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You know it's intern season when...
You know it's intern season when... - Someone sends you an email and it has your first name followed with a comma - Someone sends you an email and it has your first name behind a Mr/Mrs. - Someone sends you an email and they hit reply all. - Someone locks their keys in the car (lol) - Someone sends...
Hairstyles - Hair Wax and Gel
Do any of you guys know if people wax their hair everyday throughout the summer for work? Is having a normal un-styled r formal / professional enough for an SA stint?
MoneyNews = RSS feed for red-necks and tea party activists
Is it just me or is the MoneyNews feed extremely disturbing with it's constant anti-Obama slamming non-stop crisis reporting? Below is a summary of the current feed: •Investment Adviser: Bond Meltdown Will Fell Governments •Steve Forbes: Fed’s QE Is like the Titanic •Retirement Expert:...
WSO Event Calendar Live - Happy Hrs Welcome!
Have a happy hour or a WSO meetup you want to schedule? Throw it up on the WSO Event Calendar to share it with the community. WSO Events This just went live recently - let me know what you guys think. Thanks! Patrick ps - don't forget to get in on your 2012 WSO Conference tix before the discounted...
Should I call?
Hi guys, I have an informational interview coming up next week. I was wondering, should I call or do they call me? I don't have her contact information, aside from her e-mail address, but I can ask. Although, I gave her my contact information. Again, I just want to know if I should call her or...
Wallstreetoasis.com is blocked in Russia
So, last couple days trying to access WSO , I got the message from my ISP (short translation): Dear users! We apologize, but access to this website is forbidden. Possible reasons for this might be: 1. Address of the website is included in the List of Forbidden Websites. 2. Access to the website is...
WSO MEETUP- 45th & 10th, 6PM THURS MARCH 29TH
Hosting a meetup next week thursday at the Pony Bar in Midtown West to celebrate shorttheworld's admission to Duke, trailmix's INSEAD admit, my MSF admit, and other folks' admission to various b-schools and grad schools, and also just because we have not had a meetup for a while:...
Should WSO Use Cash for Silicon Valley Oasis?
This week, Apple, UPS, and Amazon put their cash reserves to use, and if that is news to you then you probably live in a hole. Maybe it is a sign that the economy is improving, but who cares? All that matters is that investment bank advisory departments are absorbing some solid fees. Although none...
M&I vs WSO Guides
I checked out both - WSO's new version is more comprehensive that the older version, but M&I is just nuts. M&I has a lot more questions and covers a pretty wide spectrum of materials. So my question is - is WSO not sufficient or is M&I going overboard?
And the Golden Banana Award for WSO's Most Valuable Monkey Goes To...
CompBanker!!!!!!!! So, for a side project in an analytics club I am in, I decided to use some statistical measures to evaluate the monkeys here on WSO . I took the top 250 monkeys and calculated 10 different metrics, each with their own point total and ranked them accordingly. At the end of my...
Effect of WSO on Competition
What effects have sites like M&I and WSO had on IB /finance recruiting? Do you feel as if every single kid you come across who used to want to go to law school, every friend majoring in finance and their cousin are now interested in IB due to how much its been hyped up by the internet? Over the past...
Wednesdays With Midas
I had an idea a while back about doing an interactive post, but didn't really know how to best pull it off. Comments are cool, but I really wanted to do something conversational. Coincidentally, a few days later Patrick rolled out the new and improved WSO chat. Eddie was the first to suggest it on a...
Guys, The Woman had to have Read this website.
Also, Wall Street doesn't recruit the best of the brightest, they recruit the most privileged. ...go!
Use WSO with caution
I've been on WSO for a few years under various usernames. I've gained a lot of knowledge from this site and the resume review section was really helpful in perfecting my resume. I'd say that I check WSO almost every day. I recently accepted a full time offer with a group that is touted a lot on this...
Where can I find a database of real estate firms?
The Wall Street Oasis Company Database includes thousands of financial firms, including those specialising in real estate. This database allows you to filter and search by zip code, industry and keyword. Included in the database are thousands of compensation data points as well as company reviews...
Where can I find a list of finance terms and definitions?
Click here for the Wall Street Oasis Finance Dictionary where you can find over 400 different terms and definitions used in finance.
Where can I find a database of corporate firms?
The Wall Street Oasis Company Database includes thousands of financial firms, including F500 firms. This database allows you to filter and search by zip code, industry and keyword. Included in the database are thousands of compensation data points as well as company reviews and interview insights by...
Where can I find a database of equity research firms?
The Wall Street Oasis Company Database includes thousands of financial firms, including equity research firms. This database allows you to filter and search by zip code, industry and keyword. Included in the database are thousands of compensation data points as well as company reviews and interview...
Where can I find a database of venture capital firms?
The Wall Street Oasis Company Database includes thousands of financial firms, including venture capital firms. This database allows you to filter and search by zip code, industry and keyword. Included in the database are thousands of compensation data points as well as company reviews and interview...
Where can I find a database of consulting firms?
The Wall Street Oasis Company Database includes thousands of financial firms, including consulting firms. This database allows you to filter and search by zip code, industry and keyword. Included in the database are thousands of compensation data points as well as company reviews and interview...
Where can I find a database of private equity firms?
The Wall Street Oasis Company Database includes thousands of financial firms, including private equity firms. This database allows you to filter and search by zip code, industry and keyword. Included in the database are thousands of compensation data points as well as company reviews and interview...
Where can I find a database of trading firms?
The Wall Street Oasis Company Database includes thousands of financial firms, including trading firms. This database allows you to filter and search by zip code, industry and keyword. Included in the database are thousands of compensation data points as well as company reviews and interview insights...
Where can I find a database of investment banking firms?
The Wall Street Oasis Company Database includes thousands of financial firms, including investment banks . This database allows you to filter and search by zip code, industry and keyword. Included in the database are thousands of compensation data points as well as company reviews and interview...
Funny WSO threads?
Welcome to WallStreetOasis's collection of funny threads, we think you'll have a hearty laugh at what's found here. Disclaimer: WSO does not wish to make fun of any person and welcomes questions of all kinds. By posting your thread to the humor section, we merely thought the responses were...
How much is WSO worth?
I went to this website that supposedly estimates a website's worth. According to it, WSO is worth $652,901 http://www.how-much-is-my-website-worth.info/prof… What do you think?
Where can I find a database of Wall Street recruiters?
We now have an extensive recruiter database as part of our Company Database . All you have to do is select "Recruiter" under the Industry drop down and you can filter by location as well if you like. It is an extremely extensive database that includes the best recruiters for the top buyside shops to...
What are some common acronyms used on WSO?
If you are confused by all the lingo getting thrown around Wall Street and the WSO forums, you've come to the right place. We know it can be confusing but don't worry, we are here to help! Below you will find a comprehensive list of finance acronyms for words and phrases in finance. This is a great...
How do I sign up for a free account with WSO?
All you have to do to create a free account on WSO is click here ! If you sign up, you can start collecting bananas and gaining status in the community. If you are a finance professional and develop a great reputation in the community, we may even invite you to join our Certified User group. You...
How much does Wall Street Oasis cost?
Wall Street Oasis will cost you $0 and 0 bananas to join. WSO started as a community and we will continue to offer access to our forums and the wealth of information they contain to all site visitors free of charge. We've also added a couple of other free features including our Company Database...
What is Wall Street Oasis (WSO)?
Wall Street Oasis is the largest and most entertaining finance community online. With over 1,000,000 posts to date and four million page views a month, you can be sure that your questions will get answered in our finance forums by experienced professionals. WSO also provides several services to help...
Future of WSO
So I wanted to start this thread to get feedback / opinions from the community on how WSO is doing??? We've put in a lot of time and $ recently into site performance and layout, but there have not been any HUGE changes I think for a few years now. Every few months I like to ask you guys how we are...
wso chatroom?
Is it gone now?
It's that time of year again, Fantasy Football.
If people are interested again this year I'll be setting up a WSO Fantasy Football league. One condition is if you know that you'll never check it please do not say you're interested or if you know nothing about the NFL and don't even watch games. Thanks, Bfin. We use Yahoo, sorry forgot to mention...
14 Year Old Hedge Fund Manager
I came across this kid who thinks he is a great trader on YouTube, and he was able to impress the judges on this TV show where you can pitch business venture ideas and attain seed funding to start a mini hedge fund.
Change to Company Database
I'd like to see a feature added to the Company Database . I think it would be extremely helpful to be able to search by role/function so that if someone wanted to find all comp data for SAs , for example, it would show all SA comp data for every company across every field. The search results could...
NEW - WSO Recommended Reading
WSO is in the process of building reading lists for new users to be able to enjoy. What does that mean? It's your chance to weigh in! To get an idea of what we'd like these reading lists to encompass, check out WSO's Recommended Reading for Investment Banking
But Seriously, Do You Like Phil Collins?
“I think my greatest achievement would be ‘Sussudio,’ hands down. Seriously. What are you laughing at?” – from the Uncyclopedia entry on Phil Collins We haven't had a quality discussion on Wall Street music on WSO since the Superday Playlist thread, so here's a tribute to someone who...
WSO's New Addition: Frequently Asked Questions
WallStreetOasis Members, Today I’d like to officially announce a project that we’ve been working on for some time: WallStreetOasis.com 's Frequently Asked Questions , or FAQs , page. The purpose of this portion of the site is two-fold. First, we hope that by having the answers to a variety of...
Attention Seekers on WSO
You guys ever notice that most guys who come on WSO offering to give advice on how to break in or leave the field are those that are in the lower tier firms (with the exception of a minor few, notably the MS/ KKR guy)? Those who offer to give advice on IBD usually are from MM or boutique firms, same...
The WSO awards – Let’s make it happen!
A few months back, HarvardorBust suggested that we should do an annual WSO Posters Awards night to recognize those who have either helped, or set back the community in whatever way and while a lot supported the idea, after much fanfare it pretty much just died. Well, I thought we should resurrect...
Goodbye WSO!
Fellow monkeys, I've been active in wso since about 2006, and it's been a great experience. I've learned a lot from the various posters, made a few friends, and really enjoyed the contents. I sincerely hope that I've been helpful to others as well. Due to some recent events, however, I arrived at...
WSO 2011 Member of the Year - voting ends tonight
Voting ends tonight for the WSO 2011 Member of the Year - make sure to get your vote in if you haven't already! Vote in the poll here
WSO: Behind the Scenes
Greetings guys, So Eddie and I just wrapped up another episode of NSFW and I hope you enjoy it. This creates the perfect segue into something that's been on my mind lately. I want to take this quick snippet of your Saturday to point out something that many of you already know, but some may not have...
OWS Protesting OCR Events?
Read this article in NYT, was wondering if any of the ivy leaguers on here have experienced this? My school is fairly conservative so I have not seen any of it, but it seems pretty ridiculous to me.
Braces.
A/S/L - 20/m/moon ^ With the above would you get braces if dentist rec-emended getting them? Time - 4 Months to be on Pros- Straight Teeth Con - Metal mouth, no eating gum :( or Luftwaffey taffey Y/N halp me wso in this time of tribulation be my light in the tunnel though this dark time
UC Davis Incident
What's everyone's thoughts on what happened at UC Davis? As much as I disagree with the Occupy movements (though a few of their demands are on point), this is nuts. The students were participating in a peaceful sit in when a rent-a-cop went on a power trip and pepper sprayed the shit out of...
WSO is 40,000 Strong and Counting
We just hit the 40,000 member mark so I'd like to take the time to thank all of the users that have made WSO such a valuable resource. Thank you. We still have many improvements that are in the works - thanks to all those that took the time to give us feedback:...
iPhone and Android App
I'm sure that there are budget constraints, and I have no idea how much the development of a mobile application is; however, an app on my smartphone would be epic!
How Do You Take Your Kool-Aid?
I was puzzling over the best way to round out Class Warfare Week on WSO when Forbes dropped it into my lap last night - the annual Forbes 400 List of Wealthiest Americans . What better way to illustrate the wealth disparity in America than the vaguely pornographic financial exposure of our ruling...
Occupy Wallstreet's Acronym Is An Anagram of Wallstreet Oasis'
OWS WSO My face when I realized this...
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