I have a friend who chose to go his/her summer at Goldman IB in a location other than NYC ( think SF, Chicago, Salt Lake City, Dallas) but goes to an east coast target school. He/She really wants to move to NYC cause all his/her friends from college are there. How hard would it be for him/her to move to NYC? And would it be harder to lateral within Goldman or to switch banks entirely to be in NYC?
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Do not ask or tell GS. It will be easy enough to land something at a different bank given school + coming from GS (need return offer though). Start networking around week 3/4.
GS is uniquely shitty about internal mobility, especially between SA and FT. It used to be if you asked at all you were eliminated from a return offer in your SA group, not sure if that is still the case. Even people who are years into their career have trouble moving, just a very political/anti-movement firm. I'd hold the SA offer and wait until the last possible moment to accept it, try to land something else in the meantime. If not, lateral around 1 year.
Also, those locations are not all equal. GS SLC will be pretty impossible to lateral out of for FT, and Houston is also a bit tough to get out of because of the coverage industry there. The other locations shouldn't be a problem.
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