Yeah, let me give you a rundown on ops. You will be transferring numbers from one spreadsheet to the other, updating trader/client balances, reconcilling them. You will learn a lot, but not in the front office way. On the other hand, the job is very steady, very rarely more than 50 hours a week. So if you want a good work/life balance, go there, if you want to become a i-banking/investment professional, you won't become one going through operations.

 

thanks for your replies, everyone.

this isn't something i would want to do long term though i think it would be dumb to not show up for the interview.

in the long run i would like to do equity research or fixed income research, or maybe something in fixed income more broadly (or maybe also economic consulting). this isn't a first choice, though i go to a non-target (though pretty well respected) school so i feel like i should take advantage of the interview.

 

of course, go to the interview. What I am saying is, there are plenty of summer positions that are probably available to you that are more attractive for your career development than operations at a bank.

If it's not something you want to do long term, then absolutely try to avoid it for the summer.

 
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For operations, many times they will ask you in about your proficiency in Excel. Generally the questions tend to be mostly fit/behavior, though they may ask you about current events or what you know about the firm.

It is also important to note that a lot of operation interviewers are looking for people to stay within operations and not for people to jump to front office. Although maybe no one wants to stay in operations forever, you should come across as you do and you have no other plans to go to IBD or S&T.

 
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Once you get into OPS, there is no going back.

this is a retarded comment. i would agree if you were talking full time, but because it is for an internship theres nothing that you should be worried about at all. get the best job you can and don't look back. i would have loved to have GS ops on my resume as a sophomore. it will be an awesome experience

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