How I became a quant | Q&A on academic background, salary, work life balance 

first time to see a female quant share video on youtube! really inspiring!

There’s nothing legally preventing you from sharing your salary. By federal law, employers cannot prohibit employees from disclosing their salary.

Thank you so much for this video! You‘re content is great, I‘ve seen the „a day in the life of a quant“ at first - very well done. Please keep going! 👏🏻

Watching your video from France ! thank you ! Can't wait to see your video about how to polish resume and more about the interview process in general :)

I'm also an young quant woman (live in Japan) , so this video was very helpful for me. I made mind to keep studying English and FE dreaming to be like you someday...😂 if possible, i wanna chatting with you.....😢

Please put out a video on how to pick the right financial engineering program 🙌🏻Thanks for this video!

Thank you for the insight! Would love a follow up video on choosing the right financial engineering program.

Awesome! Thank you for answering in such a detailed fashion! regards,- future quant

hello小姐姐，澳本UNSW actuarial science/finance, 英硕LSE quantitative method in risk management能转行quant吗?

Thanks for this! How to polish your resume! Please!

after getting job, do you dedicate time to study? did u do any certifications? which books or online courses do you recommend for quant?

Thank you for the video. It was very informative. Keep on doing more videos.

whats the right FE program?

Thank you for this video. Very helpful and insightful !

First of all thanks to you for such a informative video on quant. Which laptop do quant prefer, is it mac/windows/linux ?

How do one distinguish between quant developer and researcher ? I want to become a quant researcher but online sources says a lot different things. People are saying quant researcher doesn’t require much coding some says it requires intense coding skills. where quant dev is basically a software engineer?

Thank you so much for making this video! I am a senior student currently preparing to apply for MFE programs, and CMU is also one of my dream school 🥲I would love to hear your advice on how to polish a quant resume, select a Master's program, and just general advice on becoming a quant! Sending a lot of support here~

could you tell me this wage band figure are paying per MONTH or per YEAR, pls?

thanks for the video it was really helpful!! 我是大三学生准备找summer internship，也在考虑读硕士，想了解您申请美国master时的背景（本科，work experience 等等）～期待您的以后的quant related videos！！

I want to apply for a master degree on computational finance or FE . Can you please advice me on how to choose the right one to become quant trader? And also it would be great if you talk on the specific topics in statistic ,probability and math that as a quant trader need to work on.

where did you go to college and which colleges do you need to go to to get into these quant jobs

Thank you for the video, it was really clear and gave an answer to a lot of my questions. I have just one question: I'm currently building a track record of my trading strategies, a portfolio of softwares that I made and I'm studying economics at university; I'm thinking to start studying "data science" as next degree (I'm really passionate about machine learning). Once I'll complete the journey, do you think that this things could bring me to a quant job, or should I do something more/different in order to get a job in that field? Thank you so much!

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Hi my daughter is doing.. Finance mathematics.at Minneapolis, minasota university how is her future will be

How do you know the MFE is a good one?

Hi, I'm not going to say you should share your salary, that's totally up to you. But you should know that in the state of California, it's illegal for employers to prevent employees from disclosing their salary (or retalitate against them for doing so).

Thank you so much for this video! You‘re content is great. I have a request if you are comfortable could you please recommend some books or courses . Maybe you could share a roadmap with topics . Please

curious about what type of quants do you see most in SF area? and where are those firms located mostly? thanks

Hi, as a quant you are going to assigned with teams right? And interact with them at work and out of work?

Thanks for your opinion! I think is really usefull to a lot of people interested on quant market. I would like to ask you, is there any limit age on quant jr new joiners?

Thanks for your sharing.I’m a viewer from Taiwan,also working in financial industry.Don’t know whether there is any videos about applying US school and experience of studying abroad haha Anyway, it’s a great video👏👏

You seem to imply that the usual work of a quant is much more related to statistics than with analytical models. Is that correct"?

Hi! Watching your video from Spain. I wonder whether its too old/compettitive for someone who is 35 to have their first quant job? My background is in math and have been developer for over 4 years now. Keep up the good work! :)

Thanks for the great video! Do you think that non-math or science major or someone who has nothing to do with this field at all can also do quant investment by learning alone?

I m now in the middle office risk position with intermediate programming skills, what would you think would be great to break into being a quant?

Thank You, would like to know more about different MFE programs like , the ones which fall under Business Schools and other which are part of Math & Stats Dept at Universities, which one should we prefer !!!

Ni hao. how can i prepare for the wqu quantitative proficiency test? different than the (free!) online resources

Thanx! it really helps a lot :)

I wanna know how to choose the right computational finance master!

Did you have to get a student Visa? Were you able to do any internships while studying your MFE program? I'm seriously considering and have so many questions lol

Thank you for making this video! What math degree did you do as a dual major?

Lovely video! Are you a quant researcher, quant trader or quant developer?

Hi, your video is really great! I actually have 1 question. Currently im working as risk model validation and also hold a bachelor’s degree in economics (major in applied statistics). My question is will the chance for me to pass the cv round for a quant trader role be the same as someone that has a masters degree in statistics or financial engineering?

Can you share if you have met anyone who is from a business background but managed to make it to quant? Would love to know how they did it as well. Thank you

Also wanted to know how much emphasis is placed on the name (reputation) of the MFE school relative to others?

hey thanks for this :)

Hi thanks for the video. I'm concerned about whether I'm still competitive in the quant industry if I'm pivoting into it at the age of 29. I have been in Civil Engineering industry and would graduate with a Quant Finance Master degree in 2024 May. What are the chances, and if it's not recommended to become a quant, is Risk Management the best alternative? Thanks a lot!

Hi, can you make a video explaining the career path of a quant out of MFE (with 5+ years of out of industry experience)

Can someone in late 30s (unmarried, so no family responsibility & can live like people who r in 20s) passionate about financial market enroll in year long quant finance masters course & switch from software testing job to Quant finance job

not possible in china. competition too high. i give up

How do we find drift in financial time series data

your videos arrived here in Brazil too, but why don't you make a video on how to be a free lance quant ....? ......

Thanks for sharing! 👍👍

Would loveee a video on how to choose the right MFE program !!

How is the financial engineering course from WQU ?

“that’s a juicy question”!

Amazing content

I'm doing a conversion degree in data science and artificial intelligence. Do you think this would be a good foundation to break into this field?

Really great video, please share about MFE program.

Thanks for the insight! Could I pm you some qns please

Thank u so much

Please share about how you prepared to apply for MFE programs and recommendations on the good ones

Can you shed some light on how you build models to find noisy data

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Hey! I'd love to see both the resume and the right masters program videos!

Is a degree in maths or that in cs is better?

If you do not have a degree some companies treat you like a second class citizen.

Hello, my daughter who is graduating from college next month was just accepted into a masters program for quantitative economics. Thank you for the helpful information about this field and this area of study. Question: what is the appx. male to female ratio in the field, and in academia?

I appreciate the video but most of the things you said here is just too generic, didn’t learn much

Hi, this is Ray from Insightin Talent. We are searching quant researcher for top quantitative hedge funds in China. I'm wondering if you may have interest in new opportunities? Thank you.

demn yall too smart. too bad i'm not asian and not smart, sed

Hello! I just sat for the level 3 CFA exam and I’m interesting in pivoting into the quant direction. My main three routes I’m interested in generally is equity research, fixed income research, and quantitative research. Naturally, I’m building up my Python skills as I’ve already become strong in excel, tableau, and automation tools like alteryx. I’m 25 now, would you or any of my fellow commenters suggest anything in particular to get started on that journey ? Currently waiting to take a Python programming course and start posting weekly projects to my other RU-vid channel to act as a living portfolio / resume. Perhaps a Python project that can get me started ? Solid statistics work or statistics projects applied to finance ? Shoot I don’t even mind doing the world happiness survey stuff over again lol

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Hey I’m in my a levels ,year 13 in the uk and I’m hoping to be a quant in the future,I have maths biology and chemsitry as my subjects and my strongest subject is maths.I’m an A*,I was thinking to do a financial mathematics degree 4 years,would this be the right pathway?Also lovely video.

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