"Firsthand" Internship Ranking

Anyone knows them and can say what this is? Feels like the worst ranking I have ever seen and do not know what assumptions are behind this. Thought I would share since WSO Monkeys love to rank Banks, Cities, Deals and whatever can be ranked in the world of finance. 

1. FT Partners 

2. Evercore 

3. Guggenheim

4. Solomon 

5. Harris WIlliams

6. Lazard

7. Barclays

8. Guggenheim Securities (do not ask me why they separate between Internships)

9. PWP

10. Houlihan Lokey 

(Additionally I like how controversial this list is compared to WSO so wanted to see some comments on this) 

Source: https://firsthand.co/best-internships-rankings-se…

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Think you may have misunderstood the OPs post. OP is not making a shitpost troll tier list, he just highlighting a trash list by a publication. The list is so bad that it could be easily construed as a troll post.

 

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