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Having worked in finance on the buy side, I can say this was not true for me or the dozens of people I knew who use it. Neither I nor others I know in the spac
by metacritic12 6y ago
Having worked in finance on the buy side, I can say this was not true for me or the dozens of people I knew who use it. Neither I nor others I know in the space use the terminal as a place to "hang out" with wealthy people.
Bloomberg's tooling is quite good, and you can get 80% of the way to a bespoke chart with 20% of the work.
Not sure if the above is speculation, or parody, or just a projection of a stylized view of how finance and the world works. But definitely the above comment is confusing / misleading to people who don't work in the industry.
- cashewchoo 6y agoHello from the (ex) sell side. I think it's satire. Pretty hard to tell though. But I think it's just really good satire.
- hinkley 6y agoPoe's Law strikes again.