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Invisible_Insane
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I don't think the expectation that you'd have cursory familiarity with perhaps the best known investment bank in the world (and failing that, the fucking google) is an unreasonable one.
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Mihael Mello Keehl
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I guess you google it you know it.
Mihael Mello Keehl
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I fucking knew it lol
Just not getting it are you?
These tables from that Pew survey should generate some discussion from poli-GAF...
What the Public Knows - In Words and Pictures
What the Public Knows - In Words and Pictures
heliosRAzi
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No wonder you couldn't catch Kira. At least L knew what Goldman Sachs was.
Mihael Mello Keehl
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shutup lol
That was actually one of the questions on the Sears interview.
"The Occupy Wall Street has rallied against multinational investment firms such as Goldman Sachs. What are your thoughts towards the Occupy Wall Street movement?
a) Occupy Wall Street is right in calling attention to the financial imbalances supported by the 1%. Action is needed by the American people in order to cause reform.
b) Financial and banking services are not to blame with the current problems in our economy; Instead, it is the government's responsibility to manage our economy effectively.
c) What the fuck is a Goldman Sachs?"
b) Financial and banking services are not to blame with the current problems in our economy; Instead, it is the government's responsibility to manage our economy effectively.
c) What the fuck is a Goldman Sachs?"
la flama blanca
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lol this thread.
crazygambit
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In the US. I had no idea who she was. I only got wrong the 4 questions about American politics, which I know very little about.
Technosteve
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Hey draw a Pokemon with an iPod mr commercial artist man.
Jeff Albertson
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Damn I'm dumb only 7/13 and I only knew Goldman sachs is a bank of sorts and has been involved in this wall street stuff recently but I am from England.
Also to be fair to the lad that Wikipedia description of them is quite confusing.
I laughed heartily at carpentering though
Also to be fair to the lad that Wikipedia description of them is quite confusing.
I laughed heartily at carpentering though
13/13, no guesses, Dutch.
narcosis219
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So it was fine when they asked you for $150 until you read on the internet that it was a scam?
Well, I guess that's why these kinds of companies are still around.
eudaemonic
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If Brazil wasn't the largest choice... I wonder how many people would get it wrong.
Sviatoslav
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BTW one of my friends got to a second round of interviews at an investment bank and he doesn't know what goldman sachs is either.
Perspicacity
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Yeah well my dad's a fireman
Hasphat'sAnts
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How many of you actually know what a bulge-bracket investment bank does?
LyleLanley
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I got your bulge bracket right here.
Hasphat'sAnts
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Seems funny to me that people got this sense of intellectual superiority just by knowing the name of the firm. Whether they know what it does is somehow completely irrelevant.
It is more about knowing what is going on in your country and why we are in the economical situation that we are in broad strokes than knowing exactly all the details.
It's almost like the information is there for you to read
Hasphat'sAnts
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But what difference does it really make if he just knew the name of firm?
Devil's in the details and all that.
Are they large-scale bookies that bet themselves, often on games they fix? That's my general impression as a layman.
Yeah. Like when people use the term 'bulge-bracket' instead of just saying largest.
I'm sorry dude, but not knowing every intricacy of how an investment bank works is orders of magnitude less ridiculous than not knowing what one is in the first place. I might not know how the Large Hadron Collider works, but at least I know what the fuck it is.
Odds on the OP knowing what the LHC is, even after googling it?
Hasphat'sAnts
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Proprietary trading is only a part of its business. Banking, Investment Management, and Client Services are all outside of the "trading" activities and present a majority of the company's revenues.
The guys making fun of the OP should just get off of their intellectual high horses. There's always something out there for people to learn, and people need to start somewhere.
And the term Bulge-bracket points to nine specific firms that perform the full range of investment banking services. It's a much much more precise description.
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I don't need to know how a dishwasher works to know who's qualified to move them
RibbedHero
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Ignoring the first statement, I fully agree with you. I don't expect everyone to know everything, and neither should anyone on GAF, what they should expect is the slightest awareness of the world.
In this case though it's not only the fact that the OP didn't know about about one of the most often mentioned companies in the world, which is from his home country, its also the fact that despite googling he still didn't know.
Mr. B Natural
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Next time somebody tells me to google something I'm gonna tell that person to get off their fucking high horse/go home and get their shine box.
Hold on a second, I gotta take a puff of my pipe here and gather up my best sherlock holmes voice for this next one-
<ahem>
Now, let's say the OP did have absolutely no idea what a Goldman Sachs was. Let's also say the OP looked it up online and then his brain, I don't know, became unable to read briefly for some unknown reason.
Ok, so let's assume those two things are true. If somebody told me, after talking about a Sears interview that not to worry about it, it's Sears not Goldman Sachs. I STILL think, with a morsel of problem solving skills, anyone could AT LEAST figure out what it is the sentence is trying to communicate. It's a comparison of opposites. They would be able to conclude that it's a business of some sort for elite, educated individuals where there's a chance that the hiring procedure is rather rigid. The opposite of Sears. So, even if the OP had some aneurysm, the question "what the hell is a goldman sachs" is still baffling because the obvious point the poster made was clearly not received.
It's not about awareness of the world, it's about reading skills and problem solving.
In other words,
Mr. Green with the candlestick in the library.
I bid you all good day.
Hold on a second, I gotta take a puff of my pipe here and gather up my best sherlock holmes voice for this next one-
<ahem>
Now, let's say the OP did have absolutely no idea what a Goldman Sachs was. Let's also say the OP looked it up online and then his brain, I don't know, became unable to read briefly for some unknown reason.
Ok, so let's assume those two things are true. If somebody told me, after talking about a Sears interview that not to worry about it, it's Sears not Goldman Sachs. I STILL think, with a morsel of problem solving skills, anyone could AT LEAST figure out what it is the sentence is trying to communicate. It's a comparison of opposites. They would be able to conclude that it's a business of some sort for elite, educated individuals where there's a chance that the hiring procedure is rather rigid. The opposite of Sears. So, even if the OP had some aneurysm, the question "what the hell is a goldman sachs" is still baffling because the obvious point the poster made was clearly not received.
It's not about awareness of the world, it's about reading skills and problem solving.
In other words,
Mr. Green with the candlestick in the library.
I bid you all good day.
Right, but you used the term "Bulge-bracket" specifically to flex your intellectual superiority in front of those who you are deriding for doing the same.
Exactly. A 21 year old who doesn't know what Goldman Sachs is raises an eyebrow, but is not some unforgivable sin. When this same person says he "looked it up", and that looking up process involves nothing more than ASKING SIRI, we are dangerously close to dealing with someone who has gone full retard.
Frankly I think GAF has gone quite lenient on the kid when taking this into consideration.
heliosRAzi
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But no one is on a high horse. Everyone is just baffled as to how a 21 year old college student doesn't know what Goldman Sachs is considering what they did to the economy which has permeated the news cycle ever since the meltdown in 2008. Most of us here do not know the intricacies of the investment bank and we don't expect him to, but we do expect him to have a modicum of awareness for current events.
Exactly.
I like this guy.
MatthewB92
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Thanks for posting this. I read RevMD's first post as god damn sachs for some reason and keep thinking wtf is sachs lol. After his post every goldman turned to god damn for some reason in my head.
I feel like a dumbass.
For future reference, there's a thread for this sort of thing:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=455224
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=455224
HomerSimpson-Man
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You guys sure took a long time finally saying what this goldman sacks was.
Now, I know it's a bunch of investing bank douches. What do I win with this knowledge? A reacharound for my initiation?
Now, I know it's a bunch of investing bank douches. What do I win with this knowledge? A reacharound for my initiation?
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And that's why Near won.
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