Barclays Capital IBD vs Greenhill
How would you guys weigh full-time analyst opportunities with Barcap and GHL?
I'm a college senior considering full-time options, spent the summer as an IBD SA with Barcap (have a FT offer). I've read through the general BB vs. boutique threads, but I'm curious whether you guys have any opinions about Barcap and GHL specifically. Any thoughts on differences in terms of rep, PE/business school exit ops, how they'll be doing in a couple years, or anything else would all be helpful. Thanks.
What group at Barclays?
It's a generalist offer for Barcap IBD, not group-specific.
If you want to stay in finance, GHL is a clear winner. If you want to jump to a corp fin job after two years, go with Barclays because it has more main-stream recognition. GHL has better placement into both the buy-side and business school. The vast majority of the associates and up are from top schools (Harvard, Wharton, Stanford).
I'm in agreement with above. Greenhill will probably get you more deal experience, but the exit opps will probably limited to PE/HF. Barclays will get you more points if you want to go to a Fortune500 or if you want to work PE/HF somewhere else in the world. I really doubt it will have any effect on B-School though.
I would put barclays 4th in the BB rankings, but to me it just doesn't seem to have an established M&A side. They are great on the debt side, so if you want to do capital markets that would be the place to be, along with JPM and DB.
Thanks for the comments, they've been very helpful.
Do you guys know if there would be a large difference in the bonuses paid at Barcap vs GHL? What about differences in bonuses between top BBs and top boutiques in general? Haven't been able to find many previous threads on this topic...
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