Do BBs rely on hiring via Network?
Title - currently at an EB, which is mostly network based. Curious about the BB process.
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which firm?
JPM got rid of it but the rest yes networking is helpful
Wait JPM got rid of networking???
Bump
Yeah it’s just doing the hirevue and pymetrics; networking doesn’t hurt though
So they’re gonna go through thousands of hirevues???
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