ANL1 / ANL2 - How has / how did starting remotely treat you with respect to developing financial modeling skills?

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I am an introvert so wfh has helped me to an extent that I was able to email people all the time. I was so anxious in the office because of the stupid way the seating was. No space at all.

I would say depends on the associates/vp on your team. I had couple people who were amazing took the time to teach me, hours over the phone going through a model but others not so much.

I try to do the same with first years. But here is the thing: wfh is what you make of it. You can stay in a corner and decide not to be proactive or interact and it will hurt you, or you can reach out to people, get feedback and schedule calls. In general, Covid deal flow helped me become top tier analyst for sure

I can see it going both ways. I think deal flow during COVID (November-forward) has been really intense and obviously there's been a ton of turnover in all ranks in pretty much every bank, so with that environment you almost forcibly get reps (even if against your will). There's almost no other option at that point than to get good.

However I will say that in my first year I benefited a lot from in-person mentorship with a more senior analyst / associate over my shoulder looking over my work and giving pointers, etc. However I've also found that screen-sharing over WebEx, Zoom, etc has been able to replicate a pretty similar environment. You just have to be proactive in looking for mentorship in the WFH environment as opposed to the other way around.

Overall I think it's a plus