I have a grad offer for Amazon SDE, should i throw it away and go for IB?

Hi everyone,

I have always been way more strongly interested in business than software. I'm about to finish university, and I spent my last summer working as a software developer intern at Amazon (AWS). I hated working as a software developer at Amazon: I felt slower than everyone else at coding, disliked having to constantly work with nerds who had terrible communication skills and frustrated with the fact that we never had the opportunity to actually manage customer relationships. I had a graduate offer, but there seems to be no career development. The money is good (better than IB starting salaries), but it seems that it hits a ceiling pretty quickly (at around $250k from what i gather).

This year while at university I applied for graduate roles in IB at multiple banks, but failed to be shortlisted anywhere except Goldman Sachs, who wanted me for their quant position. It was especially hard because the banks tend to hire out of their interns.

Should I reject amazon, do a masters in finance and apply for IBD? Or should I work for amazon for 2 years, do an MBA and apply at that point? To make things even more complicated, I'm working on a startup too...

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

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As a CS major who had CS internships and decided to go into banking, go for it. Personally I think SWE isn't the most interesting career. Do you go to a target school/have the ability to get into one?

 

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