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Probably some of this stuff does work. The real problem is that changing your life is really difficult. Mainly because there is inertia in your environment. People expect you to ac…

Work extremely slowly, possibly with a tutor through Principles of Mathematical Analysis by Rudin. The book lays down the real foundations of calculus and higher math. Learn the ma…

Work hard to justify the decisions of senior management. Outright refuse bad and low priority work Discredit other teams through data analysis

You should reassess how you see the world

This sounds like pure misery. No self respecting good developer would work under these conditions.

The difference is that quants make way more than regular engineers in finance. At google, an engineer working on the next generation database can make a ton of money, his work is e…

Source is I work in this field. There are positions with big data and data management that pay well. But the ones paying 350k+ are way harder to get than working at a top tech firm…

As a regular engineer? Or is there a math heavy component? My understanding is that I could get about 200k base at goldman and maybe a 20% bonus, this is for working in a high in d…

The truth is tech is not a force multiplier in finance, except for HFT. A few firms do pay a ton for engineers (higher than google level comp), but there are probably less than 500…

This isnt really true. Banks dont pay anywhere near tech salaries. Its all lip service. The flow of good engineers is always banks -> tech companies and never tech companies -> ban…