Too Smart for the Office?

I have a serious question for all of you. I am a rather smart man. I played D1 chess as a 13 year old. I currently have a 4.0/4.0 from HYP with a 790 GMAT and a 186IQ. However, I also own 4 of my own businesses. I worry that my overly smart brain will not bode well with company culture. After leaving an interview, I was told that I have a "smart grip" for a handshake (I received and accepted their offer.) Not to sound conceited, but I have honestly never come across anyone even close to the my inteligence at the office, or even walking around down town. I am an attractive guy and present myself well. I don't look even remotely out of uninteligent or fat (some of the stupid guys can look like that in a dress shirt.)

This a clumsily worded post but I suppose my main question is if anyone has witnessed any type of discrimination towards smart, awesome guys at the office. Is this something I should be concerned about? I suppose I could retake the GMAT and post a 750 (I'd truly rather not) if it would help me fit in. Any advice or comments are greatly appreciated.

 

A good laugh I guess. 186IQ is the give away. If that was the case, you wouldn't need us to tell you that you might be a social retard.

Savant's IQ was said to be 186.

"I'm short your house"
 

LMAO. Excellent.

Get the shit beat out of you by the office meat head after making a joke at his expense that try as he might he just doesn't understand (although he'll know intuitively people are laughing at him.) Let the best looking admin tend to your wounds.

Hand in custom made Italian glove.

 
IlliniProgrammer:
Pfft. 186 IQ means you stand half a chance as a quant candidate but we will most likely have to send you to IBD with the other 140 IQs. The 4.0 GPA unfortunately is probably not enough, we expect a number of A+s in quantitative courses.

Please go back to IBD.

.......Really? I hope that's a joke too. If it isn't, your coworkers must all be among the top 20 smartest individuals alive.

"I'm short your house"
 
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W.Beach:
.......Really? I hope that's a joke too. If it isn't, your coworkers must all be among the top 20 smartest individuals alive.
Ummm, Ramanujan has a lot more than 20 great nieces and nephews.

In all seriousness, getting a 200 on an IQ test is not really a big deal. You get a number of these guys in quant analytics and HFT at every bank (No, I probably couldn't ace an IQ test, but I can go drinking with these guys and laugh at nearly all of their engineering jokes). 200 and being able to talk about baseball and domestic beer- now THAT'S something.

People need to stop acting like acing an IQ test and getting a 4.0 GPA is that unique. If you work for a BB, you probably have a dozen folks with a 200 IQ at your firm, and you've got a few hundred with IQs north of 180. Not all of them are millionaires. When it comes to brains, engines, and other things people like to brag about being big, it's not the size that counts, it's how you use it.

 

why not a 800 gmat if you are so smart?

why are you referring to your GPA in the present voice if you have a job?

what's D1 chess? hey i played tight end for FIDE and nose guard for USCF.

why can't you use "bode" properly in a sentence?

i praise you faintly for your trolling.

 
charmander:
*an 186 IQ.

You'd never make it in IBD.

Actually... he was right and you were wrong... the rule with articles is that they conform to pronunciation... that is why you see "an MD totally killed my weekend" but if it were fully spelled out it would be "a Managing Director killed my weekend." So in this instance it is "a 186 IQ" rather than "an IQ of 186"

He may just be cut out for IBD with those sick trolling skills...

 

Yes, and I work with clones of Stephen Hawking and Savant. A bunch of children clones with oversized heads.....There have only been a handful of individuals ever to score over 200. If you still believe that is true after reading up, I can punch the dumb out of you if you like.

"I'm short your house"
 

IQs are being grossly over exaggerated here. Most quants are probably closer to the 140-160 range and I'd argue that most in IBD are not have over 140. You all seriously believe that everybody working in a front office finance role is a genius? Most people haven't even taken a damn IQ test, they are guessing based off of SAT scores which they practiced over and over for.

"One should recognize reality even when one doesn't like it, indeed, especially when one doesn't like it." - Charlie Munger
 

Thank you cplpayne. I will reinforce this again, people who score 200+, even 180+, belong to a group of the smartest humans ever born. That doesn't happen every day. I would venture a guess that the likelihood of being in the same room with 1 let alone 2 at the same time is infinitely small...

So unless you work at CERN and there is a convention every day for the best scientists of the world every other hour...your statements, or your coworkers claims, are baseless.

"I'm short your house"
 
W.Beach:
Thank you cplpayne. I will reinforce this again, people who score 200+, even 180+, belong to a group of the smartest humans ever born. That doesn't happen every day. I would venture a guess that the likelihood of being in the same room with 1 let alone 2 at the same time is infinitely small...While I don't doubt the intellectual firepower of Wall Street in the least, the distribution of these ultra rare individuals is not particularly concentrated in finance, nor quant trading divisions. You will likely find a larger majority of scientist and academics that are a closer resemblance of that IQ composition.

So unless you work at CERN and there is a convention every day for the best scientists of the world every other hour...your statements, or your coworkers claims, are baseless.

"I'm short your house"
 
IlliniProgrammer:
ivoteforthatguy:
Not anymore. I decided that going home at 6 and being wrong all the time sucked and I went over to a quant job a few months ago. You're right Blue, more money is better.
Hmmm. Is the quant world really that different?

lol, I don't know. For now I just do what I am told. I bought all the obligatory books by Wilmott, Shreve, et al but haven't opened them since I started. The code I am working on resembles a model for a low-power receiver more than anything I have seen in finance. I'll worry if it works later.

 

Good for you, I'll let you have my old 2x2 matrix templates. As a banker, I thought that you'd know that not all quants work for banks. In any case the sell side isn't for me. I wanted to work market hours and do math a bit more complex than calculating DCFs.

This week I've been writing up some signal filter code that is just blowing my mind. Maybe we can do an exchange program. I have an MIT string theorist I can send over to script up some accretion/dilution models if you can send over your Excel math geniuses.

 
ivoteforthatguy:
I have an MIT string theorist I can send over to script up some accretion/dilution models if you can send over your Excel math geniuses.

Those are the real IQ guys. String Theory = facemelter

Excel tho? I must be missing something....

"I'm short your house"
 

Maybe all you idiots should criticize the next person who posts he has a huge muscles and is physically perfect. I mean, the NERVE of these people right? How conceited do you have to be to actually work incredibly hard at something?! It's painfully obvious all these people getting jacked or played cricket are really just insecure douche bags right? Do you see why you and the other posters are colossal idiots yet or do I need to rub your face in feces a little more? Just let me know.

 

This is a legitimate concern. I too may suffer from discrimination from being too muscular, but partly because I am extremely handsome. If I can help at all, please let me know.

 
Blue Baller:
Publicity - the more eyeballs looking to screw this guy, the better. Atleast he finally quit talking shit now that there is a sizable group of folks out there looking for him.

I don't even think I could articulate how fearful I am...

I quit the shit talking? Oh, well in that case: your mother is a filthy, disgusting whore. I ejaculate pulpy loads of semen in your mother's mouth. If the bitch is lucky, I let her gargle it to improve her breath. It is a great honor for your smelly hooker mother to swallow my semen. After I fuck that disgusting sack of shit you call a mother, I open hand slap your coward father in the face and make him apologize for propagating the waste of life known as Blue Baller.

Should I keep going rat?

 
Blue Baller:
This is awesome. Can someone else pls explain to our "bro" here that this thread was created with the sole intent of making fun of him?

Are you fuckin serious BRO? You mean to tell me this is not a legitimate thread? How the fuck would WSO operate without you?! I know we have had our differences but I am going to start a petition to make you no less than a moderator, if not an administrator.

I just don't see how this website would be able to run without you. After falling for literally every single trap I set for you and "clarifying" that this is a troll thread, I can absolutely see why you will have a fruitful career in banking.

 
Nick Gers:
Blue Baller:
This is awesome. Can someone else pls explain to our "bro" here that this thread was created with the sole intent of making fun of him?

Are you fuckin serious BRO? You mean to tell me this is not a legitimate thread? How the fuck would WSO operate without you?! I know we have had our differences but I am going to start a petition to make you no less than a moderator, if not an administrator.

I just don't see how this website would be able to run without you. After falling for literally every single trap I set for you and "clarifying" that this is a troll thread, I can absolutely see why you will have a fruitful career in banking.

Nick you are physically awesome. I feel for you bro. We both have monster cocks. Also, Sometimes my neck hurts because my brains too big. Haters gonna hate.

 

Yeah. There needs to be some sort of process on Patrick's end to let everyone agree to have their posts toned down by the mods.

I have to hide the screen whenever I visit this site at work. Now I will have to hide it even more. We are the site where some guy asks if he is too muscular to work and then a huge argument erupts that ends with folks trading fifth grade insults.

Standing your ground and being constructively aggressive is good, but this is the kind of mentally-ill behavior that the folks down in Zucotti Park are protesting and we are not being good ambassadors for the street to the rest of the world.

You can keep saying you don't care until they vote to boost your taxes back to 70%.

 
IlliniProgrammer:
Yeah. There needs to be some sort of process on Patrick's end to let everyone agree to have their posts toned down by the mods.

I have to hide the screen whenever I visit this site at work. Now I will have to hide it even more. We are the site where some guy asks if he is too muscular to work and then a huge argument erupts that ends with folks trading fifth grade insults.

Standing your ground and being constructively aggressive is good, but this is the kind of mentally-ill behavior that the folks down in Zucotti Park are protesting and we are not being good ambassadors for the street to the rest of the world.

You can keep saying you don't care until they vote to boost your taxes back to 70%.

No.

 

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