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ThThanks for the reply! I agree on the fact that internships are more competitive than full time roles (at least in terms of getting the interviews, not sure about actually getting the job). However, the brand name helps in getting them: the last two interviewers both had exactly the MSc I have the offer from and some friend who did the master last year and applied seriously got interviews from 80% of the banks they applied to (currently I have approximately a 30% application-to-interview rate for FO quant jobs).No doubt I would be able to self study to fill the gaps I have in my current knowledge (doable in a couple of months I think) however there would still be things I would learn in the masters that would help for the jobs. I guess my main doubt is that right now I have a relatively easy and safe job where I will still get to 150k£/yr in 4/5 yers (my salary is around 65k £ at the moment and I was promised a promotion to associate next year, which pays around 100k£ all-in) and in some sense "I can only go up" from here (meaning that I can interview for other roles without leaving my job) while getting the msc has a lot of risks (i.e. I might fail some exam, not get any job after the degree or get one that is worse than mine, etc). And the apparently incumbent recession doesn't exactly inspire optimism in terms of the job market. However, I also don't want to find myself still here in a few years time and regret that I didn't take the risk on this master.
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Thanks for the reply! I agree on the fact that internships are more competitive than full time roles (at least in terms of getting the interviews, not sure about actually getting the job). However, the brand name helps in getting them: the last two interviewers both had exactly the MSc I have the offer from and some friend who did the master last year and applied seriously got interviews from 80% of the banks they applied to (currently I have approximately a 30% application-to-interview rate for FO quant jobs).
No doubt I would be able to self study to fill the gaps I have in my current knowledge (doable in a couple of months I think) however there would still be things I would learn in the masters that would help for the jobs. I guess my main doubt is that right now I have a relatively easy and safe job where I will still get to 150k£/yr in 4/5 yers (my salary is around 65k £ at the moment and I was promised a promotion to associate next year, which pays around 100k£ all-in) and in some sense "I can only go up" from here (meaning that I can interview for other roles without leaving my job) while getting the msc has a lot of risks (i.e. I might fail some exam, not get any job after the degree or get one that is worse than mine, etc). And the apparently incumbent recession doesn't exactly inspire optimism in terms of the job market. However, I also don't want to find myself still here in a few years time and regret that I didn't take the risk on this master.
