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I'm about to finish a PhD in computer science at UWaterloo. From the point of view of getting a good quant position, which of the following is better:
1) Try to get a postdoc position at a prestigious university in the US and leverage the university's name to get a quant job.
2) Just prepare and apply for quant positions right now.
These two strategies will require me to do completely different kinds of work. If I want to do (1), I will have to focus on publishing more papers over the next one year so that I can get a good postdoc position. If I want to do (2), I will have to prepare for finance interviews over the next few months and apply for quant jobs. So what should I pick?
Or another way of asking the same question is this: assuming I get my PhD in December 2014, two years from now which of the two career paths will make me a better candidate for a quant position: 1) I do one or two postdocs at prestigious universities over the next two years, or 2) I work as a quant for the next two years?
1) Try to get a postdoc position at a prestigious university in the US and leverage the university's name to get a quant job.
2) Just prepare and apply for quant positions right now.
These two strategies will require me to do completely different kinds of work. If I want to do (1), I will have to focus on publishing more papers over the next one year so that I can get a good postdoc position. If I want to do (2), I will have to prepare for finance interviews over the next few months and apply for quant jobs. So what should I pick?
Or another way of asking the same question is this: assuming I get my PhD in December 2014, two years from now which of the two career paths will make me a better candidate for a quant position: 1) I do one or two postdocs at prestigious universities over the next two years, or 2) I work as a quant for the next two years?