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There's much more overlap than you'd think. Quants generally have a STEM background, and stay in the field much for the same sort of reasons tech workers stick

There's much more overlap than you'd think. Quants generally have a STEM background, and stay in the field much for the same sort of reasons tech workers stick around building torment nexuses for FAANG.

pastel8739 2mo ago
Aren’t quants and what you would usually refer to as “investment bankers” pretty different groups of people?
- asdff 2mo ago
  Absolutely. The quants have legitimate skills. The ibs mostly just got lucky with the big internship junior year that set themselves up for life.
  - brewdad 2mo ago
    They didn’t get lucky except to the extent they were born into a fourth generation Ivy League family.