BAML putting all junior bankers into a "pool"?

Anyone at BAML know whats going on here? At MS, they have pools, but its only for the first year. And it turns into hardcore politicking as ppl jockey to figure out what group they end up in. This is only going to worsen that to the infinite degree, IMHO. And what is a "junior banker"? Analysts? Associates? VPs?

I'm also very interested to hear what more senior bankers think about this... sounds like a big deal.

Hard to say if that is speculation or concrete. One must remember that financial journalists are nothing more than regular journalists who call people who know about finance.

Either way it doesn't seem too significant from a firm perspective. At the analyst level it seems like a nice way to get exposure.

it does make a lot of sense to have a pool at Analyst and junior Assoc level, but it should also come along with leaning towards a specialisation as people become senior Assocs and VPs and run parts of transactions more independently.
For the firm, it means that they get the max capacity utilisation from their resources, while for the employees it means greater exposure esp. at the early stages of the career when breadth of experience is much more useful than depth of experience.

However, a lot of banks try the pooling when times are bad, and then move to specialised teams when times become better. In any case, there is de facto specialisation because MDs or Ds generally have their own bItches who they prefer to give work to.

just sounds like if this is implemented the BAML analyst lives are just going to become that much more unpredictable and miserable