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Re:The Prestige Trap: finance, big tech, and consulting by whimsicalism on Saturday November 14, 2020 @05:27PM (#25096257)
But finance is up and out. The typical Harvard student in finance is not making that much, even 5 years out. I know plenty of them.
Re:The Prestige Trap: finance, big tech, and consulting by hailwren on Saturday November 14, 2020 @05:52PM (#25096421)
I needed to rewrite this. I mean something like if I select an individual, uniformly at random, after conditioning on industry and Harvard degree I would expect the salaries of most of the individuals in both industries to be about the same. However, I think tech is closer to a normal distribution and finance is heavy-tailed around tech's mean.

If you do something like conditioning on a CS degree, finance probably mops the floor w/ tech.