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People in the industry know Stephens, so you won’t have trouble getting acknowledged for your experience. That said, Stephens is a middle market bank and possibly in the lower tier of middle market as well. So depending on where you’re lateraling to, it could be viewed as a step up. Unless you have a personal reason to prefer Stephens (geography, etc.), it could be best to see the other interviews through before committing to this.

 

It’s not a bad look at all and definitely understandable. Difficulty can depend on what firm you’re targeting, your sector of expertise, the economy at the time, and luck. It probably won’t be hard to go from Stephens to UMM, and not super hard to go to BB. But with any lateral, you need the next firm to have an opening in your sector, and for you to know about it at the exact time you want to lateral. That’s the tricky part.

 
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Stephens ER pays well well below street comp and they aren't shy about it. The difference in their mentality though is they understand that they understand there is a set number of coverage analyst seats and for those juniors who've taken their lumps, they would much rather pull someone internally and teach them the industry vertical rather than go external to poach. As a result, the junior level morale isn't the highest, but it's probably one of the places that if you actually drink the kool-aid, it will actually pay off ultimately. Kyle (their DOR) is one of the true good guys on the street in my opinion, and if I ever went back to the SS, i'd probably suck up the comp and go work for him. 

 

Say you're an associate in industry vertical A and there is a coverage analyst in industry vertical B (for example purposes let's assume they are related but not the same...maybe industrials and homebuilders or something like that)...if you've paid your dues in vertical A for 3-4-5 years and done really really well, if coverage analyst leaves, the stephens MO is that they'd rather rotate you into that seat and get you trained up on the vertical than go out to another lower tier firm and try to poach a coverage analyst externally...so the path to leading coverage before you're 30 isn't crazy. Take a look at all their coverage guys on their website and you'll see probably 75% of them started their careers at Stephens which is unheard of on the street. 

 

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