Quant role but from a non-quant background - has this ever been heard of before?

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What are you asking? BofA has tons of “quant” roles that are really data analyst roles where they simply make Tableau and do nothing with model development or any math light/heavy work at all

Yes definitely especially if you know how to program and screen models well. You may have to start in a more back office quant job but those still pay well like where I am we paid our masters/phd interns $140k base here in Charlotte NC and bonus is about $30k and up to $15k for relocation.

What do you mean by Quant role? I know many humanities majors in software/data engineering, analytics, BI, etc.

See above! Research focus

Are you asking if you don’t have a quant background, can you still get job in quant? If so, the answer is yes, people who are in quant now don’t just automatically have experience, had to start new at some point.

See above! It’s more about academic training

You won't know til you try. If you have the necessary expertise, then you'll be fine.

Yes. This is possible and doable. Do you have a target company?

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