GS NYC vs. GS SF TMT vs. MS NYC vs. JPM NYC vs. McKinsey

I'd say both GS locations and McKinsey are at the top and are dependent on location and what you want to do afterwards. All else equal MS is worse than GS and JPM is worse than MS, so no reason to choose them over GS.

If you don't have offers from all then it is irrelevant

do u have ANY of these offers? let alone 1st round interviews?

vs. women vs. sex vs. money vs. fame vs. power vs. life vs. death

I do have some offers and am in the process for others. Thank you wso_user for a useful response. If anyone else has some insight, it'd be appreciated.

But for real, I would probably nut-up and push for GS TMT NYC. Regardless of this whole "deal flow is slowing down" argument.

The title of blog is insane. You are clearly really f-ing smart (probably at a top top school with sweet GPA) and have no idea what you want to do. If you didn't have McK in the list, this might make more sense. For GS, it depends on the group. They have the top groups and then some random banking groups you never knew existed, all under the IBD umbrella. MS is always a good choice - can't go wrong in placement. As for JPM ... depends on the sector (e.g. great oil & gas). Top bucket in any of those places opens doors at any megafund. But before I dismiss consultants, which is one of my favorite things to do, a good friend of mine turned down a good GS IBD offer for McK because of the hrs. So keep that in mind when deciding

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wallstreet333If you had offers at these, which would you take (or rank them in order)?

GS IBD would be my pick if I were guaranteed to be placed in one of their normal industry groups but GS also has some groups I would not want to be in like Real Estate or the Public Finance group (dunno the exact name) and a few other really random ones. A friend got a GS IBD offer and they placed him in some weird derivatives group that probably has very few traditional exit opps. GS TMT, FIG, HC and some others would be great though.

I have seen some people from California offices of GS in TMT moving over to megafunds and it's good that you are guaranteed a group. Will end up coming down to where you wanna work though.

MS NY is also great. If you can get them to guarantee M&A there, then you should pick that.

McKinsey is a great option but not as good as the others if you wanna go into PE or a hedge fund, but then again we don't know your goals.

If you can leverage the other offers to get M&A or Sponsors or C&R at JPM, I'd go there over rolling the dice for groups at the other places.

If you can't get any of them to guarantee you a group, I'd go GS NY or GS SF.

Stupid thread- no way OP has any more than 2 of these (I'm betting closer than 0)- half of these places haven't(or barely have) begun summer recruiting yet.

What are these shitty firms? BX or bust bro

McKinsey all day. Go consulting if you want to be a leader of men. Go banking if you want to be a mindless drone.