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+9 How to make a political science major stand out 5 1y
0 Goldman Sachs GIR Hirevue 1 1y
+12 What the heck do I do? 1 1y
+3 Regional and Community Bank issues 2 1y
0 Financial Technology Parters launches Equity Research division 2 1y
+6 Does anyone know who the top 5 Software analysts are? 6 1y
+10 not hearing back after second round interview 5 1y
+6 What is the working culture like at Morgan Stanley? 1 1y
+3 I’m from a non-target and have an interview with Lazard. 2 11mo
+6 Coffee Chats 2 1y
+4 Manipulating the markets 4 1y
+5 How would a potential CS+UBS merger impact the CS internship program? 5 1y
0 Fidelity Investments - Interview - Generalist Data 1y
+9 What Masters Program Will Help Place Me In ER/AM? 5 1y
+6 How young can an analyst be? 3 1y
0 Lincoln Financial Group - Salary & Bonus - Generalist Data 1y
+11 Moving to a sector I want to cover but with a brand new analyst… 3 1y
+21 Path to ER? 5 1y
+4 Path to Director of Research 2 1y
+9 Deciding between two 2024 offers (BB vs. LO AM) 21 1y
0 Ghosted by GS after 2 rounds of interviews 2 1y
0 Credit Suisse - Salary & Bonus - Investment Banking Data 1y
0 Credit Suisse - Review - Investment Banking Data 1y
0 Bank of America Merrill Lynch - Review - Equity Research Data 1y
+4 Fintech Research 2 1y
0 CFRA - Salary & Bonus - Consumer - Retail Data 1y
+4 Wolfe Ascend Program 2023 3 1y
+3 NAV model excel 1 1y
+8 Has anyone recently gone from ER to a single manager HF? 8 1y
+3 Capital IQ Pricing??? 1 1y
+3 Does a company have a negative return on invested capital if the company has more cash than stockholder's equity? 4 1y
+12 ER - IB relationship 8 1y
0 Westlake Securities - Review - NA Data 1y
+3 MS Early Insights Superday 1 1y
0 Needham & Company - Review - Equity Research Data 1y
0 Needham & Company - Salary & Bonus - Equity Research Data 1y
+13 Getting into Equity Research 1 1y
+5 Wolfe Research reputation update 7 1y
0 Fidelity International - Interview - Equity Research Data 1y
+16 The Plan 3 1y
+15 Lateral to ER from consulting 6 1y
0 Susquehanna International Group - Review - Equity Research Data 1y
0 Susquehanna International Group - Salary & Bonus - Equity Research Data 1y
+14 Wasting my time in small-cap ER? 8 1y
+15 Research Comp Progression 2 1y
0 Consumer Edge - Salary & Bonus - Equity Research Data 1y
+7 Susquehanna International Group Online Test 2 8mo
+14 Help reading in between lines (or accepting ghosting) 1 1y
+16 Equity research operations 4 1y
0 Third Bridge - Review - Generalist Data 1y
0 Wells Fargo and Company - Review - Equity Research Data 1y
+9 Senior Looking For Advice 2 1y
+9 ER Modeling Courses 1 1y
+22 What to do with a 3.1 GPA 7 1y
0 Scotiabank - Review - Healthcare Data 1y
0 Stifel Financial - Salary & Bonus - Healthcare Data 1y
+3 Any insight on United first partners? 1 1y
0 Morningstar - Review - Research Data 1y
0 Credit Suisse - Salary & Bonus - Equity Research Data 1y
0 Credit Suisse - Review - Equity Research Data 1y
0 Goldman Sachs - Review - Equity Research Data 1y
0 Goldman Sachs - Salary & Bonus - Equity Research Data 1y
+4 Summer 2024 Timeline 2 1y
+4 Del 1 1y
+3 How does ER work? 1 1y
0 BlackRock - Review - Equity Capital Markets Data 1y
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0 Wells Fargo and Company - Salary & Bonus - Equity Research Data 1y
0 Necessity of reaching steady state in a DCF 2 1y
+5 Biotech ER comp at Junior Levels 6 1y
+32 Regret joining sell-side, looking for advice 11 1y
0 Canalyst - Review - Generalist Data 1y
0 Canalyst - Salary & Bonus - Generalist Data 1y
0 Canalyst - Interview - Generalist Data 1y
0 JP Morgan Securities - Review - NA Data 1y
0 Goldman Sachs - Salary & Bonus - NA Data 1y
0 Berenberg Bank - Review - Equity Research Data 1y
0 DBS Group - Interview - Equity Research Data 1y
0 Credit Suisse - Interview - Generalist Data 1y
0 Bank of Montreal - Interview - Healthcare Data 1y
+31 WLB / weekend work - is this normal? 10 1y
0 T. Rowe Price - Salary & Bonus - Equity Capital Markets Data 1y
+3 Morningstar 1 1y
+7 Free cash flow to firm - Net debt 1 1y
0 Evercore - Salary & Bonus - Technology, Media and Telecom (TMT) Data 1y
+3 ER at small boutique vs Wealth Management at Merrill Lynch 1 1y
0 Bank of America Merrill Lynch - Salary & Bonus - Healthcare Data 1y
+1 2024 ER Internships 2 1y
0 Susquehanna International Group - Interview - Equity Research Data 1y
+17 How AI proof will be the 70% of careers in finance in 15 years? 2 1y
0 JPMorgan Chase - Salary & Bonus - Research Data 1y
0 JPMorgan Chase - Review - Research Data 1y
+20 Optiver Graduate Equity Analyst Programme 12 7mo
+10 How to Break into Equity Research 3 1y
0 JPMorgan Chase - Interview - Mergers and Acquisitions Data 1y
0 UBS Financial Services - Review - Equity Research Data 1y
+111 What's the appeal of investing in oil stocks? 30 4w
+6 Effect of High Institutional Ownership on Stock Analysis? 1 1y

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