Timeline for "Industry"/Government jobs for mathematicians
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| Feb 25, 2021 at 0:52 | comment | added | ArB | Whatever you plan on doing, please don't use your mathematics skills to build surveillance technologies that will be used against black and brown people, please don't participate in developing technologies that will be used to bomb innocent villages. The US military, NSA etc is used specifically to destroy millions and millions of innocent lives. Please do understand what your work will be used for if you go in those sectors. | |
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| Jun 18, 2010 at 17:05 | vote | accept | Wilson | ||
| Jun 18, 2010 at 14:10 | comment | added | Timothy Chow | @Zen: No job is ever guaranteed. As a rule, it is much easier to get a job if you have personal connections, and GCHQ is no exception to the rule. | |
| Jun 18, 2010 at 9:51 | comment | added | Zen Harper | I am a UK national, with a reasonable Ph.D., but the evil GCHQ was very unfriendly at the test centre and rejected me. They didn't give any reasons, but it must have been the computerised psychology/security test, since their mathematical tests were pretty easy compared to hard graduate level stuff. So it doesn't matter how good a mathematician you are, you're not guaranteed to get a cryptography/code breaking job at your own country's version of the NSA/GCHQ/CIA/etc. | |
| Jun 18, 2010 at 1:28 | answer | added | Timothy Chow | timeline score: 38 | |
| Jun 17, 2010 at 17:40 | answer | added | Michael Greenblatt | timeline score: 8 | |
| Jun 17, 2010 at 17:13 | comment | added | Steve Huntsman | Ian--Most governments' cryptologic organizations hire mathematicians. See, e.g., the UK's Government Communications HQ, Communications Security Establishment Canada, the Australian DSD, etc. Of course they will have to be nationals though... | |
| Jun 17, 2010 at 16:57 | answer | added | Steve Huntsman | timeline score: 14 | |
| Jun 17, 2010 at 16:56 | answer | added | Ryan Williams | timeline score: 8 | |
| Jun 17, 2010 at 16:49 | comment | added | Wilson | Hi Ian, You are right. I am a US citizen, and so am interested also in opportunities only available to US citizens; of course other opportunities are also welcome, and it makes sense to distinguish the two types. | |
| Jun 17, 2010 at 16:44 | comment | added | Ian Morris | I like this question, but as currently phrased it seems to apply mainly to people who are US citizens. (Certainly those of us who are not US citizens will find the question "How about working at the NSA?" admits a very short answer.) I don't think that that necessarily makes the question inappropriate, but it might be nice to make this assumption explicit? | |
| Jun 17, 2010 at 16:41 | answer | added | Mykie | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jun 17, 2010 at 16:13 | answer | added | Benoît Kloeckner | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jun 17, 2010 at 16:07 | history | asked | Wilson | CC BY-SA 2.5 |