Why is Everyone in Tech so sad?

Re:Why is Everyone in Tech so sad? by marginalia_nu on Friday August 07, 2026 @12:38PM (#49213013)

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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Re:Why is Everyone in Tech so sad? by pastel8739 on Friday August 07, 2026 @03:54PM (#49215467)

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

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Re:Why is Everyone in Tech so sad? by asdff on Friday August 07, 2026 @04:18PM (#49215714)

Absolutely. The quants have legitimate skills. The ibs mostly just got lucky with the big internship junior year that set themselves up for life.

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Re:Why is Everyone in Tech so sad? by brewdad on Friday August 07, 2026 @10:27PM (#49218399)

They didn’t get lucky except to the extent they were born into a fourth generation Ivy League family.

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