In HBO’s ‘Industry,’ Gen Z Bankers in Existential Crisis

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What's it really like to be a young person in the pressure-cooker world of high-finance? Two ex-investment bankers made an HBO show about the money, sex, drugs and insecurity among a group of young recruits

Dramas set in the financial world usually focus on the savvy power brokers on top. The new HBO series “Industry” is more invested in the struggle at the entry level, with a group of Gen Z recruits trying to make it at a London investment bank.

Their gatekeepers: a managing director who grips a baseball bat on the trading floor. A trader who flips into hazing mode when an underling botches a salad order. A manager who demands that a junior analyst stop doing all nighters in the office—not for his sake,...

 

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In general those who quit this industry after 5 years or less and go on to write about it tend to have been not very good and to over-sensationalise what they experienced . Take this documentary with a massive pinch of salt!

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Oh the poor darlings. Where do I send some money?

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