Cargill Commodity Trading Internship

Cargill is a great trade house for ags, and the biggest one of the ABCD's I think. You should take it if you're interested in trading. 

I interned with them you can pm me if you have specific questions. Generally, Cargill is the most prestigious of the ABCD. You're going to have to start in a random midwestern location (most likely) for at least a year. Commodities unlike banking doesn't really have exit opps. Your goal is to get a trading seat. Cargill likes promoting internally, but you can try to go to places like glencore or smaller shops to get paid more. If you like ags, Cargill is the best place start imo. Career starts as an associate (1yr) to marketer (1/2/3) to senior marketer. 

Long term prospects and growth and growth are directly tied to your talent level. If you are good and get along with people well then the sky is the limit. You could be living in Minneapolis and running one of their large desks in 7-10 years if you wanted. Or if you aren't very good you will get passed up for promotion after promotion and end up running logistics at some other shop because you couldn't make it at Cargill. It really is up to you and your talent. Same for exit opps. This isn't banking so it isn't like you join with the intent of going somewhere else eventually because hopefully the hours will be better. Cargill, once again, if you're talented, is the exit opp. Trader's hours aren't that intense and the pay can be great. Assuming you have what it takes then with that skillset they teach you you could end up at any other ag trader or a commodity processor.

Just interviewed with Cargill last week under the corp strat team. People there were truly talented with most of them coming out from McK, can't talk about the trading side of Cargill though

IIRC that thread was mine, and I did end up taking the internship, so PM me if you have any questions. My thought process was, I am interested in this company and this job as a physical trader, I have 12 weeks to explore and see if this is what I want to do and if I can stand living in the midwest, and if I hate it I never have to do it again and still get a big company and good job experience.

I think return of the tapes is 100% spot on with his comment about HR, but the ABCD's are getting much better over the past few years for the people they bring in for internships and especially full time. Everything everyone has said is true, they promote internally and recognize talent, if you can make it they will give you more responsibility and have a great opportunity to grow. 

I got a full time offer there but chose to not go.  Honestly, it's a great company with great people and training.  The biggest obstacle for me was the amount of other stuff that you have to learn and work/rotate on to finally get to trading (along with the relatively low pay on paper).  As someone who wants to make money now, (it may be shortsighted) but I decided to go into prop trading instead although I'm sure I would've enjoyed life more working at a place like Cargill.  Nevertheless, I trade commodity futures, so perhaps I can go to a commodity shop one day. 

I have offers at other asset mgmt firms but they're more for mid office position. I might take the Cargill position and see if I like it. If not, I can lateral into a prop shop eventually.