Hilarious Predicament

Let me try to keep this short:

Pretty much back in April I received 2 offers for SA 2023, one for a well know MM IB, the second for a BB Corporate banking positions.

I originally accepted the IB role and declined the Corporate banking role.

I was interning this summer at the same BB and really enjoyed the culture or the first and reached out to the recruiter about possibly having the position back.

Fast forward to the end of my internship I received the Corporate banking offer again and signed.

After going back and fourth for quite a while I realized I worked too hard for my IB internship (non target kid) to just throw it away without trying. (I really enjoyed my chill internship and was hearing horror stories from my buddies).

Now that I am in a horrible situation that I ultimately created for myself due to indecisiveness what is the best way to damage control this whole thing?

I figured my options were:

A. Send an email to the BB recruiting team and say I am pulling out (for a second time), which prob would lead to being blacklisted (idrc there are other banks out there)

B. Decline my IB offer and try to lateral internally to IB at the BB

C. No idea (open for recommendations)

Anyone have any thoughts or advice on this one lol?

Cheers.

3 Comments
 

Thanks for the advice.

I think it has good internal mobility ( I internally moved from Commercial banking to CIB) and the recruiter I’ve been in close contact with runs their IB and CB intern and full time programs.

Only con is it’s a lower tier IB but tbh idc about that, not a bad way to make 30-40k more than corporate banking for slightly more work

 

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