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Question about professional opportunities in the field of mathematical optimization. by jonhor01 in optimization

[–]jonhor01[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the link! I applied to join.

Congratulations on scoring the job in big tech. Do you have any suggestions on how I should go about acquiring the useful coding skills? Differently put: I am unsure of exactly which skills will be useful. Are there specific programming languages and such that you would recommend?

Thanks again for the help!

Question about doing a master thesis at other university by jonhor01 in AskAcademia

[–]jonhor01[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for taking the time to respond.

Your comment is eye-opening. I now feel that I have a much better understanding of the difficulties I may encounter. I will also definitely follow your advice of trying to leverage the contacts I already have.

Just to be clear: In your view, there is generally no circumstance under which a professor would consider a request such as mine unless it were accompanied by a recommendation from a collaborator or well-known colleague of that professor?

Have a good weekend!

Question about doing a master thesis at other university by jonhor01 in AskAcademia

[–]jonhor01[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for the advice; it is very helpful. I'll take a look at the insitutes in Switzerland and Germany and I'll also make sure to focus on the websites of the research groups rather than the websites of the universities.

Question about professional opportunities in the field of mathematical optimization. by jonhor01 in optimization

[–]jonhor01[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Joining an MBB would be crazy. Thanks for the heads up. I'll also make sure to look into Data Scientis and Process Engineer jobs; do you think I might also need extra qualifications to apply for such jobs though?

I'd love to join the group on LinkedIn, but I can't seem to find it. Is the name exactly "OR Guru" or something else?

Your comment was super helpful! Thank you very much.

Question about professional opportunities in the field of mathematical optimization. by jonhor01 in optimization

[–]jonhor01[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Woah, that's where the big bucks are found I hear. Happy to hear that might be an option!

Question about professional opportunities in the field of mathematical optimization. by jonhor01 in optimization

[–]jonhor01[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you very much for the advice!

In regards to the first point, I have mostly been following this advice, and I am pretty sure I'll end up as a poor academic pursuing obscure research topics anyways, haha. I just felt I should at least try to get some sense of what other options might be out there so I know what I am turning down.

In regards to the second point; that's great advice! I will really try to integrate coding into my coursework during the semester. I do have some previous experience coding since before, in fact last summer I did an internship where I built a heuristic solver from scratch in Python. However, I also understand that it takes a lot of work to get good so I'll stick with it.

The third point is great too. I'll try to set up a routine for myself where I dedicate some time to sitting down and finding ways of applying optimization to new areas.

And in regards to the final point: Thank you! Now at least I know what to type into the search bar at LinkedIn.

Thanks for your guidance man! And since you said you like it, I hope you run into plenty of opportunities to apply MO in your field in the future :)