moving from chi to ny, no job lined up; where to look?

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directionless

I have to move east (no choice), but have no job lined up. I worked as a quant/strategist and programmer, but now I have to look for a job again. Can someone point me to the best places to apply?

I have not been following the job market for some time, but the recruiters are so full of crap and I cannot tell which place is any good, and everyone tries to stay secret. I do not want to spend 5 hours a day taking math and brainbench/knowledge tests for sh1++y places, and want to get a good/bad list up front.

Bad places:
- Business guy running tech
- Tech guys, no business sense
- Too quanty, but make no $
- Too little quanty, think everything is solved by OLS and averages
- Too programmery, worried about C++ standard, but not smart enough to know all features are not always good
- Too little programmery, everything is spaghetti code shi+
- High turnover
- Too cliquish
- Think C++ on resume = infrastructure all day, no trading
- More salary, less bonus [prefer low salary, bonus direct % of pnl]
- Almost all banks
- Think HFT can be "bought" with all off-the-shelf stuff
- So LFT they have time to appear on CNBC and talk about macro-econ

Willing to work outside trading if I must to avoid above, but would like suggestions.

Thanks.
 
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----crap....
----sh1++y places.....
----bad list.....
----Bad places.....(bad stuff).....CNBC and talk about macro-econ.
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Consider self-employment so that you don't have to tolerate other people's B.S. :cool:
 
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