Getting a job after quantnet c++ certificate

[saveYMS]

I'm currently a back office developer at an investment bank in New York, with about 3 years of full-time work experience. I don't have any experience with C++, would taking both of the quantnet courses help me transition to a quant dev or C++ dev job? I have some doubts because I don't see how I can convince people that even though I don't have professional experience with C++ I've learned the language through two online courses and that they should hire me.

 

[Daniel Duffy]

Which C++ courses have you done?
I would start on QN C++

 

[MikeLawrence]

I am a Quant C++ Dev in NYC, working closely with a large quant team and loving it (mostly). AMA

Feel free to post questions below, and I'll try to address them as well as I can :)

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How Quantnet's C++ certificates got me a job on Wall Street

Dear prospective students, I recently signed a contract with a top Investment Bank for an Associate C++ Developer position in the Securities Technology Division in New York. Three years ago I had very little programming and math knowledge, and non-relevant work experience. I was just another...

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[saveYMS]

Which C++ courses have you done?
I would start on QN C++

I did one on coursera. Planning to do C++ Programming for Financial Engineering followed by Advanced C++ and Modern Design. I have no doubt about the quality of the content. My question is more about how to leverage the courses to find a new job, since I won't be applying for entry level jobs and will still not have any professional experience with C++. Any suggestions on how to overcome this? Or is it not a big concern.

I will just apply with the certificate credential resume and try to show my knowledge of development and of C++ as best as possible.

 

[Daniel Duffy]

I have been training and coaching students and industry quants for some time now. I think "bridging the gap" between finance and C++ is a good way to show that you are able and interested. The QN courses includes projects to get you started.

My advice: take a well known (not too big) problem and rerproduce the results based on reference articles.
I have posted a bunch of MSc theses that I supervised on LinkedIn.

What kinds of derivatives do you come in contact with? I suppose iimpressing colleagues is not a bad thing.

 

[Daniel Duffy]

Here's one readable example of a MSc thesis. It shows student has learned and applied her knowledge.

 

[Daniel Duffy]

Here are some articles on C++ applied to option pricing, Might be useful.

Blog: Articles on C++11 and Computational Finance (by Daniel J. Duffy)

The GOF pattern is long overdue to be revamped, so I'm really excited to learn more on your research and thoughts. I am writing a book with co-author HK who took my patterns course in 1992. He is now a 30 year expert, so together 60 years. C++, C# and Python + applications Due Q3 2023.

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[Daniel Duffy]

BTW, just out of curiosity, do you have the list of topics in the C++ Coursera course?

 

[MichaelLewis]

BTW, just out of curiosity, do you have the list of topics in the C++ Coursera course?

Planning a third C++ course? I’d actually be quite happy if you, Andy, and Avi did. I am planning to take the advanced course starting in two months and it’d be good to roll straight into another C++ course right after.

Your first course actually helped get me a job as an algo developer at a trading firm in New York and I plan to use the advanced course and any future course you create to launch phase two of my master plan.

 

[Paul Lopez]

BTW, just out of curiosity, do you have the list of topics in the C++ Coursera course?

Coding for Everyone: C and C++

Offered by University of California, Santa Cruz. Beginner to Programmer — Learn to Code in C & C++. Gain a deep understanding of computer ... Enroll for free.

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seems to be this guy.

 

[saveYMS]

BTW, just out of curiosity, do you have the list of topics in the C++ Coursera course?

Object-Oriented Data Structures in C++

Ordered Data Structures

Offered by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In this course, you will learn new data structures for efficiently storing and ... Enroll for free.

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Unordered Data Structures

Offered by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The Unordered Data Structures course covers the data structures and algorithms needed ... Enroll for free.

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• Orientation; Writing a C++ Program​

• Understanding the C++ Memory Model
• Developing C++ Classes
  Engineering C++ Software Solutions
• Linear Structures
• Tree Structures
• Advanced Structures
• Heap Structures
• Hashing
• Disjoint sets
• Graph Data Structures
• Graph Algorithms

It is actually 3 mini courses, basically using C++ to teach basic Computer Science.

 

[saveYMS]

I have been training and coaching students and industry quants for some time now. I think "bridging the gap" between finance and C++ is a good way to show that you are able and interested. The QN courses includes projects to get you started.

My advice: take a well known (not too big) problem and rerproduce the results based on reference articles.
I have posted a bunch of MSc theses that I supervised on LinkedIn.

What kinds of derivatives do you come in contact with? I suppose iimpressing colleagues is not a bad thing.

I don't come in contact with derivatives at the moment, the group works on macro forecasts and risk. But I agree, building derivatives pricing programs with C++ would be a good thing to work on. I will do the two courses from quantnet first and then pick a project to work on.

Daniel, are you suggesting to write a thesis like the example you attached? I suppose you mean without going back to school officially, is that correct?


Thank you for the advice, I really appreciate it.

 

[saveYMS]

@Daniel Duffy I just want to make sure I understand your suggestion correctly. To summarize: write a thesis like paper on a well known problem in derivatives and implement the methods in C++. This would come after finishing both of Quantnet's C++ courses.

 

[Daniel Duffy]

Even after the first course you could do a nice compact project.