Non-investing careers at large HFs (operations, infra, strategy, tech, etc.)

Anyone here who could have pursued an investing career at a large single- or multi-manager shop (think Citadel, P72, Balyasny, DE Shaw, Two Sigma, etc.), but chose to do something else instead? E.g., operations, infra, strategy, tech, etc.?

  1. What do you do?
  2. What did you do before?
  3. Why not investing? Not interested? Not the right background? Something else?
  4. What is the career progression and comp potential?
  5. Do you like the job, the culture, the people?
  6. Do you feel valued by the firm?
  7. Anything else?
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