Fast anyone quit banking?

...then maybe you should quit if you feel like you're in hell.

A friend of mine did two summers at DB. Got a full time return offer. This is when they were restructuring. It was horrible and she hated it. She did their analyst training in London and quit in exactly a month lol. Works at a top consulting company now and seems much happier :) 

If you want to move to an IB “exit opp” and not restart in a different role (like switching to consulting as an analyst, etc), it’s probably not feasible until the one year mark. However, I have seen numerous opportunities come up to leave after a year. 

3 weeks

One summer EB --> Megafund 

Fastest I’ve seen is 4 months in 2 separate cases. 1 analyst left to a buy-side analyst role, and the other was fired.

They lateraled and the expectation was that they’d be more prepared than they were. Dude wasn’t bad, but the group that hired him had some really shitty MDs and they weren’t willing to work through it.

When I was at MM, we hired an analyst from Big4 consulting. He legit quit 9 days after hitting the desk and went back to his old firm. Allegedly a week later, he asked an MD if he could come back and "try again" but our MD shot that down right quick.

Heard about someone at AGC Partners quitting like 1 week after starting a few years back

.................