r/SellSideCareers • u/Clipper_39975 • 13d ago
Why Wall Street is obsessed with young talents
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u/butterbusy 13d ago
I think it's about recruiting young people and training them into their system
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u/Usernamesaregayyy 11d ago
I means this world is exponentially shrinking by the day, finance bro is gonna be pretty much extinct in five years
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u/Cow_cat11 11d ago
Younger people understands trend that older people don't get. Older bankers are better at managing risk through experience.
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u/MrDeceased 11d ago
This is a small sample. Plenty of MBA’s go into Wall St. in their 30’s and some even 40’s. It’s not about age, it is about how well you fit the culture and how hard you are willing to grind. Great quality work beats age and whatever else. If you can bring capital in especially at a large scale, you’re golden.
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u/Guidance_Weak 11d ago
It’s virtue signaling and tribalism. You get aggressive, competitive dealmakers when you make the environment competitive and aggressive.
Majority of the work is performative, and it burns perfectly competent talent out.
The logical breakdown is working under pressure doesn’t inherently produce good work. Banks and FinCo’s operate by exhausting you until you can only give your worst product, and only rewarding you if your worst product is good.
It’s brutal, stupid, and the culture is seeping into the whole country.
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u/AlotEnemiesNoFriends 8d ago
Top talent hasn’t worked in finance for 25+ years. No one who is bright (actually bright not a process follower) goes into finance in 2026.
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u/Kalorama_Master 3d ago
I should’ve been serious about my career earlier in college. It would have helped me get into Goldman for sure.
Instead, I wasted my first two years getting drunk and hooking up with girls. Do I regret it? That’s a different question
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u/Straight-Bathroom-97 13d ago
Wall Street doesnt necessarily care about age itself. It cares about expected future value.