[JumpCrisscross]

>mostly young male type-A personalities...wave million dollar bonuses in their face

This also characterises hackers and Silicon Valley. There are some really good people on Wall Street just as there are some real turds in Silicon Valley.

If you go back into Goldman Sachs's history it was a venerable firm with a storied past of forsaking short-term profit for the client, i.e. being long-term greedy instead of short-term greedy (quoting a GS executive from the 1970s). It started changing in the 1980s and completed its transformation after its IPO.

Values aren't a function of sex or ambition.

[dustineichler]

"there are some real turds in Silicon Valley", understatement of the year. Gimme some time, I'll eventually rant about this on my way out the door too.