To work as a trader today you need a wide range of skills. You still have to be numerate, cool under pressure, and have an excellent memory. But this is no longer enough. Increasingly, traders have to be able to […]
Tag: Python
So you want to be a data scientist in finance?
Do you want a job in data science in the finance industry? I was originally rather contemptuous about the term, ‘data science’. If you’re a trained statistician with a postgraduate degree in statistics and an undergraduate degree in a mathematical discipline, surely working […]
How to get a job at McKinsey & Co: learn this programming language
Getting your foot in the door at one of the top consulting firms is no easy task. At McKinsey, for example, more than 750k people apply in given year. Fewer than 1% are accepted. That trumps the lowest acceptance rate at […]
“Python already replaced Excel in banking”
If you wanted to prove your mettle as an entry-level banker or trader it used to be the case that you had to know all about financial modelling in Excel. Not any more. These days it’s all about Python, especially on the trading […]
Devriez-vous apprendre à programmer en Julia pour doper votre carrière en finance ?
Les langages informatiques vont et viennent au fil du temps. COBOL était l’un des langages informatiques les plus populaires. Bien que de nombreux systèmes existants fonctionnent encore avec du code COBOL, il est peu probable que vous y écriviez un […]
Comment: How much Python do you need to know to work in trading now?
Python is the big thing in finance at the moment. If you’re a trader and you’ve never coded before, the big question is how much Python do you need to know? – Do you really need to give up evenings and weekends to […]
Interview questions banks will ask when you say you can code in Python
As an ‘engineer’ in an investment bank, I get to conduct a lot of interviews – especially with people who claim to be able to code in Python. They might be fellow coders, but they can also be traders who say they know how to code. […]
Everything you need to know about landing Goldman Sachs’ new $100k research gig
If you haven’t heard, Goldman Sachs is rolling out a one-year program aimed at giving young engineers access to the bank’s proprietary code and APIs to research and build new products. The headliner is that Goldman will pay recent graduates $100k for […]
Témoignage : « Oubliez Python, vous devez apprendre à coder en Cython »
Python gagne du terrain pour résoudre des problèmes en finance pour de nombreuses raisons. Tout d’abord, c’est un langage relativement facile à apprendre. C’est aussi généralement plus rapide d’écrire des programmes en Python. Il existe également de nombreuses bibliothèques Python […]
Cinq choses que vous devez savoir avant d’apprendre Python pour un job en finance…
Les programmeurs Python sont en forte demande dans les banques et les hedge funds. Heureusement, ce langage de programmation est facile à apprendre – il est souvent utilisé dans les écoles primaires britanniques pour enseigner les bases de la programmation. […]