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.

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pastel8739 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Aren’t quants and what you would usually refer to as “investment bankers” pretty different groups of people?

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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 8 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		They didn’t get lucky except to the extent they were born into a fourth generation Ivy League family.