What is better: hedge fund or tech? (comp, hours, pto, team, growth, etc)

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Depends on what you’re interested in. The only real reason you’d want to choose a Hedge Fund over tech is if you’re interested in finance. Comp, particularly adjusted for WLB is far better in Tech.

The exception to this rule is Market Making/HFT, but that wasn’t what you asked about.

Tech can be extremely fruitful without the 80 hour grind of getting your feet wet in finance

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