Leaving Two Year Program For A Job With More Pay

My friend is in a 2 year analyst program with me and we both have been only working for 7 months now. He just got an offer to leave the program for 60% more pay(Not a PE firm, but another bank). He is contemplating whether or not to leave. I know many of you guys were in two-year programs, is it worth waiting it out or should he bail?

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Its for IBD, it just pays more. However, with all these jobs requiring two year program graduates? Does that requirement disappear if you get a full time job or will they care in the future that someone left early in the program?

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