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And that's why I think finance is smarter.

They've long understand that there are the finance analysts on the one hand and the software dev on the other. They get both and make them work together.

Looking for 5 rare skills in a single person is bound to disappointment: maths, statistics, programming, large scale systems, production.

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Companies that have a research division and a separate engineering team to implement the research ideas are rarely successful. Anyone engineer good enough to do the implementation will figure out they can build something better without the input of the researchers. Microsoft and Yahoo both had great research teams whose ideas rarely saw the light of day.

I didn't say to put them in two separate divisions. Put both guys in the same place, working closely with each other.

Any engineer will quickly figure out that he's out of his depth in the maths & statistics. Any mathematician will quickly figure out that he's out of his depth in the system building.

And this is why a lot of trading desks would couple a trader with a quant with a technologist.

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