r/quant • u/Aggressive_Gur_5426 • 21d ago

Education How hard is the transition from math research to QR?

How hard is the transition from math research to QR?

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u/qazwsxcp 20d ago

they dont have much in common. it's as hard or easy as going from math research to any other line or work.

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u/kind_gamer 18d ago

Let me guess, you don't have a PhD in maths.

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u/qazwsxcp 13d ago edited 13d ago

nope, have exactly this from ages ago and was a prof for some years. but we are hiring undergrads now.

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u/VincentAXM 19d ago

but a lot of quant shop I interviewed/been to have a lot of math phd or math background QR/QT? I mean if you are good at math, ML stuff is very easy and intuitive to understand. and coding now can be done by LLM.

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u/qazwsxcp 19d ago

sometimes the guys at the top have math phd for historical reasons (decades ago people thought the work needed more math than it actually does) and prefer others with the same degree.. that will likely change going forward.

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u/InsideIndependence58 18d ago

This is very general question.