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Interested in this as well. Are there any firms that are known to take a decent amount of analysts lateraling from their summer analyst position? Do they just to keep you focused on the same industry group?

 

EBs will take (proportionally) more FT candidates than BBs, also EBs tend to have more open recruiting while BBs will fill spots with people they already "know" (from previous applicants, from banker recommendations). This is more of a recent development as BBs have started to fill mostly from their summer classes, with a few even having to cut summers due to SA overhiring.

 
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Banks have gotten back to old habits of over-hiring. Know that my bank gave out summer internships with the intention of only retaining 75%. Anecdotally, also noticed that a lot more students I knew had not received return offers than in years past and found the full-time recruiting market for BB/EB's to be incredibly thin (and the few spots that existed filled up almost immediately).

Most banks will try to get you to accept return offers with a few weeks, but target school OCR systems generally protect students with another month or two of runway. You'll get pressured throughout, though, so that's simultaneously annoying and flattering.

 

There's a lot of variance between banks and schools. Schools with OCR will have later deadlines sometimes, at some banks as Binders said. Generally you get around a month to two months to accept. Banks do like it when you accept earlier rather than later as they know they have you locked down and it shows you really want to go back. Honestly they give you more than enough time to consider other offers as these days FT recruiting is done a few weeks after you learn about your return offer.

 

Most BBs listen to the school's career services. I'd argue that a top rank at a LEH Telecom Group is better than a bottom rank at GS. The political capital is huge.

Also, after working for a summer you realize that fit is more important than you first thought. The argument for switching to GS from MS i think is stupid - at some point you have to realize the benefit (if any) is purely marginal.

 

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