What do you consider "Working on Wall Street"?

Working for a high finance bank on the actual "Wall" St
10% (192 votes)
Working for a high finance bank in Manhattan
47% (896 votes)
Working for a high finance bank in the greater NYC area
13% (245 votes)
Working for a high finance bank in the (anywhere in the USA)
13% (238 votes)
Working for a high finance bank (Worldwide)
15% (277 votes)
Other
2% (40 votes)
Total votes: 1888

Who is your favorite Hedge Fund manager?

Bill Ackman
14% (200 votes)
Steve Cohen
8% (111 votes)
Ray Dalio
16% (225 votes)
Ken Griffin
5% (72 votes)
Carl Icahn
10% (141 votes)
Jim Simons
5% (64 votes)
George Soros
12% (174 votes)
David Tepper
5% (75 votes)
David Einhorn
7% (98 votes)
Seth Klarman
9% (125 votes)
Other / None of the above
9% (122 votes)
Total votes: 1407

What is/was your undergrad GPA?

<3.0
9% (181 votes)
3.01-3.2
10% (189 votes)
3.21-3.4
12% (242 votes)
3.41-3.6
19% (367 votes)
3.61-3.8
25% (478 votes)
3.81-4.0
24% (463 votes)
Other
1% (29 votes)
Total votes: 1949

Which BB Bank would you LEAST want to work for? (IBD)

BAML
7% (190 votes)
Barclays
6% (185 votes)
Citi
7% (200 votes)
Credit Suisse
7% (197 votes)
Deutsche Bank
34% (979 votes)
Goldman Sachs
5% (152 votes)
J.P. Morgan
1% (34 votes)
Morgan Stanley
1% (35 votes)
UBS
27% (770 votes)
Other (add to comments)
4% (111 votes)
Total votes: 2853

Which current/former banking CEO would you most want to have coffee with?

Lloyd Blankfein (GS)
17% (331 votes)
Michael Corbat (Citi)
1% (25 votes)
John Cryan (DB)
3% (55 votes)
Jamie Dimon (JPM)
26% (507 votes)
Sergio Ermotti (UBS)
1% (23 votes)
Richard Fuld (former Lehman Brothers)
16% (320 votes)
James P. Gorman (MS)
3% (56 votes)
Antony Jenkins (Barclays)
0% (4 votes)
Brian Moynihan (BAML)
1% (21 votes)
Hank Paulson (former GS)
7% (146 votes)
Alan Schwartz (former Bear Stearns)
2% (39 votes)
Stephen A. Schwarzman (Blackstone)
17% (338 votes)
John Thain (former ML)
1% (11 votes)
Tidjane Thiam (CS)
3% (62 votes)
Other (add to comments)
2% (44 votes)
Total votes: 1982

2016 What's your current monkey status?

In undergrad
38% (700 votes)
Recent grad (from ugrad), looking for work
5% (91 votes)
In a graduate program (MBA, MSF etc)
7% (134 votes)
Recent MBA/MSF or equiv graduate, looking for work
2% (35 votes)
Currently work full time in finance, 0-5 years
30% (555 votes)
Currently work full time in finance, 5+ years
6% (109 votes)
Currently work in another field
7% (128 votes)
Quit finance / left by choice / retired
1% (21 votes)
Recently laid-off from a finance position
1% (22 votes)
Other (in high school, actual monkey, etc)
3% (60 votes)
Total votes: 1855

Who do you THINK will win the election? (Not who you want to win)

Trump by a considerable margin
10% (10 votes)
Trump by a narrow margin
33% (32 votes)
Clinton by a considerable margin
30% (29 votes)
Clinton by a narrow margin
27% (26 votes)
Total votes: 97

Who is the 2016 Member of the Year? (Voting ends 12/18)

adapt or die
1% (10 votes)
CRE
6% (42 votes)
DickFuld
18% (132 votes)
Fear The Bulge
27% (197 votes)
geoffblades
1% (11 votes)
Hugh Myron
1% (5 votes)
Going Concern
0% (3 votes)
IlliniProgrammer
5% (39 votes)
Lizard Brain
1% (11 votes)
Sil
10% (76 votes)
SSits
1% (7 votes)
thebrofessor
16% (119 votes)
TNA
5% (37 votes)
TorontoMonkey1328
2% (14 votes)
Virginia Tech 4ever
3% (22 votes)
Other (add to comments)
1% (10 votes)
Total votes: 735

How will the US economy be in 4 years?

Significantly better
11% (70 votes)
Slightly better
28% (174 votes)
About the same
18% (109 votes)
Slightly worse
29% (178 votes)
Significantly worse
14% (89 votes)
Total votes: 620

Who is your favorite Chair of the Fed? (last 30yrs)

Paul Volcker
23% (207 votes)
Alan Greenspan
25% (231 votes)
Ben Bernanke
33% (304 votes)
Janet Yellen
19% (169 votes)
Total votes: 911

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