So You Want To Be A Wall Street Programmer?
by Andrey, Butov · first published 2006
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If anyone's wondering what it's like to work as a programmer for a wall street firm, check out the book 'So You Want to be a Wall Street Programmer' by Andrey Butov. Very informative and insightful book about the field. Here's a link: http://www.amazon.com/You-Want-Wall-Street-Programmer/dp/184... I work for a small options-market making firm,…
on “Banker bonuses will be exceptionally large this year” ↗…competent C++ or Java programmer you shouldn't have a problem getting a job in the financial sector, especially if you're good at things like multi-threading, etc. There's a couple of books I'd recommend "So You Want To Be a Wall Street Programmer?" by Andrey Butov (a good overview but pretty light, you should be able to read it in a couple of hours) and "capital markets for quantitative professionals" by Alex Kuznetsov (a much heftier book but…
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