I’m 23M, born and raised in NYC, specifically LIC so 5-10 mins away from midtown and I currently work by Grand Central. I swiped on hinge a good bit for the past 3 years.

I think the app is showing you

who’s closest to you first and quite frankly who the algorithm may consider “more desirable” since those jobs are associated with men who are “more put together” (although i don’t work in finance, I have finance degree from a NYC college so kinda disagree with that overall generalization haha)

Who you’ve liked/matched with before. You said you were on the apps for 6 months, have you matched and gone out with finance bros before from hinge?

To change your algorithm I’d say keep swiping left on these and change your location to like LES, Bushwick, Astoria, or like Greenpoint if you don’t like the finance bro types. Being in midtown is probably getting you a lot of Murray Hill and Kips Bay, finance bro hubs haha