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But it is obviously Harlem and not what people usually mean by "in Manhattan"

If you majored in something quantitative there is just no need to take CS courses in a traditional college format. Online courses are on the same level or better if you can study b…

No idea about parent's background but in my experience those jobs are almost impossible to get if you are not already "inside". HFT is probably the most competitive part of finance…

I really don't get why you consider 30 old or even near that. In my opinion it is a good time to do some self education, maybe change careers because many people don't realize what…

300k for 40 hours a week in quant finance after 5 years in Boston? You are very lucky indeed. Most people don't make this much after 5 years in New York and usually work much more.…

Sounds hard :)

> It's really not hard to make $300k/yr Disagree. If you have an easy recipe feel free to share :). You have to be a front office VP to be guaranteed this kind of money. Aleynikov …

Ah, I am sorry then. 200-250k is what I hear mid-level people at Google make.

"Practically guaranteed" nowadays means about 70% probability in finance :). There are almost no hard guarantees anymore.

But 230k is very different from 400k that lefthander supposedly makes.

This comment makes it hard to believe you. Google has not been known to pay half a million dollars to regular people. And no one in their right mind would call that salary low, exc…

400k is not typical at Google at all.

Confidence intervals are inherently confusing. I have yet to hear a definition that is both correct and easily understood and remembered.

I feel this would be quite confusing for an average programmer. It is more like a cheat sheet for people who have some statistical training but always have to look the formulas up …

Well, I know several software engineers with kids in NYC. Some live in NJ, some live in Brooklyn, some live in Manhattan. In fact, among married immigrants almost everyone has at l…

> Second, at least in New York or the Bay Area, no programmer gets to raise kids. Now you are getting carried away :).

Because it is impossible to have children without a car. Right!

http://www.thamesreach.org.uk/news-and-views/homelessness-fa... "A mixture of street counts and estimates indicated 557 people slept rough on any one night in London 5,678 differen…

There are plenty of people sleeping on park benches in Europe, especially in large cities like London and Paris.

> exercise to write a function which returns a boolean in > response to the question of whether sequence A is a sub- > sequence of sequence B. If you can't solve this really fast i…

So what was the offer like? 2x Intel?

Yes but PhDs tend to be better on average than MFE graduates. If a fund has its choice of PhDs (which is the situation now) there is not much reason to hire someone with only a mas…

Well, total compensation, say at Google, can be around 200k for senior guys. A lot of people in finance are making less than that and so people do leave for software jobs. As I hav…

Fresh out of school.

Which companies can pay someone fresh out of school 150-200k base? Maybe DE Shaw, RenTech, a handful of other large funds. Banks just don't do it.