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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The writers seem to blame it on careerism when really it’s just a lower quality student who doesn’t care about education. A lot of students are in it for the jobs, and don’t care at all about what they learn, shown by the rise of Econ and CS majors everywhere.[/quote]

Maybe that is because you do not learn anything anyway….

I hire an avg of 8 kids from t10 schools every year for the last 15 years at an IB in NYC.
I’m yet to hire one who has learn enough. None of them know anything. I could care less if they took  Class A, B or C. But if I give them a very complex real world problem, can they solve it? that is all I care about. I will teach them everything else I need them to know.[/quote]

Investment Banking isn’t known for solving “complex real world problems”.  If kids want to do that, they go work for companies trying to create nuclear fusion energy or DNA-based computer chips.

You know…actual complex real world problems.  It’s laughable that you would combine that phrase and IB in the same sentence.[/quote]

So, "trying" to do something that essentially no one actually does is the only "solving" complex real world problems? OK chum. Obviously IB work is super easy and that's why all the work is done for $7/day in Bangladesh slums. [/quote]
It IS super easy intellectually. The difficult part is grinding out the hours and the feeling of being owned. Then when you get more senior (like 10 years down the road) being able to schmooze well enough. But no, you do not need to be able to solve problems to develop/update a financial model or format a pitch deck (usually at the explicit direction of someone senior...it doesn't even require copy editing, just incorporating someone else's comments).[/quote]

+1 Just like many sales jobs. Just because you make a lot of money moving money around doesn't mean the job is complex or difficult or even useful.[/quote]

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