Quant Algo Trader on IAmA Reddit: job search and things like that.

This is a link to an algo trader who posted an IAmA on reddit. He seems pretty intelligent and has answered a lot of questions about job search and things like that.

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/mlkxe/iama_…

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There's actually a few decent subreddits.

r/programming, r/compsci, r/finance, r/math, r/statistics are all ones worth skimming through.

 

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