Thanks for having me on Dimitri, I hope I can improve that audio quality on my side next time we organise to chat!

@Yossef_M

2 ай бұрын

Thank you, Johnathon for giving us such useful information especially since you have quite an unorthodox career path.

@goodlack9093

2 ай бұрын

A great conversation here! I've followed you for a while now, please keep up your work:)

@hugowesley4074

2 ай бұрын

Is this the software design channel you're referencing? @arjancodes

As a chemical engineering graduate who did industrial placement in petrochemicals but now work in capital markets technology, this interview is a goldmine. Thanks a lot!

@DimitriBianco

2 ай бұрын

That's one reason I love doing these interviews. Most quants come from some sort of engineering or math ground. Many students don't know the career exists.

@JerryR2001

2 ай бұрын

@@DimitriBianco I had no idea about this field as a traditional finance undergrad! Crazy, I know. Now going back to undergrad school in the fall at DePaul University looking to get a math undergrad as I have always loved pure math and stats as well. Then, will hopefully look to get into either Stevens, UIUC, or maybe even Berkley for Financial Engineering. Your videos help a ton. Thanks!

@SebastianCoetzee

2 ай бұрын

Why did you decide to switch careers away from chemical engineering? I did chem eng undergrad, worked as a process design engineer in the alcohol industry for a year, and then realised the chem eng role is 5% engineering and 95% project management. So I became a software engineer instead and was earning 4x my (very low) chem eng salary within 2 years. Chem Eng is such a mature industry. It's not exciting to work in at all. Universities are clueless as to the real demand for chemical engineers as well so there's an over-supply of graduates.

Wow, my favorite two quant youtubers.

I like Jonathan, learned from him a lot, specifically about weather derivatives. God bless him

@DimitriBianco

2 ай бұрын

I was also learning a lot about the energy side as I've never worked in that area.

@6Ligma

2 ай бұрын

@@DimitriBianco God bless you too Dimitri. Honestly, I feel like I get better with every video of your channel.

This was so informative and fun!

Very informative talk. Interestingly enough, I found QuantPy’s channel a little less than year ago, and I have been loving his videos. Also, it was only like few weeks ago when I found your channel Dimitri, and here we are now, both of yous talking about all the things I find interesting for an hour and a half. Thank you so much to the both of you for all the good content you put out. I have certainly learned a lot from you guys.

Been following QuantPy and his tutes for a while. Great guy.

Loved the interview, wanna see more videos like this!

Amazing interviewer, you let the guest speak. Thank you

great video Dmitri and Jonathon! Your channel has became a recent fav of mine! Keep it up 😊

Great convo! Learned quite a lot

I’m here, appreciating the truth telling. 🤗

Software Engineer here: I've been using various different languages over the last 10 years including Ruby, JS, Golang, and for many years Python. I feel like writing code in a language like Python is an exercise in discipline and sophistication. It allows you to do things very dynamically which is great for prototyping but you have to be a lot more disciplined with annotating types (python 3.5+) and having them statically checked using something like mypy if you want to have robust production code. I hear you on the object-oriented design principles etc. but the longer I write code the more I realise: plain old functions are great, functions are easy to understand if they don't have side-effects, and most importantly functions are easy to delete and replace. Try to write code that's easy to delete and replace, and the next guy will thank you.

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I’ve never heard of this guy, I’ll definitely check out his channel! Also, great interview!

@reubenmarfo9855

Ай бұрын

Then you’re not a quant😊

@ABSTRACTSHNITZEL

Ай бұрын

@@reubenmarfo9855 I never said I was. I’m subscribed to this channel so I can learn about being a quant.

Hi Dimitri, I know you don't like talking about buy side firms and hfts and stuff. The reason why a lot of people get sucked into courses, is that top firms do hire undergrads as quant traders and researchers(maybe 10% of their total hires). Its just that these undergrads are math geniuses like IMO or USAMO or Putnam ranks or they go to top math/CS programs with multiple software engineering, research and ML internships. Even then these people first get internships as quant researchers then the firms take almost a year to train them to be good at their job. I know a handful of people who became quants as undergrads, but they have very impressive backgrounds. It would be great if you can make a video on this, going through Linkedin and showing your audience that for the average person masters is their best shot.

@davidc4408

2 ай бұрын

Best background for average person would be math undergrad and masters financial mathematics with some related internship

@leonmozambique533

2 ай бұрын

MFE is not the best shot lol. So much misinformation 🤣

@davidc4408

2 ай бұрын

@@leonmozambique533 what do you think is?

@NK-fe3md

2 ай бұрын

@@leonmozambique533 I don’t know about MFE specifically, IMO master in CS or math or Physics helps as long as it’s researche based

Was it ArjanCodes? I couldn't quite hear.

@DimitriBianco

2 ай бұрын

Yes. Here is a link as well: www.youtube.com/@ArjanCodes

Hey Dimitri, will you be coming to the Spring Princeton Quant Conference? Would love to see you there.

@DimitriBianco

2 ай бұрын

Unfortunately no. I was invited however I already agreed to present at another school. I really enjoyed the Princeton conference last year.

@samadsyed5396

2 ай бұрын

@@DimitriBianco Where will you be presenting?

This is the first time I have ever heard someone organically refer to IB

@Apuryo

2 ай бұрын

yeah I was surprised. I hated that doing IB the mere mention gave me ptsd😅

Goats meeting each other 🤩🤩

@DimitriBianco

2 ай бұрын

There should be some future chats as well. We had a list of questions and didn't even cover half. It was fun just chatting with another quant who is used to being in camera as well.

Why the re-upload? 🤔

@DimitriBianco

2 ай бұрын

It was only uploaded once. I had it as "unlisted" which means only people with the link can view it. I did this so Jonathon could review it first before it went public. However, since I added it to my Interview playlist, people could watch it there first.

Great video Dimitri, if you have not already could you do a video on the full capabilities of R in your job? I've done a few projects for university but I don't think we are using the language to its fullest capabilities. Thanks in advance !

14:19 / 1:29:37

@youdonthavetoknow

2 ай бұрын

45:47 / 1:29:37

@youdonthavetoknow

2 ай бұрын

1:02:18 / 1:29:37

@youdonthavetoknow

2 ай бұрын

1:14:10 / 1:29:37

What is his annual salary and networth

The amount of adds makes this nearly unwatchable. Every 3-4 min for a 90 min video.