Is Warwick the DEI target now?
I was looking at the summer intern class for a certain to be unnamed American mid-market boutique in London, and something stood out. It is a small group, but none of the interns were white (in a country where around 73 percent of home university students are white), and half of them came from Warwick.
There was only one student from a top target, in this case, LSE. The rest included candidates from places like Queen Mary. No Oxbridge, no Imperial, and not even UCL. It made me wonder whether Warwick has now become the preferred choice for diversity-focused hiring.
Is this a one-off, or has anyone else seen similar patterns elsewhere?
Baird?
first of all its Baird dude all the top targets are at better banks
Second point I would say is that Warwick has unusually high levels of diversity (remember lots of Oxbridge rejects here) with probably the 2nd most finance bro-y culture in the UK only lesser than LSE
I don't think warwick is a preferred DEI target, but its probably just suvivorship bias, as there is loads of DEI students interested in finance at Warwick
4 people class and all diversity is crazy icl
Who actually cares? Just get a job - clearly you don't have one.
Lol, because of skin colour they’re not capable? I suspect someone on the Bristol Trkr. Group chat is the one posting this non sense.
Lol, obviously no one’s saying people aren’t capable because of their skin colour, that would be ridiculous. The title might be a bit rage-baity, fair enough, but the actual point still stands.
From what I’ve come across during spring weeks, insight days, and looking at recent intern classes, a large proportion of DEI candidates seem to come from Warwick if they’re at a target, or Queen Mary if they’re not. I’ve seen more diversity candidates from QMUL than from Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, Exeter and other lower semi-targets combined.
Warwick and Queen Mary are diverse universities in terms of their home student populations, but they seem quite over-represented in DEI hiring relative to how much more diverse they actually are compared to places like Oxbridge, LSE or Imperial. The gap just doesn’t seem that huge, yet the difference in representation is.
Maybe I’m wrong, but Queen Mary in particular seems to get picked for almost every diversity initiative I’ve come across, while other universities with similar student demographics don’t show up nearly as often.
Not trying to start anything, that’s just my honest observation. Open to being corrected if someone has actual data.
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