Why stuck in finance

Apr 19 9 Comments

Looking at posts here. It’s pretty clear coding jobs make more. Why not just attend a coding boot camp and pivot to tech?

If anyone is interested, I can refer at Intuitive. Been here for five years and stock based compensation has been amazing

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  • Nestle
    Schokolade

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    Schokolade
    Asking myself pretty much everday. Good point!
    Apr 19 2
    • You guys are all good in numbers. The ones that work in faang must be pretty smart at interviewing too.
      Apr 19
    • Nestle
      Schokolade

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      Schokolade
      I am an engineer originally (not software) and worked as an engineer for 2 years before moving to finance. I learned a lot from finance and developed good strategy skills. I moved the corporate ladder relatively fast, but for the last few years, I don’t feel like I am being challenged enough. Finance is a support function, so there are not a lot of senior-level opportunities for us.
      The problem is I am very experienced. It is not easy to downlevel yourself even if the pay is good. And if you want to go back to finance, this change won’t help you. So, any move should be very smart and well thought out.
      Apr 19
  • I’ll tell you why I personally didn’t make that decision to go into tech/swe even in college. Soft skills and leadership.

    This may not be true, but I personally felt as though the career path that would help me become who I wanted to be overall was finance. Being able to understand businesses, do lots of presentations in front of key leaders, and learn the language of business (accounting) while at it appealed to my goals. I hope to transition in to hopefully having my own businesses down the road and I think the skills in corporate finance applied more to that dream than something like swe at least for myself.
    Apr 19 0
  • I get your point. Blind is also not representative of the majority of people (salary wise). I love working in Finance. I do Strategy, M&A, and FP&A (as one role). I think if people are into coding they should definitely pivot. They could maybe even be a Finance coding SME. I do a little VBA, SQL but overall I’m happy with what I do🤷🏽‍♀️. While it’s not 400-300K. TC is around 200K and based on the majority of people on and off Blind that’s not bad.🙂
    Apr 19 0
  • Google
    ilikeyou

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    ilikeyou
    Meh, I make enough to be happy and still more than many. It’s not all about compensation though, as many others here have said, finance is a cool thing to do because you’re effectively a business multi-tool. Also, there’s a lot of job security in finance as long as you’re good at what you do.

    Also TC or GTFO
    6d 0
  • Let people do what they want OP phew
    4d 0