2026 Investment Banking Return Offer Climate
Seems like it is a tough year with return offer rates lower than historically. Starting a thread here for people to comment what they know.
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Houston return rate is very high. Across banks it seems to be 95%
well everything is bigger in Texas as you know. Especially the women.
Didn't know Charles Barkley was on wso
One West Coast datapoint- BofA Palo Alto (TMT) is only extending ~60% ROs this year.
Proof? How many analysts? They reason is bc low qual analysts or bc AI factor
6 ROs / 10 SAs
Bofa internship does not end until this week
Absolute slaughterhouse at WF today. High bar for RO I imagine.
Can attest. Ff super low at 50%. Lev fin I think they cut 4 across clt and ny.
WF is paradise because they don’t let everyone in. It’s like soho house or raya - once they started letting in lames they went to shit.
Very high bar for returns, only the top few in each group got offers
Honestly I wouldn’t even go as far in saying this. Some top interns who showed tremendous growth and were hard workers got cut. They took average,stagnant interns over top interns who made a mistake or two. It’s ridiculous. They were just finding reasons to cut interns.
Can confirm. I hate being in this situation rn, thought everything was going well but this came out of left field
50% RO across all groups in CLT and can confirm that a single mistake in Week 1 can ding you.
Del
Great day to be at an EB
Baird Blair and Lincoln all came out around 50%
Guggenheim had 95% rate
My group, BB coverage, went 100% return offer
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