2021 Member of the Year Nominations
----- Post your nominations in the comments and next week I will put up a poll. Thanks! -----
----- Post your nominations in the comments and next week I will put up a poll. Thanks! -----
| +394 | Female bankers doing brand deals on TikTok (@emlywang) | 119 | 2h |
| +136 | UBS rolling out Enhanced Clean Desk Policy, bans deal toys | 16 | 1d |
| +76 | Starting FT in a city 3 hours away, dad has progressing Parkinson's. Looking for advice. | 6 | 1d |
| +67 | JULY 2026 CHICAGO BANK RANKINGS | 26 | 10h |
| +64 | Restructuring is paradise (a completely unbiased account) | 6 | 2d |
| +35 | Handling frustration | 5 | 2d |
| +35 | Not Treated Well by Other Interns | 20 | 15m |
| +29 | Taking days off as an intern | 13 | 27m |
| +28 | Thoughts on Intrepid - Houlihan Merger | 10 | 1d |
| +27 | Best books to read as a student/intern | 12 | 3d |
Career Resources
Piggybacking off this with a serious point - I think there needs to be a bit of a revamp on the philosophy of anon-posting. It's wayyyy too prevalent, even in posts that are completely innocuous. I understand the logic - I do it myself. I think a lot of people are scared of this all being traced back to them etc and just anon nearly everything as a rule of thumb. I think the site would be smart to publish some sort of annual/semi-annual report on requests they receive for identities/IP addresses of posters (if zero, great, if not zero, explain general actions taken), etc etc to help users feel secure in posting here. Possibly the addition of an allotment of anonymizations tied to bananas/arbitrary rationing as a general discouragement for anon-posting.
This site is great and has succeeded exactly because you can anon post, but it could also do well to have a greater sense of community afforded by named posting on the majority of very harmless posts.
It would also do well to add a means of deleting comments, particularly without it bumping up the thread (occasionally you see 5 "insert bank reputation 2019" threads zombie-bumped because someone went back and changed all their comments to ".") - side note but just kinda annoying.
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bottombuckethardo, he probably made over 1/3 of WSO's new posts since October.
kellycriterion
2nd famejranc
Layne Staley but I'm biased, he's the only WSO person I've met in real life (open to others though!) and he's a solid bro