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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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