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I'm looking for a job in finance as a software engineer in high-frequency trading or trading execution in general.

Will accepting a job from one firm make it impossible to work at another in the future?

In other words, will I end up learning "trade secrets" or general secret-sauce type of things that make me non-transferable, locking me into a specific company for something like the next 2 years?

I don't have a very clear idea of what's involved. I'm not sure if I should be going into finance to begin with.

Any tips or hard-earned wisdom would be greatly appreciated.