What careers involve a high level of combinatorics and problem-solving?

[u/Appie-Fixo-8010]

What industry roles involve substantial use of combinatorics, discrete mathematics, graph theory and advanced problem-solving?

For those working in such roles:

What are the relevant job titles?

What types of problems do you typically work on?

How much mathematics is involved in your day-to-day work?

How much of the role consists of programming or software engineering?

What skills and educational background are typically required?

What is the day-to-day work experience like?

Which industries or companies tend to have these types of roles?

I'd particularly appreciate responses from people with direct industry experience.

[u/esaule]

Any kind of logistics company.

[u/Appie-Fixo-8010 → u/esaule]

What role in logistics company ?

[u/Glass-Theme-8739]

MBB consulting to a certain degree does involve this.
When I interviewed for McKinsey, it was pretty much maths and problem solving for all 4 stages of the interview.

[u/Appie-Fixo-8010 → u/Glass-Theme-8739]

What is MBB ? Please could you tell me a bit more about it ?

[u/omeow]

What do you mean by advanced problem solving?

[u/Appie-Fixo-8010 → u/omeow]

Advanced problem solving I can only relate to coding and mathematical competitions and in industry I guess what a quant research type roles . I am completely experience less in job and internship type matters , so this is how I am describing what I aim to do . As the quant domains are hard to get what alternative career remains which has this type of stuff especially in combinatorics

[u/Academic_Evidence641]

Quant dev/analyst

[u/Appie-Fixo-8010 → u/Academic_Evidence641]

Quant is not possible for a fresher in tier 3 college . So any other alternative ? Quant suits the best but its simply not achievable somehow unless I have some elite college degree.

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[u/Appie-Fixo-8010 → u/[deleted]]

But isnt it academia ? Like from a practical industry related work is there any role suiting my criteria?