Fastest Software Engineer to Portfolio Manager path?
Question: What's the fastest path to portfolio manager (manual, not automated)?
Left Blue, now Big Tech engineer w/great YOE & TC.
TC isn't most important.
Don't enjoy tech.
Love investing.
OK with many "hops" to achieve PM.
Challenges:
1) Old (middle age)
2) Family obligations
3) Engineering degree
Plan:
1) Get SDE job at Goldman etc
2) Internally transition to...Analyst?
3) Climb vertically towards PM
I'm particularly interested in feedbacks from any past/present Goldman vets...I have an upcoming SDE interview there at an "off the beaten path" USA office (i.e. not NYC etc).
Concerns:
1) Getting 'stuck' in a back office / "cost center" role with no opportunity for career change transition
2) Getting stuck in a backwater town
#finance #career #goldman #goldmansachs #jpmorgan
comments
Not impossible though but you must have top shelf networking skills.
Faster to drop tech and enter industry at a smaller firm as an analyst?
Pay cut would sting but enjoying work is far more important to me.
I'm looking to eventually land in something sorta like this https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/1830160108
Sell side trader is still pretty far from that with no clear path to it, right?
Does that Division have "PM" roles?
Along those lines, assuming there were no PM roles in this division, if I hired onto it anyway how hard would a lateral transfer to a different division be that had PM roles?
Lateralling to a different division is hard, but possible, and there is a formal process for it. You need to be good at your job (good reviews from your current team) and be good at networking outside your immediate team. Lateralling from a tech role into an investment role is extremely difficult.