"One candidate in Ms Rivera’s sample passed the interview by adopting the persona of a successful consultant that he knew at that firm. Even if you do not go that far, you must at all costs avoid appearing nerdy or eccentric: there are plenty of jobs with tech companies for those types. The old-fashioned belief still prevails that playing team sports, especially posh ones like rowing, makes for a rounded character....
This overwhelming emphasis on style rather than substance may seem an odd way to select members of the 1%. But those at the top of the consulting, investment-banking and legal professions know that the most prized possession in uncertain times is not brainpower, but self-confidence. For all the talk of the world becoming dominated by a 'cognitive elite', in reality it appears it is nothing more than a 'confidence elite'."
It would seem that someone with a past in one of these firms who actually had a good 'fit' there would make a poor fit for most tech startups. [1]
So then I back look at this sentence, "The top ranks of governments and central banks are sprinkled with Goldman Sachs veterans. Technology firms, though they are catching up fast, have nothing like the same grip on the global elite."
Our tide is rising, and they can wait in their confident complacence. They'll never see it coming.