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Don't want to sound rude, but the lens ("I made this") has pretty bad type work. Kerning is off, the curve is not right ( http://i.imgur.com/tpDqv.png ). The drop shadow is also strange. Overall, there's not enough attention to detail.
I think you are missing the point and holding her to a standard you cannot meet yourself.
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Agreed. My take was that this reads like it was written for all of HN, not the one-to-five people who will be doing the actual hiring.
Isn't that the strategy? How can it reach the 1-5 hiring people if the masses at HN don't upvote?
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I've been interviewing technology interns at a finance company and every single one has said "I'm very quantitative and want to learn more about high frequency trading." I haven't been able to figure out what they mean by that. I think they just heard that's where the money is.
Seems to characterize that labour market. Lots of math, stats & CS people have heard that they can turn brains into $ through the magical zero-sum game of the markets. Thank ederman.
- I like video games, so I'll be a programmer.
- I want to be a ballerina / baseball player / rock star / etc.
- Read a sci fi book and now want to do genetic engineering.
- Read My Life As A Quant and want to be a quant.
A friend of mine is a life sciences lawyer at a firm that bills upwards of $800/hr ... his reason for choosing that path was watching the movie Gattaca. Not joking.