The scenario is : -Late 20s / Early 30s -Non target grad -Working experience on supply chain Too late to move ? My initial thought is yes why bother with an experienced professional if you can have a young fella early 20s with almost same technical knowledge and skills?

^^^ The guy above isn't considering the fact that banks traditionally ONLY look for candidates in the MBA pool or the undergrad pool. Yeah, you COULD network your way in, but you could also try to recruit from a PhD program - both will give you similar results. Those results being that you won't get in unless you get extremely lucky and someone takes a shot on you. OP if you have a rolodex of close friends who are MDs/group heads at banks that will be willing to risk their reputation (at their bank) to give you a shot then yeah, try to network in - otherwise, go get an MBA.

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Many people on this forum will tell you to get MBA to become a more traditional candidate. My take on this is if you can't network you way in, you probably can't make it in this industry.

Nothing wrong with a 30-year-old analyst, just get fast promoted to aso and spend three years there before VP if you have the tenacity.

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