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I’m a consultant looking to do an MBA next year to ease my transition in the US market (I’m from Europe). If I manage to end up at programs with quant finance concentrations like wharton or booth, is it possible to switch to quant finance post MBA? I have an MSc in Robotics Engineering and willing to put the effort in the next 3 years to score this
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You need to know proof based statistics, real analysis, stochastic calculus, measure theoretic probability, and leetcode medium to hard data structures and algorithms questions.
Also, BB banks are tier 3 places for quants. They price exotic derivatives that no one actually trades. No transferable skis. Bridgewater is tier 2 simply because of their fundamentalist origins and philosophy. Citadel Securities (market making) is legit and tier 1. Citadel the hedge fund is tier 2.
What is common amongst all profiles is a strong quantitative background. You can find people from financial engineering background in these firms but they have a strong quantitative background. When I say quantitative, I am referring to Advanced probability and stats, machine learning, time series analysis and some coding background. I am sure they also check math/problem solving etc. So I would suggest if your sole goal is to be a Quant, go for MS in Applied statistics or Machine learning or Math or Computer Science but combined Statistics and probability and Machine learning courses (either through core or electives). The exact name of the degree won't be very relevant imo.
All the best.