Goldman Sachs: Bank boss rejects work from home as the 'new normal'

Re:Goldman Sachs: Bank boss rejects work from home as the 'n... by jboog on Thursday February 25, 2021 @05:20AM (#26261517)

Yeah but you need to be a top engineering/CS kid to get those high-paying tech jobs.

All you need to get a job in IBD is go to a top school, have a high gpa, and be able to memorize some basic accounting and finance and not blow your interviews.

Getting a technical degree like CS and then passing the interviews at a place like Google or whatever the hottest unicorn grads wanna work at is way tougher IMO

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Re:Goldman Sachs: Bank boss rejects work from home as the 'n... by dkdbejwi383 on Thursday February 25, 2021 @05:29AM (#26261563)

You can make almost as much money (well above the average) doing a "normal" 35-40 hour week in tech. I'd rather have a sensible work:life balance and earn a bit less, than spend my entire life working until midnight.

Plus, I find tech is very egalitarian. Nobody cares whether you went to a public or state school, if you have a regional accent or anything like that. Banking still has the "old money" club problems.

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Re:Goldman Sachs: Bank boss rejects work from home as the 'n... by partingshots on Thursday February 25, 2021 @05:26AM (#26261545)

If you can get into a top school, you can spend the few hours to study for technical interviews. Seriously, I’m not joking. It’s not as hard as you make it out to be.

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Re:Goldman Sachs: Bank boss rejects work from home as the 'n... by jboog on Thursday February 25, 2021 @05:35AM (#26261595)

I wasn't claiming the technical interviews require some genius, but they are way tougher than IB interviews.

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