Do actual investment bankers despise IB TikTokers as much as I think they do?
I’ve been falling down the IB TikTok rabbit hole, and the content is painful. It’s either influencers romanticizing an 85-hour work week with "aesthetic" morning routines, or people who burnt out in 3 months now selling courses on how to break into the industry.For those currently on the desk: What is the actual perception of these finfluencers? Do they get absolutely destroyed by their former peers, or does no one care? What would happen if someone in your bullpen got caught filming a "day in the life" video?
One of our SMDs actually talked about this today lol. Said if one of us pulled that shit we’d have to start looking for a new bank lololol.
yea seems like the people making the vids quit banking before they even got to analyst 2. What’s your thoughts on the courses like Wall Street mastermind and WSO coaching wich charge a premium but offer assurance that u will get in? Scam? Legit? Unnecessary?
Wall Street mastermind the slimiest people ever
Facts - it's always the person who did IB like 6 months full-time & closed 0 deals that spams the "things I had to deal with working in IB", etc, videos.
You never see someone who actually had a meaningful / material experience posting stuff besides the Your Finance Bro dude who's opinions can be semi-validated by him doing the full 2+2.
Yes
Worked with one of these morons… she was legit the worst analyst in the class and her TikTok’s were so dumb
is she the NYC boutique girl i keep seeing on tiktok
Initially sure I was like"oh they're misrepresenting the industry!" or whatever
And now I could not give a flying fuck. They're getting their bag. I'm getting mine. Who cares.
I mean the more you interact with their content, and that includes hating on it, the more you see it. I don't use tiktok/IG that much but that's not the content I'm seeing really.
Idk, working at BofA, watching your buddies get drilled until 3 a.m., and then opening TikTok on the way home only to see some MBA Becky posting her aesthetic lifestyle routine and “working from home after 9 p.m.” would make me really mad, ngl.
Yea, these people are bad colleagues to work with for starters. "Sorry, can't turn comments right now I need my beauty-sleep to look good on TikTok"
Who gives a fuck, it’s a job lol.
Idc if people wanna make videos about it and if you care you probably scored below a 1500 on your SAT.
U seem like a nice guy to grab a beer with lol.
U seem like a gimp
Terrible to work with. Narcissist, high ego, can’t perform for shit. Gives terrible advice to prospects and somehow thinks she's a role model. Couldn’t break into Hollywood so now you gotta sit here and put up with this shit.
I've seen some of these on my X feed. My take is that if you're gonna build a public persona around your profession, you better be a goddamn machine at it. Yet with these creators somehow it’s always the opposite, they're bottom bucket or not even in IB.
I’m also convinced that people watching these reels suffer from some form of cognitive impairment. What exactly are you learning from "a day in IB with me" that you wouldn’t see in literally any corporate job? A Sweetgreen bowl? An elevator? A laptop? Back-to-back meetings?
You have access to one of the best training grounds in business and finance, surrounded by some of the most connected people in the industry, and this is what you choose to make out of it?
Dimon was complaining about analysts signing PE offers while still in their banking stint, yet apparently this is fine? At least the analyst recruiting for PE clearly gives a fuck about the industry and is trying to advance within it, meanwhile someone turning their banking seat into content for a future influencer career gets a pass. There have to be some genuinely braindead people running junior recruitment and oversight at these banks.
Yeah I just don’t get why some of these people go into banking and then post about how brutal the hours are and how bad the life is. It took me 20 minutes of research to know that it’s a high stress high tempo environment. People go through a rigorous recruiting and networking process and still don’t know what to expect. It’s like going to an ice cream store, buying ice cream, and then complaining about how they didn’t give u cake.
Some are rlly fkn good. Defiant Gatekeeper, Rareliquids, the British indian dude, Bryan Jun, Nate O'brien (albeit he never did IB). Some just kind of come off as corny like the IB larper's who cosplay finance bros and u sit there knowing their only finance experience is like Forage IB virtual internships. The only finfluencer that pisses me off is Avni Barman but I can't tell if she's low IQ or rage bait.
I do respect these content creators, former bankers with experience and value to share.
Same, was talking more about the Day In My Life grifters and the ones posting about how brutal banking hours are while making a profits off it. Idk I’m not in IB yet but it’s like wtf do u expect one google search and u will know IB hours are brutal. Am I way off on this take?
Rareliquid needs to stop. He’s been posting ”How to break into IB” content like he just quit… it’s been 10 YEARS. Please for the love of god the cow is completely milked already
Obviously not. If people pay, he will keep going.
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Despite isn't the right word and candidly I see a lot more of the "day in the life of an Investment Banking Analyst" stuff that actually shows a life far different than mine (i.e. going to dinner with friends on a Tuesday, taking a 1hr walking break, going home at 9pm, etc.).
Then I just do a Linkedin search and realize they work at some dog s#*t bank in a made up group (think BNP / CIBC / SMBC / BofA EGRC) and im like "ah, checks out"
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