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Re:Wall Street Battles Silicon Valley for Tech Geeks by Locke1689 on Tuesday January 18, 2011 @03:48AM (#2115142)
FWIW, I just turned down an internship at a Chicago HFT company to work for Google this summer. I found the interview process and working conditions to be pretty similar to the tech industry, actually. The clincher for me was that I think it's easier to go tech -> finance than the other way around.
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Re:Wall Street Battles Silicon Valley for Tech Geeks by loewenskind on Tuesday January 18, 2011 @04:22AM (#2115211)
I'm not so sure this is the case. Even though finance is usually an easier environment (e.g. the markets aren't open 24/7 so the apps usually don't have high availability) the people hiring there think that if you haven't worked in finance you can't work in finance.
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Re:Wall Street Battles Silicon Valley for Tech Geeks by Locke1689 on Tuesday January 18, 2011 @01:20PM (#2116752)
Fair enough. I haven't really decided what I want to do after I finish my MS.
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