Wall Street Quants - Yay or Nay?
I just came across and attended a call by WSQ since I got curious. Frankly don't think I got much chance to be a quant since I didn't study math (did Econs), and just somehow bumbled into a govt-funded equity research role after graduation. They said they would let their so called mentors choose who they might want to work with, and may lower their fees by 2,100 pounds(?) from 5,900 pounds(?) (i.e., likely to 3,800 pounds). Converted to SGD (currency where i'm at), that's still around 6.5k though.
I mean like, I'm not sure if an SG quant firm would really take up someone that somehow paid for a course and pay that guy a 6-figure salary? Not sure if I can pick up the math and coding skills in a few months too??? Or if the so called mentors would be willing to continue to work with me as I work thru WSQ's materials.
I don't know. Is the course really good? Those that paid for and attended it - did it work out for you or did you just not care halfway through?
I'm not exactly keen on quant but just wanted to do more math and quant seems to be math-ish so... and maybe quant might be related to some econs too. In my FT role I've asked Claude to make simple web scrapers or json-to-csv convertors, not quite sure if these are even relevant.
Flattering though if the program would give me a genuine chance as breaking out of my currently not-so-good salary trajectory
Posted Apr 3, 2026, 4:44 PM UTC