Where should I go for TCMAXX?
Founder, SWE 9 YoE, ML practitioner, love math and finance, no PhD. - Raised over $2M from investors. Created the idea, team, product. Rookie move, gave away too much equity to useless cofounders. Letting it run because of said biz partners. Product and people person. Told I am very charismatic. Considered buying them out but the size is already too big, I'm not paying them big bucks for fucking up. - STEM M.S., computational biology. I had better opportunities creating software products so I haven't been working in life sciences. Picked up great ML and business ops skills as a result. - Can SWE and LC with the best of them. Security certs. - Can be a pretty dang good manager. OKRs, coaching, professional development. My wife and I about to have our first baby. I'm going to promote a team member to my day to day responsibilities in the biz, keep the equity, and a board seat. Looking to pick up a W2 for a while to bring in baby cash. Wondering where I can get the best comp in this market. Which do you think is juiciest? 1. IC/SWE at BigTech 2. IC/SWE at Life Science (leverage knowledge, degree) 3. Product/Engineering Manager at BigTech (I generally think these people are bogus) 4. Finance (PE, VC, Bank, etc) 5. VC-Backed Startup CTO/VP (ugggh been there it hurts) 6. Software/ML Consulting (I actually like this but not really W2, highly competitive and low stability) 7. Security Position IC/Engineer/Manager 8. Bartender
Hedge funds, AI companies, Meta
Really, hedge funds? Cool suggestion, thank you.
If you are actually good at math, HFT can easily clear 7 figs. Most people who say they’re good at math aren’t good at math.
Obviously, math is a big discipline and no one who is "good at math" knows all fields. But I've been through the gauntlet and can hang with graduate level math. I didn't realize HFT quants had so much comp, but it makes sense as a relatively small portion of people can learn to do it. I'll look at some resources, but any idea what I should be looking at? Assuming probability, stats, stochastic calculus, uncertainty, risk management techniques...
That’s some Gigachad resume
Very kind of you to say so. I'm behind the 8 ball right now sweating. Godspeed
Chick fil a franchisee
I'm underqualified
Manager at Wendy’s.
Excellent choice. Frosty perks.