What % of IBD incoming analyst class complete 2 year stint?

Just curious about this.... I have no personal thoughts of dropping early. But, how often do you see a first year or second year analyst quit to go do something else? Generally, how much of the incoming analyst class (in IBD specifically) complete the 2 year stint?

 

Haven't seen many do it, but then again the job market has sucked since 2008...I'd be interested to know if it was more common back in the bull market.

The folks I have seen do it left for non-finance jobs (going to work for a F500 client, for instance). But it always seemed like a fairly insignificant number, maybe ~10% over 2 years.

 

Back in 2007, I'd say somewhere between 10 to 20% didnt make it. Most people bounced or were recommended to leave after the first year. Some people left halfway through year 2 because they got job offers for immediate starts.

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What kinda positions did they leave for Ricqles? How common/easy is it to learn the ropes at a boutique for a year and then move to a MM as a 2nd-year analyst?

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What kinda positions did they leave for Ricqles? How common/easy is it to learn the ropes at a boutique for a year and then move to a MM as a 2nd-year analyst?

one went to hf, one went to pe, one to start his own thing. That being said, only 2 people left in my class don;t have anything lined up for 2012 and two others have mm pe lined up for 2012 so that might be why there are people in my class still

it depends the type of "boutique" you are working for. If it's a well-known one i dont think you would lateral to a MM but yes, usually it's fairly easy.

 

My class of 2010 had just a little over 120 in the U.S..

3 from one group left.

1 kid who had a summer 2012 PE position at a very top MM firm already lined up left for a well-known tech start-up.

1 hated his capital markets group and left.

1 from Levfin left.

1 from tech left.

1 from my group left.

1 lateraled to another bank.

1 left after just a few days.

1 got laid off and ended up at a very good bank.

2 from a certain group left. One went to a well-known tech firm.

GRAND TOTAL = 13 that I know of

 

A friend of mine had 75% of his class quit within the first year. It was bad news bears. The big-wigs ended up getting involved because of my buddies group, instituted some policies to make it a bit easier on them. They were consistently working 90-100 hours per week, it apparently wasn't rare at all to be in the office for 100-110.

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JPM supposedly hires more than the average amount of analysts because of high turnover rate. I hear that if you do a poor job, they work you harder and longer to push you into quitting. Of course those are all rumors...

 

That's surprising, I've heard mostly good things about JPM. Except for that post on their NatRes group that I guess lost every analyst they had or something ridiculous like that.

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The term you're looking for is "immediate start" opportunities.

It usually won't happen with PE because there's a pretty set structure (interview in winter of first year, for offer that is summer after second year - 1.5 years in advance basically. Then you work for them for 2-3 years and leave to do other things). Occasionally you'll see a PE firm raise a larger fund than they expected or unexpectedly lost an associate, and they'll consider looking at candidates (sometimes including those with PE firms do. HF's usually don't care as much about the deal experience that you have because there's less overlap in the skillset, compared to PE, so there's no hard and fast 2 years of IB requirement. All of this means a lot more immediate starts and kids skipping out a year or so early.

 

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