Which job is better?

Need some guidance from u experience crowd, would a job doing IT at

1) Goldman Sachs doing C++ as a Support/Developer in Commodities IT

2) Merrill Lynch as C# Lead Developer in Fixed Income IT

There are both equally attractive one being the company, the other being the role, pls help?

i suggest you go with the one that gives you the better role those two are nice companies by the way, congratulations for making it to them, wow

They appear to be quite markedly different jobs. Without knowing your personality type, your preferences, your passion, your ambitions, your career goals, any advice is really just a toss in a wind.

right thanks guys for the advise. Well i'm waiting and seeing the response from the inteviews which i thought went pretty well. So nothing's confirmed yet, just excited about it. May just be wishful thinking on my part too.

The lead role sounds v much more exciting as I have been dying to be one for awhile now. Only thing now is to bet whether my 5 years of exp is worth enough to them. For Goldman, is more of a hands-on role handling alot of support and development in their in-house proprietry programming language which pulls me away from .Net obviously. But yea i agree with icelava, really 2 different roles here. V hard to compare the apples and oranges.

thanks anyway guys.

so it was just my wishful thinking indeed, nothing came out from those 2 jobs, but I still hav another standard chartered position that touch down. So i'll take that, whatever u can get yea!

What does the job at Standard & Chartered do?

C++/C# developer role for equities derivatives IT and opportunity for tech lead towards end of year after they've finished ramping up.

but guess stan chart is not as big-ass of a bank than the Goldmans or Merrills.

I see, your niche appears to be financial systems. I am guessing you deal with a large number of Unix systems as well.

Yea banks are a challenging place to be especially for IT. I'm currently at Barclays and we deal with Unix as db/messaging, Java as server, C# as client, C++ on various other systems. So our systems have to interact and interface with each other so they all work. Furthermore the biz requirements are as fluid as the financial markets.

you're also with barcap? i'm with GSDC...

hey..great to see a fellow barcap :) i'm with Credit IT at ORQ. Which unit team are u in? and wow ur an MVP! any great tips on how do u go about being an MVP?