“WHAT THE EFF IS MY SAT SCORE GONNA TELL YOU, YOU DILLWEED???”
snappy, my daughter had an interview at a big hedge fund, one of the biggest. All they wanted were numbers, SAT, GRE, GPA, etc. They want only the brightest people and they feel you should prove it. Of course hedge funds are more about numbers than law firms, but I think the principal is the same.
Denton, number one: this assumes that these numbers prove that you are the brightest, which is not true. Life is not a standardized test. Making money is not taking the GRE. Number two: One thing I know about the trading world, which includes hedge funds. Everyone has ADD. Getting a few scores is the the twitchy and or lazy person’s shortcut to finding out about the “candidate”.
“I’m sure within a range test-taking doesn’t mean everything but I’d bet that someone with an 800/800 is smarter than someone with a 400/400.”
oh absolutely. but I bet you there isn’t much difference (especially 10+ years after high school) between someone who scored 1400 and someone who scored 11 or 1200.
shit – you can get a high score on verbal and not know what half the words mean (thanks Kaplan)
Don’t beat me up, I didn’t give the interview. I suppose tho GPA is equally useless?
By denton on May 3, 2010 5:08 PM
“WHAT THE EFF IS MY SAT SCORE GONNA TELL YOU, YOU DILLWEED???”
snappy, my daughter had an interview at a big hedge fund, one of the biggest. All they wanted were numbers, SAT, GRE, GPA, etc. They want only the brightest people and they feel you should prove it. Of course hedge funds are more about numbers than law firms, but I think the principal is the same.
Denton, number one: this assumes that these numbers prove that you are the brightest, which is not true. Life is not a standardized test. Making money is not taking the GRE. Number two: One thing I know about the trading world, which includes hedge funds. Everyone has ADD. Getting a few scores is the the twitchy and or lazy person’s shortcut to finding out about the “candidate”.
“I’m sure within a range test-taking doesn’t mean everything but I’d bet that someone with an 800/800 is smarter than someone with a 400/400.”
oh absolutely. but I bet you there isn’t much difference (especially 10+ years after high school) between someone who scored 1400 and someone who scored 11 or 1200.
shit – you can get a high score on verbal and not know what half the words mean (thanks Kaplan)
No, I was ripping on you for being banned from the forum – not on your grammar.
kens,
I’m running hot and cold on the Mother Theresa thing. Just chimed in on the civility thread.
“This Blog has two objectives 1. Generate income by posters attacking each other”
What, you’ve attacked so many posters on here generating income for Mr. B.
YOU GO GIRLFRIEND!
“I can’t post on the forum but I will say this”
I can’t post in the forum Dumbass…
The What
Someday this war is gonna end..
Ok, ok, CGar, of course I do! Uncle Willie!
“and it’s time to take it in.”
What, remembering his Riker days.