[partingshots]

Tech pays so much more though, and you don’t have to kill yourself either for it? (genuinely can’t imagine doing 80-100 hour work weeks)

IBD is a dead meme at this point in my opinion. Like how being a lawyer used to be the most lucrative career path.

[jboog]

Yeah but you need to be a top engineering/CS kid to get those high-paying tech jobs.

All you need to get a job in IBD is go to a top school, have a high gpa, and be able to memorize some basic accounting and finance and not blow your interviews.

Getting a technical degree like CS and then passing the interviews at a place like Google or whatever the hottest unicorn grads wanna work at is way tougher IMO

[dkdbejwi383]

You can make almost as much money (well above the average) doing a "normal" 35-40 hour week in tech. I'd rather have a sensible work:life balance and earn a bit less, than spend my entire life working until midnight.

Plus, I find tech is very egalitarian. Nobody cares whether you went to a public or state school, if you have a regional accent or anything like that. Banking still has the "old money" club problems.

[partingshots]

If you can get into a top school, you can spend the few hours to study for technical interviews. Seriously, I’m not joking. It’s not as hard as you make it out to be.

[jboog]

I wasn't claiming the technical interviews require some genius, but they are way tougher than IB interviews.