Silicon Valley vs Wall Street in 2022

As there have been plenty of recent threads exploring comp, I want to take a different approach here.

Which path, between SWE at a top big-N or startup, and IBD at a BB/EB, is the most prestigious in 2022 and has the most future potential? If you could start over, which would you choose?

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I’d prefer quant/ML engineer/data scientist at either.

Pure software engineering is myopic and boring.  Looking for bugs in huge codebases is not fun at all.  Banking is way too sweaty, people weren’t meant to work that many hours.

With any of the three roles I listed, which overlap in many ways, you get the best of both worlds.  You get to use technical skills to drive impactful decision making.  Pay and hours are decent as well.

 

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