Looking for someone that knows 1st hand or at least through a friend.
I’m just curious because i think an awesome company would work for is google or other tech companies alike. I know google has a couple positions that recommend 4 years experience with MBS / Investment Grade Fixed Income / credit research.
very very few positions are open for someone purusing a CFA, based on requirements in job titles.
However I see a ton of positions for business analyst / finance analyst but these jobs seems more geared towards MBA?
My particular experience is in investment consulting, which i understand the mechanics of what the PM, research analysts, buy side traders do. But by no means am i as good as they are because it’s their speciality.
Does that put me in a SOL position when looking at those type of jobs as large tech companies? for credit analyst they’ll probably want an actual research analyst and for financial/operational analysis they’ll probably go with the MBA grad right?
any feedback or knowledge of how someone with their CFA fits into a tech company would be appreciative.
Business analyst for a tech company isn’t what you seem to think it is. It has almost nothing to do with financial analysis. Getting hired at any company requires that you have at least a basic understanding of what they do, and the position they occupy in their industry. Generally speaking, tech companies have no use for somebody with a CFA charter.
Nothing particularly special about tech companies and CFA.
CFA might be marginally useful for jobs in corporate treasury, and large tech companies will have this. Also, those companies like yahoo and google that have financial pages like yahoo finance might find use for a Charterholder when deciding what services to try to roll out.
Some software companies are specifically financial portals or financial software. Sme of them might value the charter.
But as a general rule, most tech companies wouldn’t care about the charter except as evidence that you can do something challenging (though they probably don’t know how challenging it is).
The real question is “Why would you expect them to value the charter? The CFA is a pretty specialized designation, and not targeted toward the tech industry in any special way.”