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Don’t do it Queen 😭
Girl look up their teams on LinkedIn. Only a handful of seniors are PoC. National is best.
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Why do you want to ruin your career?
Some of these teams haven’t had a PoC VP or above in the past 20+ years
Scotia? Who else?
Scotia has a female VP
Come to toronto
NBC, BMO, and RBC have PoC seniors. Rest I don’t think so
Hometown of Maple MAGA
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I think it's fine as long as your personality isn't being a poc and you can fit in with the WASP culture.
Think you are on to something here. Any tips to fit in better? I have a summer internship soon
Idk man I'm a male poc myself and just fit in fine, probably helps that I'm not a fob and grew up abroad with WASPs so it's just regular interactions for me. I think knowing all the subleties of jokes, knowing when something is implied, etc helps so having actual fluency of the language and having cultural contexts would help.
RBC appears to be first place with TD right behind and Scotia and National close in the race
Interesting
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TD from what it sounds like has the best culture easily a lot of calgary offices have a big face time culture TD does not
How is their deal flow?
Damn he better be appreciative of the big step down.
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Poll is concerning
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Don’t do this to yourself, are you retarded?
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Many closeted racists in Calgary IB
Scotia shit hours and pay
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You’ll be okay as long as your white colleagues don’t perceive you as competition
Career suicide
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RBC’s position in this survey is not factual. We do not discriminate based on race.
For context, RBC Calgary currently has two leaders from minority backgrounds at the VP level or above. By comparison, both BMO and National have two while CIBC, Scotia and TD have none.
What is the reason? Talent pool? Racial biases?
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Don’t do it girl - not worth it and if it doesn’t work you might resent your fiance
Queen, avoid Scotia!
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Racists pos
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Certified racists
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Avoid Scotia
Heard they got some Maple MAGA sleeper agents
Listen.
You're taking a big step down career wise coming to Calgary from NYC. NYC is the world's IB capital, and many would kill to be in your position. If you know that and respect that then continue reading.
If you really love your fiance and he loves you, you need to sit down explain this to him. Not sure what he does for a living, but if he makes the switch to the US, how would it affect his career trajectory? I'll go on a hunch here, and say that he would go further in the USA, regardless of what he does.
Communication is key, in everything. Seriously. In Calgary, IB is mostly relating to energy, is that something you want to specialize in? If you decide to go back, Houston/Dallas would be your best bet.
You're at GS/MS, great BBs, you worked hard, again people would kill for this. I hear to many people complaining about hours, yes, some places are better, some are worse, but suck it up and deal with it. It's a norm in this industry and it pays dividends in more than just income down the line.
Now, culture is key. I've tried breaking into the BBs in Calgary, it's tough. I don't care about diversity, I care about competence and character, but not everyone feels that way, and that's not how the world works sadly. Best of luck, keep us posted. Also "The things we do for love".
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