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Working in investment banking here. I sincerely hope that tech companies will continue to thrive -- the reasoning being that at some point IB will be so much short of talents that it will have to adjust to working practices/policies more suitable for introverts.

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Wouldn't you expect, if tech kept draining employees out of banking, that it would disproportionately drain introverts away and leave banking more extraverted than before?

To hear a lot of people tell it, the work of banking is largely in having and maintaining social relationships with your clients.

> Wouldn't you expect, if tech kept draining employees out of banking, that it would disproportionately drain introverts away and leave banking more extraverted than before?

Sure, in fact my additional hope is that this being over-extroverted will have a negative impact on business.

> To hear a lot of people tell it, the work of banking is largely in having and maintaining social relationships with your clients.

Not only that, at least in IB case. It is also a lot about tech (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12443678&goto=news for example) and mathematical/statistical modelling.

Not when you have Grads from good universities lining up round the block to work in the City or Wall Street

Wall street isn't in the city?

"the City" here (with capital C) refers to the "City of London".

It also means "New York" if you're in New York.

It also means "San Francisco" if you're in San Francisco.

C'mon, don't you guys be so nitpicky... The comment above was made in the context of financial places, and is clearly referring to the "City" of London, as they call the financial hub, not the "City of London" as a whole.

I am only responding because I didn't know what "the City" means because I don't work in the financial sector

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