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Re:Ask HN: What's that one thing you would do, if you got to... by nforest on Monday May 04, 2020 @10:31PM (#23075768)
This is suprising. I'm at the start of a data/ML engineering career and working at hedge funds that use technological methods seem very appealing to me. They are known for topping FAANG compensation offers and the work seems innovative and interesting tech-wise.
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Re:Ask HN: What's that one thing you would do, if you got to... by decafninja on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @10:26AM (#23080333)
I don't disagree with you. I know there are elite hedge funds, as well as certain niches in finance tech that pay extremely well. It sounds like you're there.

But I'm not in one of them, and neither are most SWEs in finance. We're justing doing line-of-business .NET or Java.

Thankfully I've managed to worm my way into a niche (JavaScript/React/Python) which, while not exactly super-lucrative in the finance world, is at least much more marketable to SV tech companies than doing C# and WPF.

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