Pod Shop FT Offers

NY IBD SA currently in the process of applying/interviewing for Point72, Citadel, and Millennium's FT Research Analyst (or in Citadel's case Associate) roles. Did a winternship at one of these three and hopefully should convert to a FT offer. How would you rank the three in terms of desirability to be in right out of undergrad? Is any firm "better" than the other or is it pod dependent? 

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Sorry - they don't tell much about the team you get to work with because that's decided after you complete the training program. That's why I was asking here

 

Still you can figure it out

citadel and MLP regularly chew through 1/3 of their workforce each year, p72 brands themselves as the firm which nurtures talent internally and helps them develop.

Start at P72, when you’re a risk taker maybe go elsewhere 

 

“Did a winternship at one of these three” lmao just say Point72. Point72 has probably the best training program for podshops straight out of undergrad because they’ve been established the longest. CAP and Millennium are up in the air since CAP is newer and Millennium’s “training program” is just sitting on the sell side at UBS for a year.

 

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