I'm attracted to FIG because of their fintech arm and heard they do in-house modeling so sI will get some sort of technical experience which is something I want to have.
I'm attracted to tech because I am interested in the industry in general, so would want to be in something/industry I would like to cover.
Idk wtf to do or which one to go for.
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FIG is top of street but very brutal culture/hours
tech is good but not as good as GS and MS
would exit opps be similar, if i go to fig or tech, not sure what i want to exit to yet but I want to have options
A quick search around this forum will answer your question in more detail: FIG will pigeonhole you in terms of exits at the Associate level and above, especially compared to Technology or TMT
Is it just me or has anyone else never seen a FIG resume with an Interest/ Hobbies section??
Would recommend going for Tech:
1) Culture is way better. A lot of recent posts have shone lights on FIG's culture
2) If your interest in FinTech (very broad term) lies within payments, names like SQ, PYPL / buy-now-pay-later (pretty much the more interesting / up and coming side of FinTech), they are covered out of tech team
Thanks for the insight! and yes I would say that's where my interest lies. So I was wondering what is the difference is between the FTWAM team vs Fintech at the Tech team. I was told that the FTWAM team deals with crypto, payments, and BYPL as well.
FTWAM is mostly asset/wealth managers, more recently added crypto (think crypto might be covered mostly in FIG), but payments is mostly Tech and BNPL I want to say is mostly Tech at this point as well (additionally, GS/MS has better relationship with those names since Chase is so big in consumer unsecured credit so they don't do a ton of work on BNPL).
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