I see most of the postings which require you to have worked with Kafka/Cassandra/Hadoop.also most of the positions require you to have 5 years of work experience. How do people with 2 years experience get interviews there? Are there any teams which don't require you to have big data/streaming experience?
Does apple pay more than GS?
Depends on location , division , team , position profile(strat/trader/software engineer) , how critical is your work to the business etc.
Off course.... what about Swe vs Swe