SWE is King — IB Sucks

Being a SWE is 100 times better than IB speaking as a current investment banker Analyst 1. The hourly wage for IBD is less than minimum wage so you might as well just go work for McDonalds. I have a friend at Google who made 450k as a new grad with 300k in cash and 150k in stock options. Why would anyone do IB instead of work for Google? If you do IB then you have no technical skills and your IQ is probably low too. That's why we make more money in tech.

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Idk why people are taking this seriously. He said that he’s a current An1 and then later says “we make more money in tech”. Dude’s just trolling lol

 

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