Citadel Sec/Citadel/GS

Recently received an offer from Citadel Sec with the fundamental analyst role under their option market making group. I also have other offer including an IB offer in one of the mid-tier BB(think BAML/CS/Citi) and a PE offer from Goldman Sachs, and I also got approached by the HR from Citadel LLC, the hedge fund side, and already went through the first round of the interview. I wonder how this role in Citadel Sec is regarded in general (within company and outside opinion). How should I choose. Thank you so much!!!

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Clearly you're smart enough to get offers from all of these places, so anywhere you go you'll do great. To be honest, you haven't really given any info besides you got these three offers, which would be necessary for anybody to give you advice of any worth. Without knowing you, do the one that most interests you

 

Just to give a fuller picture about myself. I want to do something that's more related to business eventually, like starting my own company or buying another company and start from there. Tbh I am fine with the ib guys and the citadel sec guys that I interviewed with so it seems to be very hard to differentiate from there. My only hesitation for taking the Citadel offer is that if I take this one, will I be able to shift back to IB/PE if I don't like it? How possible it is to get in the tier 1 IB/PE

 

Very helpful. I'd say if those are genuinely your long term goals, then going straight to IB/PE is the logical track, especially PE. Granted I don't think anybody at an investment bank would turn their nose at an application with a position at CitSec, so there's always that option. The thing I will caution you is not to expect IB to be "evaluating businesses" all the time. Take realistic views on if these jobs are going to help you learn the skills you want, or will it open doors to other positions that will then teach you those skills. Be sure you know exactly what your responsibilities are and see where people who left these positions went on to do as a proxy for your own choices. Hope that helps and congratulations

 

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