For me, it’s because I liked systems stuff at university. Scaling to and beyond the level of FAANG is pretty interesting and I’m not sure where else I would hav

For me, it’s because I liked systems stuff at university. Scaling to and beyond the level of FAANG is pretty interesting and I’m not sure where else I would have been able to work at that level. It’s also quite nice to be able to really dive deep into a specific area, although more diversity wouldn’t have been bad (for building longer term skills) Engineer productivity mattered a lot less, because straight out of university it’s not like I knew enough to be productive from the start anyway. Compensation-wise, finance tech pays a lot better, although is most cases it is a WLB tradeoff.