In February 2014, London’s Underground was partially shut down by a strike that forced many commuters to find new ways to get to work. The disruption lasted just 48 hours, but when three economists (Shaun Larcom, Ferdinand Rauch and Tim […]
What a difference a couple of weeks makes. In mid-December, I asked a collection of wise guests on my BBC radio programme How to Vaccinate the World about the importance of second doses. At that stage, Scott Gottlieb, former head of […]
Here’s a holiday quiz question for you: what do puzzles, poker, and misinformation have in common? The answer is at the bottom of this column. Let’s try an easier question first. In Santa’s workshop, if it takes five elves five […]
Tom Kelley is a sensitive soul. Shortly after sending the manuscript of his first book, The Art of Innovation, to his publisher, he visited Kepler’s, his local bookshop in Menlo Park in Silicon Valley. “I literally started to cry,” he confessed […]
One consequence of working from home is that mistakes are made. People miss messages; spinning plates fall to the ground; the falcon cannot hear the falconer; a New Yorker journalist broadcasts his genitals to everyone else on a Zoom call. […]
Pinkies up, folks. The best bars in Beverly Hills are glitzy, glamorous and—let’s be honest—probably in a hotel. Welcome to the 90210, a neighborhood where steakhouses and swanky Italian restaurants abound. But cocktail bars? They’re few and far between. If you’re looking for a great […]
That isn’t your Postmates delivery at the door—it’s a towering rabbit with a mustache and a boombox and paisley ears, and it’s here to sing you a song. One person’s singing telegram is another’s nightmare fuel, or some combination thereof this […]
Finance is an industry with long hours, where unexpected termination is rife. To survive, most people abide by the moto: work hard, party hard (and sometimes harder). Junior bankers in particular have mastered the art. I’ve seen people who’ve had very little sleep during […]
Si vous aspirez à travailler pour Goldman Sachs, ne vous attendez pas nécessairement à porter un costume. Aujourd’hui, vous y croiserez davantage de banquiers portant un pantalon en coton plutôt qu’une paire de mocassins Ferragamo et des chemises avec leurs initiales brodées sur les manches. Ainsi, seulement […]
1- Mangez un petit-déjeuner israélien Commencez votre journée à Tel-Aviv par un petit-déjeuner chez Manta Ray, à deux pas de la mer. Les locaux viennent ici pour l’incroyable mezzé fait maison, qui se compose d’une sélection de salades israéliennes. Mais aussi pour […]
L’un des gros avantages à travailler dans un secteur très cyclique, c’est qu’après la pluie vient le beau temps. Il y a un peu moins de trois ans, la saison des bonus était accueillie à grand renfort de vieilles blagues […]
2021 has not been a normal year. One final piece of evidence for its abnormality is that the standard seasonality of the banking recruitment market seems to have been upended. Headhunters are saying that they’re seeing as much as three times the usual level of […]
If you’re going to get a job in banking, then you’re going to need excellent qualifications. But you’ll also need a CV that can make it past banks’ applicant tracking systems (ATS), which are used to help manage and automate their hiring […]
If you’re in your late 20s, and you’re earning good money working in a hedge fund, you may think there’s comparatively little to gripe about. Although most things are easier when you’re earning a comfortable six figures, there still seem to […]
If you’re a vice president (VP) at Goldman Sachs, you’ll typically earn a salary alone of between $175k and $275k depending upon your division and location. Today, Goldman Sachs shunted thousands of people into that salary band. 2,200 people at Goldman […]
There’s a clear group of winners when it comes to bonuses for 2021. It includes, almost certainly, people working for Goldman Sachs’ investment banking division. Everyone else will be left in the dust. As New Year’s bonus announcements approach, even JPMorgan’s banking analysts […]
Millennium, le hedge fund fondé par le trader Izzy Englander en 1989, a longtemps eu la réputation de recruter un certain type de personnes. – Connu depuis toujours pour autoriser ses collaborateurs à travailler depuis quasiment n’importe où, il était […]
If you’re a woman in banking, you may easily out-earn a man – but only if you work in some of the lowest paid areas of the industry. Results to the eFinancialCareers compensation (salary and bonus) survey, suggest that women are paid […]
There are many reasons why you might want to move from banking to fintech. Fintech jobs can be more fulfilling. They can involve more exciting programming languages. And – most importantly – they’re more likely to involve remote working. But if […]
It’s often said that crazy working hours in banks are an intergenerational norm and that the reason today’s young bankers are expected to work 80-hour weeks is that their predecessors did it, as did the predecessors before them. Extreme work is […]
