No-name credit fund or average SWE (non-finance related) for freshman year?

Should I take a SWE internship at an average (not big-N) non-finance company, or an internship at a no-name credit lending fund for my freshman summer, given that my goal is junior year BB IBD internship? I'll also be doing experimental physics research at my university. I attend a HYPSM if that matters

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