In the short time that I worked at a quantitative hedge fund (all of 2007, basically), the quants were the absolute nicest, friendliest people in the whole comp

In the short time that I worked at a quantitative hedge fund (all of 2007, basically), the quants were the absolute nicest, friendliest people in the whole company. If you were even slightly technical and curious, almost any of them would answer whatever questions you had and would casually shoot the shit about anything in their nerdy areas of interest. This in contrast with the one floor trader who repeatedly and forcefully kicked me while I was under his desk replacing the Bloomberg keyboard he spilled his Sprite all over...because 3 minutes and from half the building away wasn't a fast enough response time for him.