How many people get top bucket at BB?
What's the average split in a group with ~10 analysts? Are you also compared with lateral hires or just your class? maybe just hasn't been enough time to distinguish candidates, but can't really tell the differences in analysts. Everyone seems solid and no outliers on the plus or minus.
Does the deals that you work on play a role in whether you get top bucket (worked on the biggest deal for the group = top bucket)? Or how many hours someone is putting in? Leading recruiting efforts maybe. Can't really think of a way to really distinguish people, especially the mid to top bucket level.
probs like 2-3 top, 3-5 mid, 1-3 bottom from what I’ve seen
you are correct that the differentiator between mid / top sometimes is just down to luck / likeability / staffings
however, keep in mind that top performers are naturally staffed on the best deals if they have capacity so it’s a bit of a loop
thanks. do you know if you get a sense for where you rank during mid-year reviews? I feel like I'm killing myself right now, but if I'm going to end up being mid bucket anyways might as well take it easier and not care as much.
When I was in BB world, we would stack rank every analyst in a given class across groups (it would take two days of a committee on a room fighting over little scraps of data).
top 10% - top bucket
10-25% - second bucket
25% - 50% - upper mid bucket
50% - 75% - lower mid bucket
75% - 90% - upper bottom bucket
90% - 100% - true bottom bucket
how do you compare analysts across groups and who makes those committee level decisions at that point?
Depends on the firm and revenue generation for the team (product / coverage)
top bucket is more of a BB thing as EVR and other EBs don’t have wide variation in buckets
at BBs the low rev teams don’t even get allocation for a top bucket analyst / AS / VP comp spot (this can be observed in the recent comp threads where somebody says they were top bucket at $50k and others were mid bucket with same number)
picked $50k as a random round number for analysts
top bucket might be an extra $5k to $10k depending on firm (Blair / Baird different for MMs here)
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