| ▲ | marginalia_nu 12 hours ago |
| A counterpoint would be that you don't really ever see investment bankers reacting in this fashion. |
|
| ▲ | pseudalopex 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| You don't really ever see investment bankers reacting how? |
|
| ▲ | Gud 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Because engineers and investment bankers are wired differently. |
| |
| ▲ | marginalia_nu 10 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | There's much more overlap than you'd think. Quants generally have a STEM background, and stay in the field much for the same sort of reasons tech workers stick around building torment nexuses for FAANG. | | |
| ▲ | pastel8739 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | Aren’t quants and what you would usually refer to as “investment bankers” pretty different groups of people? | | |
| ▲ | asdff 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | Absolutely. The quants have legitimate skills. The ibs mostly just got lucky with the big internship junior year that set themselves up for life. | | |
| ▲ | brewdad 9 minutes ago | parent [-] | | They didn’t get lucky except to the extent they were born into a fourth generation Ivy League family. |
|
|
| |
| ▲ | consensus1 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Having done both I would say not by much |
|
