[vostok]

It's pretty well known that top tech companies pay more than top banks. SWE interns at top tech companies will make more than trading interns at top banks and entry-level SWEs at top tech companies will make more than entry-level traders at top banks.

[_bykf]

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[vostok]

Is your top trading firm a bank? If not, I am confused which part of my comment is "not true at all".

Also, $120k pro-rated is about right for what top tech companies are paying so it sounds like you just happened to not get those offers.

[_bykf]

Is there any way that I can privately chat with you? I will soon have to decide whether to get into HFT or traditional SWE work. I have a good idea of what a traditional SWE career path entails, but HFT is quite obfuscated (from my position).

[vostok]

Can you respond to this message with an email address or put one in your profile? Feel free to use a temporary email address, but I won't say anything controversial anyway as I'm not interested in losing my job.

[_bykf]

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[vostok]

Sent you an email. I'm not going to reveal anything proprietary, but happy to answer any general questions.

[_bykf]

You're right. I argued against something totally unrelated to what you said. The places I'm talking about are not banks.