c++?
tactical asset allocation by Fabre is a great learning opportunity. A good project would be to create a backtester yourself and share it. Maybe a backtester in c++?
