I'm 24 and just got my BSc in SW engineering, next step is either a graduate job in the financial sector or a Master's/PhD in information retrieval and machine learning. What would you do?
Ask HN: Graduate job in financial industry or PhD in IR and machine learning?
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Re: Ask HN: Graduate job in financial industry or PhD in IR and machine learning?
#2Unless you have funding and are debt free take the job.
Re: Ask HN: Graduate job in financial industry or PhD in IR and machine learning?
#3Unless you have funding and are debt free take the job.
Coincidentally, I do have funding and am debt free. What would you do?
Re: Ask HN: Graduate job in financial industry or PhD in IR and machine learning?
#4Unless you have funding and are debt free take the job.
Coincidentally, I do have funding and am debt free. What would you do?
Both are fulfilling roads to go down. It all depends on what kind of person you are and what you want out of life...
All I'll say is, if you get into academia make sure you do internships in industry, so you get to see both sides. All the best.
Re: Ask HN: Graduate job in financial industry or PhD in IR and machine learning?
#5'graduate job in financial industry' is too generic to give you any meaningful advice.
There are grad jobs that essentially involve writing a minimal amount of code, changing config files and doing support and there grad jobs that involve working on algorithmic trading systems. So, if I were you, I'd find out more about the job before deciding.