Went through recruiting and I know a lot of sophomores who also recruited. I’m also from a target. The list above is objectively the general sentiment we all had when recruiting/how exploding offers were leveraged. This list also indirectly parallels the Vault’s 25 ranking.
| +126 | Do people still want to go PE? | 38 | 3h |
| +103 | UBS Tech layoff | 48 | 44m |
| +90 | UBS’s M&A BANKERS ARE DOING TERRIBLY. $200M EXTRA IS BEING CUT | 22 | 56m |
| +40 | How do YOU manage networking requests? | 9 | 2h |
| +37 | Lazard hirevue | 11 | 2d |
| +36 | What Differentiates the Best Analysts as AI Improves? | 9 | 2d |
| +32 | MBB Pay Raises | 17 | 55m |
| +31 | Quitting After First 4 months | 10 | 1d |
| +30 | Cornell Club T10 Rankings (UPDATED 10/2026) | 19 | 2h |
| +30 | Are target prospects getting dumber? | 11 | 23h |
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PJT M&A is way too underrated on this forum. A lot of you guys don’t know what you’re talking about. Excellent pay, culture, fully generalist, and amazing exits. What else can you wish for?
Sorry bro, PJT M&A is second fiddle to everything else.
What’s wrong with PJT M&A? What would you want as an analyst that they don’t deliver?
This is pretty false info, this is very subjective based on your “target” school and alumni. When I was in school we often chose the bottom half over Moelis. Do you work at Moelis and know something else? I’ve also seen many vault ranking and league tables that would not “parallel” with this post.
Have you seen Moelis LA exits? Also I’ve seen you trash Lazard from your post history. Where did you go to school? I’m H, W, P, S.
Yeah, left Lazard for another one of these LOL. I'm sure my experiences vastly differs from sentiments of sophomore recruits. Also, I'm in NYC so I thought that's what this was referring to. In SF/MP Moelis destroys Laz PWP and PJT. But in NYC the M&A dynamic is much different (my bad)
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