+23 L/S Pitch during Interview 10 9mo
+23 Typical Hiring Timeline for Small HF? 17 9mo
+23 What does “you are not a good fit” mean? 16 9mo
+23 Future of Merger Arb/Event Driven 17 9mo
+23 Absolute Competence vs. Signaling When Breaking in 11 6mo
+23 Point 72 Spring Week London Process? 18 6mo
+23 How long should HF recruiting take? 7 2mo
+23 How Much Do Pod Analysts Think About Factors? 9 4mo
+23 Transitioning from LO to HF. Need some advice 10 3mo
+23 Struggling with Operating Model Build 3 2mo
+23 SM / MM hedge fund recruiting from PE 8 1mo
+22 HF reference check 10 4mo
+22 How much would you pay for a ChatGPT wrapper that sums up a 10-K and 10-Q report? 27 10mo
+22 Verition Summer Internship 27 5mo
+22 Help stock pitching 4 9mo
+22 Short Stock Pitch - Prep 4 9mo
+22 Future of pod shops for systematic trading 4 8mo
+22 Just started, are these red flags? 19 8mo
+22 Avoid Brevan Howard - Hedge Fund - Especially Abu Dhabi 3 8mo
+22 would you pursue long only equities as a career today? 5 7mo
+22 Advice - IBD Mid Level VP —> HF 12 5mo
+22 IB vs Manager Selection 14 4mo
+22 Small SM fund over BB IB. Please sanity check 6 4mo
+22 Secure job making $500k/year vs. MM pod analyst 31 3mo
+22 Richard Toad’s pedigree 20 2mo
+22 Ares ASOF 21 1mo
+22 Poor distressed returns 17 2mo
+22 Would you stay? 9 3mo
+22 Does law pay better than top HF? 25 1mo
+21 How HFs Use Multiples 14 11mo
+21 How much do asssociates at bridgewater make? 28 8mo
+21 Viking Global Application Question 25 7mo
+21 Desparation For SA26 (Sophomore) 18 6mo
+21 Starting career in event driven pod 7 3mo
+21 Tips for Assessing Level of Modelling Granularity in a Case Study? 5 6mo
+21 US vs UK Hedge Fund Careers: Is the Gap Really That Big? 15 5mo
+21 LO / MM HF Recruiting out of MBA 4 5mo
+21 Turnover rate at pod shops for junior analysts? 9 5mo
+21 Activist Funds | Recruitment Experience 9 2d
+21 Fundamental Edge, Analyst Academy 27 1mo
+21 Bridgewater IA vs DESCO PT vs Brevan Howard vs MMs (all for Macro) 17 3mo
+21 Bloomberg HF News: Commentary RE: Multistrats & Spinouts 2 3mo
+21 We need to talk about AI 8 2mo
+20 Scaled SM or MM FT 4 11mo
+20 Is the market too efficient for Activist Investors 7 11mo
+20 How much capital is required to launch fund in US? 19 10mo
+20 6-8YOE at sub-scale SM LO going to MBA to change geos, but am i too old? HF Inv 11 9mo
+20 Ricky Mewani Citadel Loss 28 1mo
+20 The future of HF 21 8mo
+20 What is up with all the P72 academy kids who got cut? 26 5mo
+20 Working in alpha capture/central risk book 6 7mo
+20 Being asked for bonus expectations 17 6mo
+20 Moving from s&t BB to quant HF 5 5mo
+20 Energy IBD --> Hedge Fund - Is It Possible? 12 3mo
+20 Quality of SM Candidate 11 5mo
+20 Phoenix Learning 7 4mo
+20 How do I get faster at updating/building complicated models? 5 3mo
+20 How long can a fund last with 3rd quartile performance 5 2mo
+20 From BCG to HF in UAE 11 2mo
+20 Future of Publics 9 2mo
+20 Citadel Strategic Equity Investments (Nabeel Bhanji) 8 2w
+20 Question on senior HF comp structure 6 2w
+19 Exit opps as Quant @ HF 12 10mo
+19 Taking a <100m L/S Hedge-fund Analyst job? 3 10mo
+19 Abdiel internship 21 2mo
+19 Why do SMs seemingly have more conventionally "cracked" backgrounds than MM? 13 5mo
+19 Research vs risk-taking role 4 6mo
+19 Short Selling Focused Hedge Funds 10 4mo
+19 Stay in PE or potentially recruit to HF 17 4mo
+19 '27 Pod looking for '26 internship - Hungry and Hard Working 1 4mo
+19 Modern / relevant distressed debt book recommendations? 8 3mo
+19 Navigating IB -> MM 8 2mo
+19 Citadel Global Fixed Income (Mini) Blowup? 5 2mo
+19 Graduate Program in Tier1 platform or directly start at a Tier2 platform 8 1mo
+19 Commodities PE to commodity HF/Pod? 6 1mo
+19 Citadel Best Teams? 25 2w
+18 Views on King Street? 14 11mo
+18 Zegona Communications 6 11mo
+18 Channel check = insider info?? 6 9mo
+18 Do quant PMs at MM HFs start out as traders or researchers? 9 10mo
+18 Heading to a credit HF but did M&A 5 10mo
+18 Help with networking 6 10mo
+18 L/S vs the rest 17 7mo
+18 SWE in FAANG to Quant 10 9mo
+18 Del 13 9mo
+18 Shareholder Activism Investment Banking -->> Activist Hedge Fund 8 9mo
+18 Leveraging offers in other processes 12 8mo
+18 Violated personal trading policy 3x at a major fund am I cooked? 16 8mo
+18 HF Interview - 3 Stock Ideas 13 7mo
+18 What happened to young people founding hedge funds? 7 7mo
+18 Best ways to frame upside / PT for a stock 1 7mo
+18 Citadel FCAT test 24 1mo
+18 Case Study: The Structural Pivot from "Activist" to "Quality" at Pershing Square 1 5mo
+18 Large Cap Biotech AI/automation/quant risks 11 4mo
+18 HF Guys: What do you read? 8 2mo
+18 Distressed Credit Experience 8 3mo
+18 Junior Looking for HF Internship - Advice? 7 2mo
+18 NY to APAC Pivot 9 3w
+18 MIT Quant Sophomore - Need Advice 5 4w
+18 What does comp look like for top HFs? 19 1w

Career Advancement Opportunities

June 2026 Investment Banking

  • Evercore 01 99.4%
  • Moelis & Company 01 98.8%
  • JPMorgan 01 98.2%
  • Guggenheim Partners 01 97.7%
  • Morgan Stanley 07 97.1%

Overall Employee Satisfaction

June 2026 Investment Banking

  • Moelis & Company No 99.4%
  • Morgan Stanley 02 98.8%
  • Evercore 01 98.2%
  • BMO Capital Markets 12 97.6%
  • Banco Santander 01 97.1%

Professional Growth Opportunities

June 2026 Investment Banking

  • Evercore 01 99.4%
  • Moelis & Company 01 98.8%
  • Morgan Stanley 05 98.2%
  • JPMorgan No 97.7%
  • BMO Capital Markets 12 97.1%

Total Avg Compensation

June 2026 Investment Banking

  • Vice President (14) $434
  • Associates (44) $258
  • 3rd+ Year Analyst (8) $210
  • 2nd Year Analyst (22) $179
  • Intern/Summer Associate (13) $156
  • 1st Year Analyst (78) $151
  • Intern/Summer Analyst (72) $101
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