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I have the opportunity to intern at a hedge fund as an trading system IT intern and I will be helping the traders in database migration and building low-latency databases.
Pros:
- Traders and researchers are friendly people and are willing to teach
- Hedge fund is willing to hire high performing interns as fulltime staff
- Task-oriented culture that focuses on getting things done rather than hours worked
- It could be my only trading-related internship on my resume if I do take this up
Cons:
- It sounds like grunt work to me. Database migration isn't exactly a sexy job.
- Takes up 3 months of my time
Opportunity costs:
- I could have used the time to focus on my own web development business or network with people.
Do you think I should take it if my aim is to get into trading / quant / quant development?
Pros:
- Traders and researchers are friendly people and are willing to teach
- Hedge fund is willing to hire high performing interns as fulltime staff
- Task-oriented culture that focuses on getting things done rather than hours worked
- It could be my only trading-related internship on my resume if I do take this up
Cons:
- It sounds like grunt work to me. Database migration isn't exactly a sexy job.
- Takes up 3 months of my time
Opportunity costs:
- I could have used the time to focus on my own web development business or network with people.
Do you think I should take it if my aim is to get into trading / quant / quant development?
