I'd disagree about your perceived upbringing mattering at all.

I don't know of any fund that hires technical staff like that. I mean we're here to make money, if someone can do that, no one cares what their social upbringing is, I mean like at all.

Now the school you went to matters, though it matters about as much as it would at a FAANG company.

And as to "how you present yourself, whether they want to work with you, how trustworthy you are, "

I would hope that all companies hire based on how someone presents themselves and would we want to work with them. Everyone should base hiring on how the candidate acts and presents themselves, that seems like an incredibly positive step, no?

> The technical pieces are pretty far behind.

Which specific fund are you referring to here. This seems very uninformed from my experience, but i'm willing to look at your evidence that hedge funds don't really value technical ability.