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This is actually the main motivation I look for when hiring someone into my firm. We don't need another guy who studied applied math because he knew he wanted to go into finance since his freshman year. We also don't need another CS dude who is extremely interested in applying 'machine...

Does your university offer both options? Check with your alumni association or career office, I'm sure that they have the most accurate statistics.

No, it's not over. micromass put it in better words than I could, and I have to emphasize that you have virtually no chance of becoming a physicist if majored in computer science engineering.

Great point and anecdote. I can't say I've gone through as much, but I can feel the pain of the 5-10 year high school reunion: I honestly admit to secretly harboring good feelings about making the most money out of my graduating class... in fact two orders of magnitude more than the next guy...

Things get done faster in industrial research - two orders of magnitude faster. So you can concentrate on the things that matter, i.e. the research itself.

As for supplements, I take B vitamins, sulbultiamine, citocholine, piracetam, acetyl l-carnitine, nothing bad for you, but I think it's more of a placebo effect.

I work regularly in excess of 12 hours per day, 7 days a week. The first trick obviously is to find something that you love to do, because that's the only way you can sustain such an effort without burning out. The next thing that really worked for me is a good diet, and a good way to get...

"Also, can anyone recommended a good introduction to statistics book for me?" >> Ross. >> Bertsekas and Tsitsiklis.

Bumping this thread, any views?

There's an unfortunate view in the universities that your fate is in academia, finance or some programming job once you've majored in physics. One guy who worked in the same lab as me on a project ended up in some marine biology research where they had to canoe out to their lab each morning. My...

I'm looking for 1-2 rigorous books on convex analysis for someone who already has some exposure to convexity, linear and nonlinear programming in an applied course. It seems that Rockafellar (Convex Analysis) and Fenchel (Convex Cones, Sets and Functions) is the classic treatment. Is there a...

A gut feeling, mostly. Fortunately, I can say that we get to spend more time with a candidate than recruiters in most other industries. For instance, we could run a short hackathon, take the person out for dinner, host an info session with free food, games and prizes etc.

I don't know if I'm qualified enough to answer your question. I'm pretty sure that there will be a few people on this forum that have hired engineers, but they would probably have hired very few, given the demographics of the forum (unlikely to be in HR or running a large company). So I'd take...

Seconded. Geneva is beautiful.

I think equity research shouldn't even have the word 'research' in it. My sample size is limited, but I've yet to find anyone who enjoyed it, or who has done meaningful work that leveraged their intellectual capacity. Chances are, you'd end up spending a lot of time figuring out how to use...