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Ironically the best people I’ve ever worked with are actually nepo kids who have a chip on their shoulder and want make their own success. These people are polished killers who grind. Sometimes Questbridge / SEO pipeline kids lack proper grammar, understanding of nuance, etc. and are not the strongest candidates. Obviously there are outliers on both ends, and nepo candidates can be very, very bad, but the reality of this just isn’t true from personal experience working at a top bank in NYC.


You don’t know what it feels like to be a super hardworking, earnest white / Asian guy who has to watch DEI students parade around with their offers Sophomore year and brag about it on LinkedIn before you even have a chance to have a first round interview at the exact same banks due to the delayed timing for non-diversity. It’s a feeling I’ll never forget.

 

This is a cringe, misinformed stereotype. Today, most schools that place well onto Wall Street have a pretty minimal Greek life presence. My bank actually has almost no alumna of Greek life, and I myself was not in Greek life. Business frats are more common from what I’ve seen but I wouldn’t count those under Greek life.

 

Not that we should be encouraging this kind of family dynamic, but I also have seen some nepo babies at my company (esp the eastern asian ones) who were basically bullied and verbally abused by their parents who can never be satisfied when they were growing up to the point where they kill themselves over striving for perfection in the work they do bc they were traumatized by their upbringing. Some of them work harder than anyone else in the office.

 

Lol cope. DEI =/ white, Asian etc

DEI only applies to like 2-3 ethnicities. Stop lumping minorities as one pro-DEI bucket. The overwhelming # of minorities are anti-DEI

 

Diversity comes in all different shapes and sizes not just your skin color but mostly your socioeconomic status.

There have been white and Asian people that would be considered DEI and have programs to aid the barriers of entry based off of income.

 

Doesn’t work like that. The annual report and DEI audit reports of banks clearly outline, and consistently across the industry who is DEI. 

DEI is all women, black / Hispanic / indigenous men, and LGBTQ only. No other subgroup is considered DEI. 

 

What are you talking about? There is no diversity pathway for White/Asian etc unless you are LGBTQ on top of that

DEI only applies to a 2-3 ethnicities as outlined below

 

Your history says you're looking at FT jobs ... what is that besides an intern?

Also ironic as fuck you're a diverse male in SEO who didnt get a RO themself. What do you think made you not get it if you were outworking them and diverse?

 

At the end of the day… someone can be the smartest person ever, out work everyone, and earn every right to be in the room they’re in. There will always be a fuckass grimlin in the back saying “DEI Jamal” “DEI Becky” when they EARN their flowers.

 

Nobody ever says DEI Jamal. It is always DEI Emma. Don’t try to lump hard working men of color with freeloading women unless you can provide evidence they are part of DEI. Only black / Hispanic men are DEI. 

 

I am literally a guy that fits into that category…I’ve heard both phrases be referenced to, I’m just ALSO advocating for woman who get shit on for literally just existing in the industry.

When I have questions majority when I ask a woman, again from MY EXPERIENCE, they’ve known their shit. Yes there are bad apples but we need to stop shitting on DEI because it’s a “free in”

It quite literally opens the doors to perspectives and backgrounds that will change this industry for the greater good

 

jews this thread : DEI colleagues are actually smart

jews the other thread: DEI beckies are incompetent

OP and 80% of the commenters here are jews. so jews manipulate both sides of the discourse, and both threads appear on the front page. 

so they manipulate all twitter discourse, and now all the jews manipulate WSO discourse!

 

Can you please bring up a statistic on how DEI negatively affects the bottom line for a company.

I just think most of these arguments come from a racist agenda towards certain groups of people. Considering the way you used “blacks” and your previous post… you have strong opinions on certain groups of people.

 

Why should we earmark 50% of seats in hiring and promotions for women? At this point, it is corporate charity. Educate and advocate is a fraud promoted to handicap men financially. 

These handouts need to expire now. Don’t show us rigged McKinsey studies where performance of large firms in a bull market was incorrectly associated with female presence on management / board. 

 

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