Hello,
I have about a year of PhD/RA work left and am planning what to do when I'm finished. I've been looking into becoming a quant and just ordered the books etc with a plan to have a good knowledge of this industry by the time I finish next year.
However, most of the discussions seem to be about Maths or Physics PhDs, my PhD will be in Computer Science and is very applied rather than theoretical. My undergraduate degree was in Astrophysics. Am I going to be at a disadvantage to people with maths and physics PhD's (i.e. is it worth me pursuing this career choice?).
Secondly, is there anyway to prove your potential as a quant, such as coding up different algorithms. Do companies hold competitions or do financial institutes ever release data that can be used to test different algorithms on?
Also I'm in the UK just in case this makes a difference to the answers?!
Thanks,
Ben
I have about a year of PhD/RA work left and am planning what to do when I'm finished. I've been looking into becoming a quant and just ordered the books etc with a plan to have a good knowledge of this industry by the time I finish next year.
However, most of the discussions seem to be about Maths or Physics PhDs, my PhD will be in Computer Science and is very applied rather than theoretical. My undergraduate degree was in Astrophysics. Am I going to be at a disadvantage to people with maths and physics PhD's (i.e. is it worth me pursuing this career choice?).
Secondly, is there anyway to prove your potential as a quant, such as coding up different algorithms. Do companies hold competitions or do financial institutes ever release data that can be used to test different algorithms on?
Also I'm in the UK just in case this makes a difference to the answers?!
Thanks,
Ben