Natixis Is Paradise
It’s a crisp March morning of your junior year at a college that’s known more for its epic tailgates than its finance program. You’ve just aced a quiz in ECON 101 (thanks to the quizlet set you found online), and you’re feeling like the next Warren Buffet. As you sit in the quad, sipping a latte that’s more sugar than coffee, your phone buzzes with an email notification. It’s from Natixis, a name you vaguely remember from a late-night Wikipedia dive into ‘banks no one talks about’.
The email, littered with clip-art and comic sans, invites you for an interview. You can’t help but chuckle at the thought. Natixis? Isn’t that the bank where finance dreams go to gently weep? But hey, an interview is an interview. You skim through your ‘Intro to Corporate Jargon’ notebook you made for occasions like these and prep yourself.
Before the interview, you do a quick search on some finance forums for Natixis. All you find are threads by James29K and ThatMD12, two users who seem bizarrely enthusiastic about the place. “Natixis is the hidden gem of finance,” writes James29K. ThatMD12 adds, “Forget Goldman and J.P., Natixis is where the real magic happens!” Their over-the-top hype has you wondering if they’re undercover HR reps or just really into underdog stories.
Interview day comes, and you’re in your dad’s hand-me-down suit that smells faintly of mothballs and lost ambitions. The Natixis office is less ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ and more ‘Cubicles of Mild Discontent’. You meet your interviewer, a guy who introduces himself as Bob, wearing a tie with cartoon fish on it. The interview questions are so easy you wonder if this is a prank. “What’s your favorite Excel function?” Bob asks with a straight face. You answer ‘SUM’ and he nods impressively.
Post-interview, you’re almost certain you’ve got the job. You didn’t even break a sweat explaining how you once managed a budget of $200 for your fraternity’s pizza night. Leaving the building, you text your friends, “Just aced the Natixis thing. Might start my career in a place where the coffee’s bad but the expectations are lower.”
A week later, the offer comes through. It’s an email, with a winking emoji and a line that says, “Welcome to the big leagues, sort of.” You accept, because, well, why not? You imagine your future: leisurely days, zero stress, and a job title that sounds impressive if you don’t look too closely.
You’re already planning your LinkedIn post, a humble brag about joining the ranks of Natixis. “From Econ 101 to finance titan,” you type, before deleting it for something less ironic. The salary’s not Wall Street level, but it’s enough for rent and those fancy craft beers you pretend to like.
Day one at Natixis is a breeze. Your desk has a view of the parking lot and your computer still runs Windows 95. But hey, this is paradise, right? Low bars and even lower stress. As you lean back in your chair, you think, “Maybe this is what peak finance looks like. Or maybe, just maybe, it’s where ambition takes a nice, long nap.”
You smile, open up Excel, and type in ‘=SUM’. Ah, Natixis is paradise.

Great content
I want an answer from james29k, this can’t be right, Natixis is a bulge bracket
Great post, however you got a few things wrong
The view is not of a parking lot. You got that part wrong, you get a beautiful view of the NYC skyline. Also Natixis is a pretty well known bank, an excellent MM which acquired the great P.J Solomon (also known as Solomon Partners).
One last thing the salary is quite high, you got that part wrong as well. Summer Analysts earn $41/ an hour.. which is 85K a year + bonus.
and with that, I wont post about Natixis anymore my friends. I’ll try my best to hold back.
bro got all of his burner accounts to give bananas
Stop hating lil bro.
Natixis occupies lower levels of the Exxon building on the sixth avenue. They can’t see NYC skyline view from those floors.
Its the Avenue of the Americas building 39th floor. Did you just make that up or are trolling?
Are you in back office natixis or front office natixis?
I find way too much joy in this
From the 5th floor of a midtown skyscraper, really great view!
I’m getting Natixis cookies ads on WSJ because of james29k. Well done, NSA overlords
Aren’t junior bonuses there 10k?
No, bonuses are typically A1 25k, A2, 35k, As1 (stub): 35-40k. Depends on the deal size and volume. Not sure where you heard this, put some respect on Natixis
ThatMD12, can you stop taking what I said as a real person that works at Natixis as your own? No wonder this got MS when it comes from you.
That's untrue. Know a guy who was an associate and he said he received 20k top bucket bonus although base was 120 or 130. This was 2-3 years ago so pay could changed since then
Really I've met associates making 30K bonus, probably has increased.
This sounds right for 2-3 years ago. Lot of associates left 2020-21 for non existent bonuses. Since then, might have jumped only 10-20k
I've met an associate who made less than 10k there for bonus and now he's a vp
Must have been bottom bucket
Have also heard bonuses at Natixis are typically 10k for top bucket; less for those who aren’t
FWIW last year As1 stub was around 35-50k.
Analysts: 15-40k
Associates: 20-150k
They only have a few teams driving PnL that would make the high end of that range, most associates make the lower end.
120k base and 10k bonus? That’s less than a first year analyst at most places
What are hours like there? Is 130k including bonus a good salary for better WLB?
Its a European Bank so they focus a lot on work life balance, I believe 40-60 hours a week
This is desk dependent. Markets usually clears out by 6pm. LevFin/Real Assets by 8pm. Sometimes you get weekend work. Seems like most of the seniors understand not assigning weekend work if not truly urgent.
most recent scale is 105k An1 / 110k An2 / 130k As1 / ~140-150k As2. Still way below street.
Is 130k for aso including bonus (120k base + 10k bonus)?
Which colleges do they recruit from and are they taking interns for 2025
I heard they recruit from non targets
Primarily target schools in the US, don't know about Europe
Not exactly true, they tend to hire below average kids from targets (I.e. Stern)
Based on LinkedIn, the colleges they recruit from the most are:
Universite Paris Dauphine
University of Paris Pantheon Sarbonne
Universite Paris Cite
Paris Pantheon Assas University
ESCP Business School
ESSEC Business School
Universite Paris Nanterre
HEC Paris
And numerous others. If you go to any of these schools, you have a good chance of getting hired there
Comme c'est prestigieux!
lmao imagine busting your ass to get into HEC Paris in end up Natixis doing markets/LMM levfin
For US, I'd say mostly private schools in the northeast (think like Fairfield, BC, schools like that). 2024 recruiting just finished up, 2025 recruiting would start mid-fall 2024. Should be posted on LinkedIn/your school's handshake.
Is it true that they nabbed MCD capital’s (Tier 1 BB) MD? Saw the story going around didn’t know if it was true
Do people at Solomon partners have to state they work at Natixis?
No, they work at Solomon. It's not integrated and Solomon is independent.
As someone who used to work at a boutique owned by Natixis, this is great. No clue why all the chat is about them, but entertaining nonetheless.
Isn’t Natixis located in 1251 AoA? I don’t know of any parking lots nearby.
Does Natixis do M&A aside from Solomon Partners?
What capital markets deals have they been on? Haven't seen them on the league tables
No M&A in the US as far as I'm aware. May do something in EMEA/France. Trying to think in terms of capital markets, the only thing on league tables is middle market CLOs I guess.
For others like infrastructure it's just really financing and being on MLA league tables.
What are the strongest divisions at Natixis
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