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[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]

The attitude here is hilarious….And yet I get about 100 applications from your precious IVY little kids dying to be an idiot not wanting to solve any problems working for me….[/quote]

I never said Ivy kids don't want to make money in banking.  However, few think they are going to solve complex problems while doing so.

Not sure what attitude you think is hilarious.  I worked in bulge bracket banking for 15 years...I would never hire anyone that came to the firm thinking they would solve complex problems, because we didn't have any complex problems to solve.  We raised capital for companies that solved complex problems...and of course people/companies that know how to raise large sums of money are very well compensated.  [/quote]

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