Houston Summer 2020 Associate Recruiting

Recruiting for Summer Associates in Houston IB has just about wrapped up. Debrief thread to discuss results.

Overall, looks like UT & Rice placed really well. Much fewer UT MBAs recruited than usual. Rice MBA numbers seemed flat YOY. East Coast schools (especially Cornell) seem to be growing their share in Houston (especially at EVR).

What else do y'all have to add?

 
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At a northeast school and recruited Houston but chose elsewhere in the end. A few others from my school recruited Houston but have not heard their results.

Will be interesting to see if the much anticipated upstream consolidation takes place, it was a major turn off to hear so many bankers say deals had been shelved and put on hold. Wondering how much industry outlook affected overall numbers vs. banking being down across the board for MBAs.

 

Anecdotally everyone that was recruiting for Houston from Cornell Johnson got a gig. I've heard 4/4 placed, 1 at greenhill, 1 at goldman, 1 at jpm, and 1 at MS. Although, I ended up deciding on an nyc role over a houston role, it didn't look like associate recruiting was entirely down due to conditions, i think positions were flat overall and whatver specific differences firm to firm in hiring was just due to individual need.

 

People have a lot of guts recruiting for Houston oil and gas banking post MBA these days. The mood is very somber everywhere you look at banks here, perhaps with the exception of 1 or 2 places. While oil and gas isn’t going anywhere soon, the shale industry which drove deal flow in the US since the financial crisis is on its back and may begin to lose relevance in the global supply stack

 

Just went through summer associate recruiting at Rice and landed at my top choice after multiple offers; don't really think the demand for associates has really waned but the # of people recruiting for them has; last year I heard 40+ recruited and that year Rice placed 22, this year 28+ recruited and 20 got spots

 

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