Asking for a friend. She's finishing her post-doc in theoretical physics, and sick of it. What's the best way for her to transition into software? Who's hiring people with non-coding, science backgrounds? Any recommendations you guys can share? Thanks TC pitiful (scholarships) ToE 10
Wall st. Used to. Inquire Renaissance capital.
Not as much now. When pricing credit derivatives was the rage , Wall St. loved physicists since their background was great for modeling credit derivatives trades. Now it’s all about getting megatons of data and running all sorts of statistical analysis and machine learning on it. Still if a physicist knows machine learning then they are gold.
PM at some place like Microsoft all you need is a pulse and an H1B
Data science. Insight data science boot camp only takes phd (candidates), and is the only data science boot camp top tech companies regularly hire from
Literally anyone. Physicists are good programmers and even better mathematicians.
Pretty sure R&D wings like MSR & Moonshot companies like Google X need physicists.
We hire physicists all the time. Mostly to do physics.
It's not the "physicist" part that is the problem it's the "non-coding" part. People with science PhDs who successfully transition into a tech career are usually those who had a lot of exposure to programming as part of their academic research. Boot camp is ok, but I think the best course of action is learning python and SQL, then getting internal referrals for data science positions. Your friend is probably going to hate that work though. Reference: I have a physics PhD and moved to tech.
RS staff? How do you like it?
Yeah, I am a physicist and all my phd friends would rather grow vegetables than become programmers - and programming of sorts is compulsory in any physics degree. Fortunately, with data science or finance one can still do some science. For once - econophysics is really cool and on the rise.
Remember: all science is either physics or stamp collecting. No one really want stamp collectors
SQ data science teams.
If she moves to data science, anyone will hire her, and being a quant will be even better paid.
Tons of DS’s with phd in physics. If she cant find a job after a few months she can also do Insight Data Science bootcamp (free but takes 3-4 months)