It started with a "stick it to the industry" approach to develop a seemingly novel way to manage wealth, hiring some brilliant individuals to do something neat. When that didn't work, the strategy shifted to hiring the miserable, the old-fashioned, and the worst personalities from the street firms to run a mock of things.
And that's just it; the success formula is to maintain the status quo. Keeping that will make this company successful, so be prepared to deal with passive or aggressive management, individual contributors that catcall and use choice words to describe management, and so on. Maybe even retaliatory behaviors at the senior leadership level trickle down to the rumor mill.
Then, there is the geographical location issue, you may start with a starry-eyed perspective or be part of an office that feels like a graveyard, and the people in NYC know this. By the majority, they'll treat their colleagues with every permutation of bias that makes things less-than-cordial, often labeling and using euphemisms to explain the cultural norms, stopping at nothing to one-up practically anyone.
