The skills that got you to that place won't get you any further, and you start to feel less autonomous because you're not able to get bigger ideas off the ground.
#Quant fund Patch#
You're less focused on tending your own patch than nurturing a whole ecosystem. "T his is where the runway of knowledge you learned at college begins to peter out," said Greenwood. You're also used to the notion you assimilated at university that upskilling is within your control and is simply the result of devoting more time to learning new languages or frameworks.īut as you move into mid-career, your purview widens and your sense of control is diminished. You're a "gardener" content with tending your patch. Why are mid-ranking engineers so (comparatively) unhappy? Greenwood says they dug deeper into the data and the issue became clear: "The essential concern was a perceived lack of agency and autonomy."Įarly in your engineering career, it's easy to feel that you have agency, said Greenwood.
What the data did suggest, as shown in the chart from Greenwood's presentation below, was that mid-career engineers can find themselves in an "uncanny valley" of woe. " But our data didn’t suggest that was the case." Mid-career should be the " most exciting time," said Two Sigma chief innovation officer Matt Greenwood in a career discussion last week. Two Sigma, the New York-based quantitative hedge fund which pays its software engineers anything from $240k and $412k according to Levelsfyi, surveyed its engineers and discovered that mid-ranking people were a bit unhappy.
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