Having trouble deciding if I want to stay at a small HF as a quant or take my Big 4 Tech Consulting offer.

Recent grad from a target school and very fortunate to have my experiences.

In 2023 I did a summer internship in Big 4 Tech Consulting (tech transformation for bank clients, critical IT in the likes of BlackRock Aladdin or JPM SecDB). I liked the practice, team, and clients, and I chose to graduate early and spend a gap semester at home to spend time with my family before starting this jo

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job. However, my full time return offer was pushed by about a year, leaving me more than a year at home to sit around and explore other opportunities (including a management consulting gig and recently this quant role).

My current quant role is more middle office, i.e. building models for the traders, monitoring strategies, and maintaining data pipelines for a global macro hedge fund with about $200mm AUM. I like it, but the team is tiny (less than 5 people) and the tech stack is not the newest.

The comp is similar, with the quant role around 20% higher. Long term I’m worried that the Big 4 role would give me more exposure to not only tech stack, but also more finance and chances to meet senior leadership as the clients are very esteemed banks (I sat in on some boardroom calls with CEOs and other execs as an intern).

I appreciate your thoughts, thank you all so much.

Stay at the fund and work insanely hard

The quant roles sounds more promising tbh

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