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?

 

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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