BB S&T (CS/MS/Citi) vs. BlackRock Strategy for Summer?

Trying to decide between two SA offers. Equally interested in both lines of work, although I really like project-based, strategic work so BlackRock is winning. However, I don't know if I want to be in that industry forever or whether or not I would have as many exit opportunities as S&T. So, for someone who is from a non-finance, non-target background and just getting into the industry what would be the best move?

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Best Response

What kinds of jobs would you be interested in after? BlackRock and the banks you've listed are all well-known brands..if you like the strategy type of work, and would be interested in moving into a similar role elsewhere, BR is obviously the better choice.

What kinds of exit opportunities do you believe you'll have from S&T? You develop a relatively narrow skill-set (many would say non-transferable, especially if you end up in trading) in S&T and there is no point in doing it if the exit ops you may have (e.g. execution trading at a hedge fund, as one example) aren't interesting to you...

I personally wouldn't take S&T unless I was interested in doing the work for at least a couple of years, and only if work I may want to do after is related.

 

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