any info on top la firms
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you should NOT be picking the firm based on hourly pay...
but yes CS LA does pay hourly from what i hear
any of those would be phenominal for PE, if you want to do MBA or Corp Dev i would stay stick to the cookie cutter BB name. GS then MS then CS
but PE would prob be Moelis then CS then MS then GS LA. nice problem your friend seems to be having haha
pay relates to SA pay just to clarify
Would a f500 company (tech) choose
a) an analyst in the generalist but mainly consumer retail group at Goldman LA b) an analyst at Moelis LA c) an analyst in leveraged finance at CS LA d) an analyst in general corporate finance at MS LA e) every one of these analysts get exactly equal looks
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