Help - JP Morgan vs. Wellington Management Research

Not an expert but Wellington is one of the best names in IM, and the ER program is extremely selective with great comp (130k 1st year, working much less than banking hours). Exit opps to Bschool are great from what I've seen, and upward mobility within the firm is great as well (lots of opportunities to go from Associate--->Analyst---> eventually a PM if thats the end goal). Can't really speak for JPM How did you get an offer already though? I thought the final rounds are next month?

Mis-wrote. Do not have offer from Wellington. Final round Dec. 2nd. Nonetheless, would leave to hear thoughts and opinions.

I'm sure there are more knowledgeable people who can comment but I would choose bs research. However, JPM has top tier research on the ss

Wait for the super day and hope you get an offer from Wellington. Wellington > JPM every day of the week. That's not a slam on JPM, but a role at Wellington is really rare and would be a great experience.

For most people, I'd recommend working at Wellington. Even among the top asset managers (e.g. Fidelity, T. Rowe, etc.), Wellington is still considered the top of the top. There's not many better places for you to start a career on the buy-side.

That assumes, of course, that your long-term goal is to work on the buy-side.I'm working at a top sell-side ER firm of similar caliber to JPM next year, and personally I like the notion of sell-side research better. But I'm somewhat of an anomaly.

Just reiterating what's been said already, but so long as you want to pursue a career in investment research, Wellington beats JPM by leaps and bounds.

If you have stones, go to Wellington if you get the offer. If you want to be the expert who tells other people how to invest money but isn't willing to do it himself, go to JPM. If I were interviewing you for a buyside role at some point in the future after you had spent time at JPM, and I learned that you turned down an offer at Welly, I would probably neg you right away. Just my opinion.

I vote Wellington - would have killed to get a role like that coming out of U-grad.

However, you also have a JP ER offer, which could get you on the buy-side easier.

Either way you'd be good.

Was fortunate enough to receive Wellington offer this Friday - ended up accepting JP. Gonna try sell-side, if I hate it... can always apply back to buy-side.

It's sell side vs buy side. Depends on what your career goals are. Both are good names. If you want to become a sell-side analyst, go with JPM. If you want to eventually work on buy-side, go for Wellington.

That said, Wellington is very prestigious. I've heard of people jumping from JPM to Wellington... but not so much the other way around.

Wow,

Oh dear. One of those threads that just needs to be bumped once in a while. Lest we forget.

These threads come up once in a while and are easily identifiable. It starts with someone asking an extremely easy question such as "I got offers from Bain and PWC, which one should I take" and then after arguing with consensus, they will end up saying "I picked PWC because I hear it's growing much faster".

PS: They never had an offer at Bain.

Can anyone tell me about Wellington's interview process? I just had an onsite ER interview there where I met with multiple analysts. Do you know how quickly they will tell you about their decision?

Well shit here we are 6 years later. How’d it turn out?