IB First year analyst recruiting and chances ?

I’m a rising junior. Not finance and I decided pretty late that I wanted to do finance. Nevertheless, I landed an internship at a lower tier BB. However, I’m targeting top PE (working there this summer and loving it) and the bank isn’t the best feeder for that. If I lock in properly I feel like I would be able to land top BB/EB roles but I’m not sure how full time recruiting works post summer internship. Is it worth pursuing this? Id love to hear people with similar experiences

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What does top PE mean? If you mean MF's: lateral after a year. Going for FT recruiting in this environment isn't worth it. I am at a mid-tier BB, and our intern return offer discussions are going to be tense since we have been communicated that there are fewer full spots; we are not hiring for FTs. I think a lot of banks are similar boat. If going for UMM/MM: just stick to your current place, you will be fine. Have a few friends and they get a bunch of MM/UMM PE stuff, and know a few second years from there (same year as me) going to UMM firms. I didn't go to HYP, but an Ivy: so maybe you'd do even better in recruiting than the school friends I know there.

 

I think it's way better than trying to recruit FT for the maybe 3-4 spots at significantly better firms that would be available. The market right now is terrible, so I would just focus on getting a return. It's also going to be more spots overall that open up as firms either look to expand (due to understaffing) or simply people leave analyst programs early (there are quite a few every year at each top bank). Just my 2 cents: I'm at a mid-tier BB and was able to get a UMM offer of my choosing, but if you're dead-set on MF PE, then I would go for any of the various top BB/EBs to be competitive. 

I am not going to bore you on the MF vs. not MF discussion as it has been heavily discussed: but think consensus on this server is MF's are the best 2-year programs and the best seat for longer-term PE career is some type of growing PE firm (consensus seems to be growing UMM>MF for longer-term PE careers).

 

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