Headlands/Radix/Aquatic Quant SWE or OpenAI for new grad?

[sage garden]

Would love it if anyone can give explanation of their vote here:

[wet spoke]

If you're moneymaxxing t0 quant just can't be matched

that being said if you believe very heavily in OpenAI and a successful IPO ended up happening, you'd make a shit ton of money on that

[sage garden]

they're too big to ipo tho

[wet spoke]

What do you mean?

[sage garden]

they're already valuated at 200b

what's the chance that IPO is gonna 4x that

idk

[wet spoke]

i mean, if they actually achieve AGI or smth then it'll prolly go much higher

that's the bet ur taking

[flat ruin]

yeah the first year package is better at the quant firms, but I've worked at one, and also worked at an AI startup and I have to say the work was just much more interesting at the startup fwiw

[sage garden]

what quant firm if I may ask? and why is the ai startup work more interesting

[flat ruin]

can't say the name but it's not all that interesting working at an established trading firm, everything has already been solved, so it's a lot of maintaining. All the somewhat interesting work is done by a select few people. Compare that to something like an AI startup and you're really getting to push boundries, that still ofc depends on the team, but you're more likely to be in one that does.

[sage garden]

would you say the "establishedness" varies from company to company tho

and dependent on size