To get jobs at HFT firms is it better to have a double major
I got to a top 5 cs school (think UIUC/Cornell/GT/UCB) and i was wondering if it's worth getting a cs/math double major.
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clearly you don’t go to UCB/Cornell, because no way you’d include GT and UIUC with them if you did
yeah, cs/math is the most common major combination for quant/trading roles
Why do you say that? (I go to Princeton/UIUC/Harvard)
Say what you will about UIUC and Cal, but GT's CS program is just as good as Cornell's if not better. And you get to spend 4 years in ATL instead of Ithica.
Berkeley’s program is the best of the 4 listed schools without a doubt
For prop shops, you see pretty solid representation from both Cal and Cornell, some UIUC in Chicago shops too. Though there’s some GT kids, far fewer than the 3 other schools (linkedin can verify this)
OP has asked this question many many times across here and reddit. Perhaps this is them trying to hide who they are?
To OP: major in CS, do a double major with math if and only if you enjoy it enough to maintain a high GPA. If you get some experience during your first couple summers you have a strong chance at FAANG internship/jobs. From there plenty of HFT shops will interview you for dev (from GATech you probably have a decent shot at getting HFT interviews even without FAANG experience tbh). Of course at interview stage they only care about performance.
There is a very viable path for you to get your start as a quant dev +-2 years of your graduation. It’s completely on you whether or not you’re willing to put in the work to maintain a strong GPA and nail interviews.
Sure why not, but likely the CS degree alone will get you past the CV filter, and from then on the only thing that matters is if you have the skills or not.
Unless you want to be a software engineer, try to take as much difficult math as possible. You want the skill of being able to learn difficult abstract topics relatively quickly that only math gets you. Getting a CS minor will be enough to pass quant interviews/understand tools used in industry from a technical/performance perspective. Plus, doing a math degree makes getting into and doing grad school much easier if not simply being the only option.
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