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It’s going to be Roths NY hands down (see the other posts about culture/WLB). What’s more subjective is how that positions you in the long run.
Not an EB
why is your entire recent comment history talking only about Roth not being an EB... who from that bank stole your girl lmfaoo
All my friends at PWP seem to love it there
PWP and PJT
PWP and Centerview come to mind for great cultures.
My friends at PWP and CVP really seem to enjoy working there. PJT and Rothschild generally have good cultures but have heard that when it's crunch time culture degrades. Evercore is heavily group-dependent. Moelis is still sweaty, albeit a bit less sweaty than a few years ago.
Unironically Moelis. Still very weirdly has a reputation of insane sweatiness (and some groups like M&A and Life Sciences are still very much “old Moelis” in this way) but overall the culture has improved a ton to the point where you have A2As and A2VPs reflecting on how things have changed so much since those bad old days (not always in a good way though as sometimes there’s a tone of “you kids have it too easy now” but I’ve never felt that had a large negative effect).
Overall though folks that I’ve worked with at least are super super reasonable vs my other peers in banking. Respectful of your time and friendly has been my experience
re: exit opps at all of these places from what I’ve seen everyone has a fair shake. It really just depends on the candidate and their willingness to be prepared and potentially conduct outreach on his/her own outside of the HH (coming from a non-target for example). Think the exits are far less related to the bank/group once you’re at this level than the standard assumption. You control your exit opp far more than you might be led to think on this forum
HL - the previously unknown EB
ROTHSCHILD IS NOT A EB IN US
Best for heart failure at 23 is Moelis.
I work at Rothschild in the US so can chime in. Great pay, good hours, (mostly) chill people. Pay will probably get better once they go private. They also don’t really lay off in line with other independents. Mostly MM deals outside RX. WFH Fri/Sat/Sun and weekday evenings. Friday night to Sunday morning protected time (generally respected). Analysts can generally take undisturbed PTO. Expanding significantly. Aims to double size in North America by 2027/8. New office in Miami focusing on C&R. Chicago is an exception to the culture and is quite sweaty.
Exits will be better at places like Moelis/Laz/Evercore/etc… especially if you want MF. Come here for the culture, not the exits. It’s fine if you want MM exits. Don’t come here expecting to be highly competitive for BX/KKR/Apollo/etc…
Biggest schools are UT Austin, NYU, UW Madison, Penn, Duke (not totally sure). For those of you who care, Rothschild isn’t very diverse in the US. Almost no senior women and barely any URMs at any level, though they just started a Black Leaders Program (cohort is quite small though).
They generally promote A2A and don’t have a ton of MBA associates too as the mostly hire at the undergrad level. That might be changing though. I’m not really in the loop on recruiting.
Offices in North America are:
New York, Chicago (Consumer/Industrials), Los Angeles (Tech/Consumer), Palo Alto (no juniors I think), Boston (Sponsors), Miami (C&R), and Toronto (Mining). They had a Washington DC office for mining but closed it recently.
As I said, Chicago is sweaty. New York is chill. Idk about the other offices. The Chicago head is moving to be the Miami head FWIW.