alt Hacker News> US folks coming out of university optimize for money and head for things like finance...
Not really, and I say this as someone who works in VC with peers in PE, Growth Equity, and other segments of high finance.
If you have the resume to get hired as an IB Analyst you will also get hired as a new grad SWE or APM at OpenAI, Google, or Roblox where they would earn the same or more than as an IB analyst with chiller work hours.
People overestimate finance salaries - it's the same as big tech with worse hours.
> And if the Yanks...
I don't think you live here in the States or Canada and as such haven't experienced our job market.
Please butt out of the convo.
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> Have you experienced the US job market outside of the Valley and NYC
Yes.
Before I switched to VC, I've managed teams and hiring for teams or product lines that reported to me in North Carolina, Georgia, Virgina, Texas, Washington, Massachusetts, and Colorado, and helped open my previous employer's Prague and Warsaw offices.
I also started my career outside of Bay Area or NYC tech before my stint as a staffer.
Additionally, the majority of tech hiring in the US remains consolidated in a handful of geographical locales [0].
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Have you experienced the US job market outside of the Valley and NYC?
Judging from your career path, you shifted from tech to money towards the start. I hope you were a good boss when you were starting up, as such people are rare and wondrous creatures. Forgive my choice of jargon - I divide the world into people who do the work and those who talk about the work. And the latter group tends to set the rules and collect the profits. I preferred the hacking. And tech != STEM, as biotech/pharma is rather different than selling ads and harvesting information.
And FWIW, I've worked all over N America.