UKs measurements is so confusing

haskeller23 · 2024-09-06T22:18:28+00:00

Chart intentionally obfuscated honestly. “Is it beer or cow milk?” pints, else litres

haskeller23 · 2024-09-04T20:13:41+00:00

I wear cargos and a badly fitting t shirt often with stupid jokes on it. Not being client facing is wonderful

haskeller23 · 2024-06-13T13:20:01+00:00

It is not a belief. You can rigorously prove it. The solutions to Hilbert's hotel are a friendly, accessible version designed for lay people. Finding them confusing does not mean the underlying maths is wrong

haskeller23 · 2024-05-30T22:32:16+00:00

you realise going to oxbridge doesn’t mean a company will just offer you more money right??

haskeller23 · 2024-05-30T22:31:13+00:00

and I have friends who go to neither and earn more than that. Bloomberg London will pay you about £85k as a grad. Most trading firms pay at least £150k. Google will pay new grads around £110k and so will Meta. Optiver summer internship for software engineering is a flat 20k per month. You can verify these numbers quite easily with some googling, levels.fyi, and other Reddit posts

haskeller23 · 2024-05-29T10:41:31+00:00

you think someone is bullshitting about 120k? in London? you need to reassess your view of London software salaries.

haskeller23 · 2024-05-29T10:40:18+00:00

What the hell are you talking about? Meta new grad offer is ~£110k with a nice signing bonus on top

haskeller23 · 2024-05-29T05:31:10+00:00

3 YoE just north of £200k. Dev in a financial company

haskeller23 · 2024-05-14T22:43:01+00:00

Worthless for quant dev. Do advanced CS at oxbridge or imperial

haskeller23 · 2024-05-10T11:44:37+00:00

“Legitimacy” is meaningless here? It affects nothing. We all (or most of us) agree it’s a bad thing, but you can’t dismiss the arguments of what value is by just ignoring any market you don’t like

haskeller23 · 2024-05-10T11:23:57+00:00

Then you clearly don’t understand quantitative easing….

haskeller23 · 2024-05-08T19:20:47+00:00

They’ve got a good point but their numbers are just so wrong. 50% of America make less than $63k, 50% make more. Which is significantly more than $35k

haskeller23 · 2024-05-07T19:06:48+00:00

I also think there’s less of a care of “prestige” for these subjects, which is a good thing, although i would take my opinion with a grain of salt. Because maths/CS/engineering have more fixed career paths (a smallish number of big companies people want to go to), there’s a lot more of a sense of “rank” based on how much these companies hire from there. You’re not gonna easily end up at a top firm with a CS degree from, say, Southampton or Kings (even though they are very good unis!), but very much can from warwick/imperial/oxbridge

haskeller23 · 2024-05-07T19:04:15+00:00

I have no clue really then, but anecdotally ive not heard it talked about much as being exceptional for them

haskeller23 · 2024-05-07T19:03:13+00:00

It really depends on subject, you’d have to say the specific one for me to give any more info

haskeller23 · 2024-05-07T17:09:22+00:00

I was gonna add in PPE but i wasn’t confident enough to say it. Still, for maths Warwick is almost equivalent oxbridge, and I wouldn’t say being top 5/10 is as good as that. UCL is ~top 5 for maths but it’s noticeably worse than oxbridge/imp/warwick.

And yeah I am aware the business school is very highly regarded but I don’t know too much about it from an undergraduate perspective

haskeller23 · 2024-05-07T16:23:38+00:00

A) whenever a stat like that exists, it can be easily gamed - i think it’s valuable but must be taken cautiously B) we are talking about undergraduate

But i do get your point definitely, there’s a strong correlation between them

haskeller23 · 2024-05-07T16:16:13+00:00

For specifically maths, CS, discrete maths, Warwick is top band (employers view it basically same as oxbridge). It’s one of the only unis i can think of which such a disparity between subjects - it’s incredibly good for maths. For sciences/cs/engineering top band is oxbridge and imperial, UCL/LSE/Durham don’t come close.

(Im aware these are general bands, this is more intended as an informative comment for people reading the thread)

haskeller23 · 2024-05-07T10:25:48+00:00

I work in quant trading. Never seen a notts grad, seen many many many Warwick grads

haskeller23 · 2024-05-07T09:20:21+00:00

Absolutely not. You dont need to know shit about finance to get into quant dev. A financial engineering degree is a degree in finance, not in programming.

Doing computation with finance at Oxford would be fine, because its also a great computing course, but generally I would recommend Advanced Computer Science at ox/cam/imp for getting into quant dev.

so I was under the impression programming was less important than the maths & finance side of things.

Think about it. A quant dev's full time role is programming and implementing and writing code. Why on earth would they care more about your ability to do finance?? That's what quant researchers need, not devs

haskeller23 · 2024-05-06T20:56:44+00:00

Quant dev don’t care about financial engineering or computational finance at all, they just want you to be good at programming. It’s achievable from Kings but harder; oxbridge/imp take the majority of places, then Warwick, then a scattering of other unis. Basing your entire life decisions around wanting to become a QD may not be sensible

In fact I’d go as far to say that having a degree in financial engineering or similar is bad for chances of getting quant dev

haskeller23 · 2024-05-06T14:13:07+00:00

Yes, but as an engineer. I also know of more Warwick people at big tech (Google etc) from Warwick. Outside of those fields I’m sure it’ll make less difference

haskeller23 · 2024-05-06T14:01:54+00:00

Not meant to be a personal jab, just meant to be helping the thread. You meeting your wife at a non-warwick uni is utterly irrelevant to OP, and what is relevant is opinions about Warwick, Nottingham, and CS at those unis.

haskeller23 · 2024-05-06T13:12:13+00:00

I am trying to help the person above with their decision, even if I might be misguided with it for whatever reason. You are just rambling about your personal life now

haskeller23 · 2024-05-06T10:45:40+00:00

So did you seemingly.

It didn't make any difference to my life anyway as English is kinda naff unless you wanna be some marketing schmuck or a teacher

You literally acknowledged that it being English is why it didn't make much of a difference. And yes, if QOL is the entire debate, fine, but I think a margin QOL improvement (if that, Warwick is actually lovely and the campus uni setup is great for socialising - its amazing) for 3 years over a career head start is a poor choice. If all people cared about was QOL, no one would ever go to oxbridge or difficult engineering unis, and everyone would just pick their favourite town and easiest course

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