EE to HFT/Algotrading
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@maxdama comes to mind
He has only a BS from Berkeley but has done great job in this space. He is pretty passionate and work really hard and it shows.
He got a FT job now in this space.
http://www.maxdama.com/
He has only a BS from Berkeley but has done great job in this space. He is pretty passionate and work really hard and it shows.
He got a FT job now in this space.
http://www.maxdama.com/
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As a developer, yes. As a strategist, no. What sort of EE are we talking about?
Please elaborate.
From posts around here it seems that the mandatory courses in EE cover 80% of the subjects recommend to know or/and subjects that companies seek knowledge in but MFE programs doesn't supply.
If you add to that some stochastic signal processing / estimation problems which are very common EE fields it seems that a huge percentile of EE's are a good match, or am I completely off?
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The courses are definitely very relevant to strategy. The problem is that the top HF desks have a strict preference for PhDs, which we might not agree with, but it's the reality. They seek out masters students (CS, optimization, EE, other E, MFE + E/CS BS) as quant developers. So it's potentially setting yourself up for a catch-22 situation because you've learned a lot of what's relevant for strategy, but not nearly as much about what's relevant for quant developing. Nothing is black and white, of course, but this is my impression. If you're the next Peter Muller then you can certainly get into strategy at some point, regardless of your background, after you get your foot in the door with a developer position.
