Bridgewater vs. D.E. Shaw vs. startup

I’m having troubling deciding where to intern. I’m currently have offers for a software dev internship at BW, a generalist intern at DE Shaw, and a software dev intern at a startup in SV. I’m looking to do quant trading next year and I’m unsure what would be best to do this summer.

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