Has anyone here been both a research quant in finance firm and a swe at FAANG? Which did you prefer? I feel like overall life could be better as a swe but intellectually and comp wise quant has an edge. Any perspective? I guess moving into high level IC or managment roles at FAANG could reach similar levels of comp?
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Banks are penny pinchers. shitty hardware and benefits, no perks, no free food, bonuses only come once a year so you lose a lot of your comp if you quit any time besides February... It's bad.
If you want the intellectual stimulation of doing something with math, just try to get involved in ML work.
TC is much higher in tech right now. Banks paid out big bonuses in 2009, but there's only so long they can string people along on the hope of repeating the 2009 numbers.
But IMHO being a quant without a phd is almost like a dead end (unless you’re a rockstar). The quants without phd that i’ve seen havent been able to land a quant role at top funds / prop shops. Meanwhile many devs, who have left, have gone to citadel / two sigma / fb / g / etc, and now making more than those quants