Recent Interview & Q&A Posts - Recent Interviews

For any of those who missed them here are all the recent interviews and Q&A posts from the last month. We have several more interviews coming up in September or if you are an industry professional and would like to help out your fellow monkeys by doing a Q&A forum post we'd love to have you; let me know if you have any questions or if I can help out in any way.

BlackHat (HF)

  1. Background / breaking into HF
  2. Working in HF, Money & Motivation
  3. Career advice for all you WSO Monkeys + how he advanced in his career
  4. BH's future, and some miscellaneous tips and thoughts

HappyPantsMcgee (Strategy at a top 5 bank)
Full Interview

TheKing (MM Banking and MM PE)
Part 1
Part 2

Rufiolove (IB Analyst)
Part 1. Part 2 coming this Thursday

Kenny_Powers_CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst)
Full Q&A Thread

erwannabe (recent hire in the ER field)
Q&A thread on how he broke into Equity Research

See all past interviews and q&a forum posts here

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