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In the US, does the rubber stamp effect have much impact beyond the first hire? In banking in the UK, I literally have no idea what education my colleagues hav
by cm2187 7y ago
In the US, does the rubber stamp effect have much impact beyond the first hire?
In banking in the UK, I literally have no idea what education my colleagues have, and after a few years of experience, I feel the university is pretty much irrelevant, other than certain specific majors, if for instance they are quantitative or computer science. But I feel that an MBA would play no role in a promotion.
- krapht 7y agoSurely Oxbridge or LSE mean something on a consultant's resume.
- JumpCrisscross 7y agoRubber stamps matter in consulting. Less so in banking, and negligibly so in trading.
- NotSammyHagar 7y agoI think I've heard of Oxbridge, don't know what it is, what is lse? I'm in the us though, not in banking.
- JumpCrisscross 7y ago> what is lse? London School of Economics [1]. Prestigious British school, largely only relevant, outside the U.K., to economists and financiers. [1] http://www.lse.ac.uk/ http://www.lse.ac.uk/
- elemeno 7y agoOxbridge is a portmanteau of Oxford and Cambridge. In the UK it's a term often used to refer to the universities - which are routinely ranked as the top two universities globally.
- a3n 7y ago> what is lse? The school that Mick Jagger went to. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Jagger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Jagger
- chrisseaton 7y ago> In banking in the UK, I literally have no idea what education my colleagues have, and after a few years of experience, I feel the university is pretty much irrelevant, other than certain specific majors, if for instance they are quantitative or computer science. Yes the UK banking sector is famous for being made up from people of a very wide range of backgrounds...