Well I am applying to an analyst position at GS Finance Division. But I am relatively applying to other IBD analyst positions at several other firms. My question is if you had an offer to Goldman's M/O over any other internship would you take it eve if you NEVER had any investment banking experience? I am currently a junior and I want to be a full time analyst for when I graduate. I feel like I would not have any time afterwards. My only hope is to get an IB analyst position this summer. Any thoughts. Thanks guys!
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What is your question, specifically? Are you saying would you take GS MO over any other internship including other investment banking internships? If so, I personally wouldn't. If you want to work in IB, take an IB internship if you get a relatively reputable one. I think it'd be easier to move to GS IBD (if that's what you're implying you'd try if you work in GS MO) from another IB internship rather than GS MO. Definitely easier to move to another IB in general (again, as long as its reputable).
What is your question, specifically? Are you saying would you take GS MO over any other internship including other investment banking internships? If so, I personally wouldn't. If you want to work in IB, take an IB internship if you get a relatively reputable one. I think it'd be easier to move to GS IBD (if that's what you're implying you'd try if you work in GS MO) from another IB internship rather than GS MO. Definitely easier to move to another IB in general (again, as long as its reputable).
Yes I meant GS MO. Sorry bout that. Thank You!
No I meant did you mean GS MO over ANY other internship, including any other IB internship? Because in that scenario, take IB if that's what you want to end up in FT.
What does anyone else think? I might have to delete this thread and create it again.
Give it time man, the thread has only been around for under an hour...
If I am understanding you correctly-- you'd take a MO/BO role at the Gold Sack over an IBD position at any other bank? ..give me a second, trying to wrap my head around this
What in the hell are you thinking? No no no no no. Goldman Sachs isn't the only reputable IB out there (Gasp!)
"My only hope is to get an IB analyst position this summer. " -> so take one of the "lesser" BB's.
That's ridiculous LOL.
Take an investment banking internship if you want to end up doing investment banking...
Not really sure what you're asking, but if this post is in any way reflective of your writing ability, you should take any full time job over an internship. Consider yourself lucky that most firms will give you an offer before ever getting a chance to evaluate your writing.
Take IBD at another bank. You can always lateral to GS IBD.
I hate to be harsh, and I hate to base things off of one data point, but I am not sure you have the communication skills to be a great banker.
That's OK. I don't have the communication skills to be a great banker. And as a desk strat, the people whom I respected most in industry were risk managers. On top of that, GS and JPM risk managers carry an incredible degree of clout and respect within their respective firms that isn't seen elsewhere on the street- GS treats their risk managers with about the same deference they treat their traders. And a number of smart risk guys move on to help run systematic strategies and top-level portfolio allocation at hedge funds.
If risk is what you want to do; if it's where you feel most comfortable, take the offer.
If IBD is what you want to do, you may need to get a little bit better at written communication in English, but I think you can eventually pull that off, too.
I know this isn't what you want to hear right now, but if IBD is turning you down in a few places, that may be for the best for you, right now.
IBD experience at any shop is good whether it be a no name shop or a MM bank. That experience can be leveraged for f/t IBD recruiting.
Disagree here. I'd take the Goldman name over a true no-name IB gig.
When I was recruiting for IBD at my target ( Yale, Duke, Dartmouth, Princeton, Stanford, Brown, Cornell) many foreign students did IB gigs at no name shops as a sophomore during the year. They later leveraged that to a MM/BB IBD internship during the summer of sophomore year.
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