COMPREHENSIVE PRESTIGE TIER LIST

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Undergrad Name:
Tier 1: Harvard, Princeton, Wharton, Stanford
Tier 2: Columbia, Duke, MIT, UPenn, Yale
Tier 3: Brown, Dartmouth, Cornell

IBD:
Tier 1: Centerview, PJT, Qatalyst
Tier 2: Moelis, Lazard, Evercore
Tier 3: Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley

Other Finance:
Tier 1: Apollo, KKR, Blackstone
Tier 2: Bain, Carlyle, Silver Lake

Bottom Tier: MBB
Trash Tier: Big 4/Corp Dev

SWE:
Tier 1: HRT, Five Rings, Plaid, Nuro, Figma, Brex, Databricks
Tier 2: Google, IMC Trading, Jane Street, Netflix, Facebook, Scale AI
Tier 3: Optiver, Citadel, Roblox, Twitter, ByteDance

Other Achievements:
Tier 1: Summa cum laude at HYPSM, Putnam Top 25
Tier 2: 4x AIME Qualifier, USACO Platinum
Tier 3: Leetcode 1000+ solved, 1600 SAT, 800 GMAT, 180 LSAT

22 Comments
 

Lol what mouthbreather takes a job at Plaid or Figma over Jane Street

 

Idk about swe/other finance but ibd and college rankings are pretty accurate. I’d personally put duke on the same tier as Dartmouth, and swap pjt and evercore unless if its pjt rx.

 

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