usually the f500 company would not know in depth in terms of which banks are the most competitive or top league tables lol they just know that GS is "king" in terms of prestige and probably followed by MS and JPM...just my opinion of how people that arent in finance at ALL would rank the top 3 investment banks so with that logic: A, D, C and then B (just because almost noone outside of finance has any idea what Moelis is, even though people in banking/buy-side respect it very much, F500 wouldnt have any idea what Moelis is UNLESS they have used them before for some sort of advisory service)

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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

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AnalystMonkey2769

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AnalystMonkey2769you 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

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I don't throw darts at a board. I bet on sure things. Read Sun-tzu, The Art of War. Every battle is won before it is ever fought- GG

BankorBust

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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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