Hi Everyone, I am a recent graduate with a finance degree and some prior trading experience. I’m looking to break into the quant trading industry, but I do not have much of a programming or technical background. Upon doing research I saw programs such as Python and C++ are essential to a lot of quant roles. Would anyone happen to have any suggestions on good certification courses for these programs or happen to have any advice on entering the quant trading industry. Thank you

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You're going to need more than a certificate. If you're coming from a non-target background, a MS, maybe even PhD in CS from a T15 engineering school will be required for your resume to get a second look. Out of all career paths, quant trading (and quant dev to an extent) is the most competitive career path I've seen from my undergrad class and friend group in tech/finance

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