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The path to working on Wall Street is a long and rigorous obstacle course.Young people who aspire to become dealmakers, traders, or investors must now begin as soon as they arrive at college. From there, it's an immediate dash to join campus finance clubs, hobnob with industry professionals, and fill a résumé with pre-internship accolades…

Ivan Leong, 37, used to work as an insurance agent — a job with crisp button-ups, perfume, coffee chats, and flexible schedules. Ten years later, as he slices up juicy pork in his own Cantonese roast pork stall, he said his life is a far cry from what it once was.Leong started out as an…

Ivan Leong, 37, used to work as an insurance agent — a job with crisp button-ups, perfume, coffee chats, and flexible schedules. Ten years later, as he slices up juicy pork in his own Cantonese roast pork stall, he said that his life now is a far cry from what it was.Leong started out as…

As LinkedIn rolls out artificial intelligence products, Dan Shapero, the chief operations officer, has also been trying out AI tools."My advice to business leaders is to get comfortable with the technology, to use it," he told Business Insider. "It is almost certain that you're going to be asked by your CEO or your board, what's…

Your company’s human resources (HR) department is often pitched as an employee advocate—the place where you take problems or concerns. But most employees know by now that HR—or, in some start-up environments, "the people team"—isn’t really intended to protect you, the human resource in question. Instead, HR works to protect the company’s interests more than…

You might think that a market downturn and an all-but-frozen dealmaking environment would mean that the young employees of Wall Street known for working gruelingly long hours might get a reprieve.Think again.Fewer deals does not mean fewer hours, said Eric Stetler, the head of M&A at the boutique advisory firm D.A. Davidson."It's generally about the…

Tech billionaire Reid Hoffman has a message for anyone still on the fence about AI: If you haven't figured out how to use it at work, "you haven't tried hard enough."The LinkedIn cofounder said on Wednesday's "Possible" podcast episode that every leader, whether they're running a five-person startup or a giant company, should be baking…

As OpenAI lessens its reliance on Microsoft, the AI startup is looking to add workers with data center experience to its ranks.Of the roughly 300 job listings on OpenAI's website at the time of publication, Business Insider counted more than 20 that appear to be directly related to data center development. Many of the open…

Ellen Pompeo isn't ready to scrub out of "Grey's Anatomy" just yet."That would make no sense, emotionally or financially. The show was streamed more than a billion times in 2024. More than a billion times," Pompeo told El País in an interview published on Sunday.The studios and streaming platforms behind the medical drama generate significant…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Sai Chiligireddy, an engineering manager at Amazon's Seattle office. It has been edited for length and clarity. Business Insider has verified his employment history.I joined Amazon nearly eight years ago as a software engineer and, after five years at the company, rose to an engineering management…