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Hey Everyone,
Hope you are doing good. I need some advice on the quant education route. I have an undergrad in STEM (life sciences), and an MS in Finance. I have about 7 years of work experience split up between two bulge bracket banks and a consulting firm. My current seat at the bank is in a front office, revenue-generating role, and the seat itself is fairly quantitative (options research). Despite these attributes, I'm finding that breaking into a pure quant trading or PM role is still difficult for me.
I haven't had much trouble getting interviews, but every time, the issue is that Leetcode or Hackerrank always manage to snub my progress. I've found that the methods that are tested are wildly different than the ones I (or any of my peers) actually use in practice. I chalk up this lack of knowledge on my part to being "self-taught" and not having a formal education in computer science. To combat this hurdle, I've considered a few routes--namely, sucking it up and:
1) Spending a year on pre-reqs and then doing an M.S. in Comp Sci
2) Spending a year on pre-reqs and then doing an M.S. in Statistics or Data Science
3) Spending a year on pre-reqs and then doing an MFE
Which (if any) of these routes would you recommend? If none, how can I tackle the Hackerrank issue? Would it be better to simply grind out problems/use YouTube for lessons for a year and then try again?
Any advice much appreciated!
Hope you are doing good. I need some advice on the quant education route. I have an undergrad in STEM (life sciences), and an MS in Finance. I have about 7 years of work experience split up between two bulge bracket banks and a consulting firm. My current seat at the bank is in a front office, revenue-generating role, and the seat itself is fairly quantitative (options research). Despite these attributes, I'm finding that breaking into a pure quant trading or PM role is still difficult for me.
I haven't had much trouble getting interviews, but every time, the issue is that Leetcode or Hackerrank always manage to snub my progress. I've found that the methods that are tested are wildly different than the ones I (or any of my peers) actually use in practice. I chalk up this lack of knowledge on my part to being "self-taught" and not having a formal education in computer science. To combat this hurdle, I've considered a few routes--namely, sucking it up and:
1) Spending a year on pre-reqs and then doing an M.S. in Comp Sci
2) Spending a year on pre-reqs and then doing an M.S. in Statistics or Data Science
3) Spending a year on pre-reqs and then doing an MFE
Which (if any) of these routes would you recommend? If none, how can I tackle the Hackerrank issue? Would it be better to simply grind out problems/use YouTube for lessons for a year and then try again?
Any advice much appreciated!
