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This could be the answer to "why doing maths" for some people: the author of the content for this journey had an internship with 3125 USD pay a WEEK. This is not to brag: quite a number of our friends had a similar one, some are now full time working and have much bigger salaries.
What exactly is happening inside those companies is a secret. But when it comes to the foundational parts of the maths they use: it is not as much of a secret. And so this is what the journey below is about: preparing a person who knows what an integral is for the maths side of the interviews for an internship or a junior job position as a quant/trader at a good trading company, hedge fund or some of the other finance places. We will also talk about the programming often required, in particular Python for Data Analysis, but this journey is more for maths-minded people (so NOT software guys, sorry).
Surprisingly, the amount of theory required to do well at the interviews for most companies is not huge. The key is being good at thinking, problem-solving and probability (in particular having decent probabilistic intuition). A more fundamental and slower cover of the latter is in the "The basics to know" tab above. Once or if you know that, please proceed to our long-term collection and carefully organised materials below. The first course, SP-1, is actually high-schooler / uni-fresher friendly! The second one is much deeper.
Key words: interviews to trading/quant internships, brainteasers, key probability theory for (many) junior positions.
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6 lessons
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No special prerequisites
Basic Probability (e.g PA-4, PA-5)
Key words: trading / quant-research / finance, more serious, stochastic processes, more linear regression
6 lessons
Coming Soon
No special prerequisites
SP-1 and PA-9 stuff
If you have more than 2 years of high school left, please start with the Casual Learning Plan or Probability from School. Otherwise, before proceeding to preparing for an interview course you must know the fundamentals of discrete probability (PA-4 course below), and then the fundamentals of continuous probability (PA-5 course below). Moreover, you need to go through some problem-solving on those. By the way, the PA-4 course already has real job interview questions!
Key words: lots of problems, basics of discrete probability, expected value, some olympiad stuff.
6 lessons
Coming Soon
No special prerequisites
Prior probability exposure advised
Key words: Theoretical dive into probability theory, continuous & discrete worlds, two modes: high school / uni.
10 or 15 lessons
Coming Soon
No special prerequisites
PA-2 content is assumed
Finally, for whatever reason, the content of the course below happens to be widely applicable, and a third of the companies ask about it in the interviews. It is not easy however, and it is only absolutely required for the SP-2 programme (from the first tab above).
Key words: correlation, linear regression (of course..), unbelievably applicable, finance job interviews.
6 lessons
Coming Soon
No special prerequisites
PA-5 (uni-mode) is needed
Next Steps
Applying! We should note that, sadly, even if you have nailed the interviews, they can still reject you. There are many other reasons for doing so, some are quite annoying. Fingers crossed though!
But in any case, you are welcome to stay within our community: we can also help with the CVs, share our experiences and so on... And you can always browse our set of courses & programs, maybe there is something you want to learn besides the "money-bringing maths" that we have prepared.
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