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Read it. These people are representative of the way professionals in Wall Street's "up-or-out" jungle think. Some of the things you'll read on that site will ap
by pw0ncakes 17y ago
Read it. These people are representative of the way professionals in Wall Street's "up-or-out" jungle think. Some of the things you'll read on that site will appall you.
This is what the biglaw partners produced by creating a professional environment in which only a few percent have a chance at making partner, and the rest have essentially wasted years of their life for nothing.
- pingswept 17y agoI'm willing to take you at your word that the site is filled with appalling things. It certainly looks appalling, and the few discussions I read appeared to be irritating people being irritated with the world. But what evidence is there that the structure of the hiring practices is what attracted these people? My unsubstantiated hunch is that Wall Street professionals might be there because they're after money or prestige, not because they're inevitably attracted by the hiring methods.
- tokenadult 17y agothe rest have essentially wasted years of their life for nothing. That decidedly is NOT the outcome of the Cravath approach, although it may be the outcome of the Latham and Watkins approach.
- Tangurena 17y agoMan, I wish you had never posted that link. I came so close to doing this: http://xkcd.com/386/ http://xkcd.com/386/ over there.