Word: bankses
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Shemmer lived in New York growing up, but was born in Tel Aviv--there's an Israeli flag in his bedroom and a military uniform in his closet. A psychology major at Penn, his only real business experience in college came almost by chance: one summer he found a job...
All the analysts I meet emphasize how laid-back Broadview is. "My hours are better than my friends at any other bank," Shemmer says--a mere 75 or 80 hours a week, compared to as much as 100 at larger banks. At the biggest firms, the partners conduct "bed checks...
A friend from Penn calls. A senior, he's considering taking a job with one of the big downtown banks. Shemmer is indignant. "Ninety percent of the analysts hate it," he tells his friend, a fraternity buddy. "There's no guarantee you're going to make more money." His friend...
The lack of women in the office is especially mysterious since Broadview seems committed to other kinds of diversity--several of the analysts are Indian or East Asian or Middle Eastern (although I don't notice any black analysts). So why the gender imbalance? Analysts speculate that most women are...
But even abroad, it's not Hollywood-friendly riots or atomic disasters that we should be fearing. It's economic trouble. Even if one of these countries suffers a Y2K-related banking shutdown, it could cause ripples in the global pool. And that's why Y2K command-center staff members...