Equity guys VS Fixed Income guys

Visited a few banks trading floors during break, surprised to find the consistency across those banks equity side: basically all sales guys, loud, fun, athletic, aggressive, throw football during work, hire very hot assistants, shortest attention span( shorter than fx guys),

FICC side: technical, quite, serious, science geeks, only have a few assistants who are not cute, sales are women.

One bank i found really funny is that FICC guys built a wall in the trading floor between equity and fixed income...how geeky.....

i heard there's difference between equity and FI in every country but it got most ridiculous in tokyo. lol. how about NYC? any input?

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I've been on the trading floors of both CS, DB equities and fixed income - I don't know where you get these stereotypes of "hot assistants" and "science geeks". I've seen "science geeks" on equities and more "athletic types" on Fixed Income.

At every bank there is a good mix and they are looking for WELL ROUNDED people. I seriously doubt one floor is completely filled with anti social geeks while the other are super models.

 

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