Seeing you all post these crazy TC have me wanting to switch careers.
Tips anyone?
TC: 105k
YOE: 4 years
Currently at Goldman Sachs as a fund manager
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If you want to get into adjacent careers that pay well but not as much as SWE, data science and analytics is your best bet. Much easier to break into as long as you have at least some sort of quantitative background and can do some coding.
You’ll see a lot of comments here telling you to give it time and/or how some find manager somewhere makes 1m or some shit.
Three points:
1. Outliers make that much in finance, as you must know. Randos in tech make >150k. Often close to 200k
2. Real killer is the hours worked. Unless you’re in horrible teams at certain companies, you’re masking these salaries for working 40hrs a week at most. Often less. I worked 2 hours today
3. Who is more valuable in 2021, a finance person or a finance person who knows technology?
Also do you have six months of free time to study 13 hours everyday? Or 5k hours to spend on studying ? Followed by another six months of just doing algorithms ? Some people who did this dont even make that much TC because of selection bias