I have a summer 2027 offer for an investment analyst role in Chicago and for a middle/back office role in NYC. Both are hedge funds and a more lean/smaller team. I want to ultimately be client facing and be in NYC and am stumped on which offer to take.
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Front office in Chicago, absolutely no question about it. Unless you want to have a career in middle/back office or want to work tremendously hard to have a small fraction of a chance at front office again.
not seeing why you'd ever go for the middle/back office... is there something we don't know
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