I have about 7 years of full time experience on my resume, being in most places a functioning individual contributor. In the startup I have been able to explore

I have about 7 years of full time experience on my resume, being in most places a functioning individual contributor. In the startup I have been able to explore other skills such as management and interaction with other parts of the business, all while being highly technical. In your shoes, I don't know what I would choose, I don't know what to expect from the financial world. Money surely sounds nice. As a further data point: if the interviews at Google/FB/... were not so crazy, and if I were given some sort of choice on the area to work on at those companies, I would have definitely tried the interview with them as well, but what I liked about these hedge funds is that I was interviewing for a specific role and so the interview process was pretty much focused around that, without anyone asking me to code an rb tree on a whiteboard.