I know that I am dying to move to a tech company in the bay area. 70+ hours of work a week are killing me
I don’t know that a finance role in a tech company is something that you should be enamored with. From what I understand, non-tech roles in tech companies can often be undervalued. Further, what’s exciting about doing FP&A at a tech company? I can understand the desire if you find a Corp Dev role at Google where you’re supplanting bankers and evaluating a potential M&A opportunities as the in-house banker, but those roles are few and far between (at least that I’m aware of). My thoughts - if you want to do finance, do it for a finance company / firm. That’s where you’ll learn the most, be valued most and most likely make the most money.
Pe/vc > Corp finance, but IB hours aren’t worth it
In case it helps... I believe a person should find his passion (as cliche as it sounds). I switched from engineering to corporate finance, post MBA, but after automating most of my work, I found it rather boring. LOVED strategy consulting, switched to corporate, then dabbled in PM & portfolio technology strategy... Some BD.. Now entrepreneurship which uses all of them functions... Been loving it since.