COMPREHENSIVE PRESTIGE TIER LIST

Please help me update this list:

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.

 
Controversial

swap MIT and Wharton

swap Evercore and Centerview

remove Silver Lake from Tier 2

swap Figma and Jane Street

swap Facebook and Optiver

add ICPC WF to Tier 2 other

remove AIME

Other than that, pretty accurate- Nice work.

 

Yeah Wharton hands down has the best placement.... MIT places much less in finance 

 

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