For summer intern-JH Daribie or Cedar Street Capital?

I got two intern offices from these tow firms. A little bit about my background, Im a junior Econ student from a target school with a 3.4 GPA. But I got in the game late so I have to take these offers, my goal is to use this experience to land an FT from a big firm next year. Here are the pro and cons of these two companies base on my research.

JH darbie pro: slightly bigger than cedar located on wall street so they have more IBD vibe? the training program is more intense boss have a great personality con: a lot of cold calls pretty bad reputation at WSO? I see people called it chop shop I can't find many transactions on Capital IQ. I worry about I spent the whole summer on cold calling and not working on any real deals.

Cedar Street Capital pro: Founders have a legit IB background. They all graduated from Harvard, MIT, and were senior members of Morgan Stanley's M&A team for a long time.
Con: they are small. the uncertainty of Intern training program. They used the words" customized," "flexible" to describe the intern program.

in general, I see the size does not matter. And they all promise that their internship can help me land a legit FT from big firms, like Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs. Is that true?

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