Decision Help! Evercore vs. Barclays IB vs. MS GCM vs. BofA

go with evercore

Evercore. Is the Barclays offer group specific?

Barclays is a general offer.
Could you guys elaborate a little more on why Evercore, especially why that over MS?

Could you guys elaborate a little more on why Evercore, especially why that over MS?

Do some searches on boutiques like evercore, greenhill, etc. vs BB.

Basically, elite boutiques like evercore have a very strong reputation (better than barclays, cs, citi, etc.) so unless you're in a top group like MS M&A, I'd say definitely go with the elite boutique. Definitely better exit ops than your other choices

Fundamentally the offer at MS (capital markets) is completely different to the IBD offers at Barclays and Evercore (not clear what BofA is, but as you said, it's your least preferred).

Assuming you want IBD/m&a, then Evercore is likely your best bet as it's not a universal bank and is not going to be asked by clients to put it's balance sheet to work (which is what you'll see a lot of at Barcap, BofA, CS, etc, etc). Instead, at Evercore you're going to be working on advisory engagements, dealing with c-level executives and corporate development heads (no assistant treasurers worrying about 5 bps interest rate moves affecting the pricing on their revolvers). On the flip side, the benefit of working at a universal bank is that you'll likely get the chance to have a deeper understanding of capital markets interplay with M&A and leveraged finance, but you can always do that later in your career if that's floating your boat.

Good luck with whichever you choose. They're all great opportunities.

good looks bro good luck

Barclays if you want to move to corporate/F500, more product exposure and strong brand

What surprises me is that you got an offer to Evercore and you don't know enough about the company to realize this is a slam dunk easy question.

Might have to say Evercore on this one - but its not an easy culture - sweatshop even for banking standards...

definitely EVR

I would say Evercore or Barclays.

I pretty much narrowed it down to evercore and ms (wold probably work in levfin group) - why does no one seem to be a fan of MS GCM?

cause its ECM, DCM work not really that great for exit ops and modeling exposure. Levfin is the only group in GCM that would be interesting in my opinion. I would still join Evercore.

Also, remember that if you take the Barclays generalist offer, you could still end up in capital markets. MS has a separate application process for IBD and GCM (as far as I know, IBD=coverage groups and GCM=product groups) but Barclays does not, it's all under IBD.

If you got LevFin at MS, that would be a consideration. Other than that, it's all product group rather than industry, so you'd be better off with Evercore if you were looking for solid exit opps.

i know someone in the same situation (Evercore, Barcap, MS, etc.)...

I don't think yall should assume everyone wants IBD/M&A, this person I know actually prefers capital markets, hence the difficult choice. I've been telling her Evercore ftw the whole time though, too...

Definitely Barcap. MS is falling apart.

EVR. All. Day. Long.

What kind of sh*** is EVR? I never heard of that. MS > BAML>Barcap> Evr. Always go bluechip for the first 10 year in your career. Barcap is falling apart, their M&A and Equities is nowhere and won't get anywhere. They have achieved nothing in the past 3 years unlike BAML/Citi/UBS who are very strongly bouncing back. MS Levfin in GCM... this group is just pricing, some high yield bond roadshows. Don't take it, there is no modelling done there. Ask for BAML Levfin in that case or MS M&A as is sugggested.