I'm considering an internship with an HFT company (Cit, HRT, JS) and a unicorn (Stripe, Figma, Databricks). This will be my last internship, and most likely will transition into full time at the company I choose to intern at. I enjoyed my time at FAANG, though I want to explore HFT. Will it be more difficult to transition from HFT back to Tech (if I don't like it), or vice versa?
Go HFT. Make insane money in your early 20s then switch to tech to coast. If you’re good then the cash comp alone at HFT will beat the limited upside of any of those “unicorn” stocks. HFTs recruit heavily from a yearly pool of top new grads, after that they poach from one another. Recruiting from big tech is a backup option for them, unless you have highly specialized, relevant, and proven skills. But you need to be pretty lucky to land at the right team at the right time for that.
How do hfts poach from eachother when there a non competes. Js hrt etc can not poach from citadel and vice versa
You can just wait out your noncompete. Enforcement is also discretionary. But on the flip side, people usually aren’t poaching new grads with only a year or two under their belt.
As difficult as applying and answering some coding questions & leadership principles.