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I worked at GS and it's easily done internally... you lose a year but with enough persistence and the fact you've already gotten an IBD offer, you can easily network your way in. Most on this forum will probably laugh at this answer, but if you really want the GS brand it's a decent backdoor instead of leaving some of the process to chance taking the front door.

 

I really hope you're trolling as you there's no remote defense for GS compliance over Jefferies IB. I feel very confident saying that even as a college student. There seems to be some very dumb brand allegiance on this forum. Also, it's way fucking easier to go to GS IB from Jefferies IB than from GS compliance in pretty much any context.

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This is not true at all. I've spoken with numerous people at GS and they've told me internal lateraling is frowned upon, especially if you're trying to go from back office to front office. It's so frowned upon, that you might end up getting a bad PE and stern scolding from your manager, which my result in you getting canned.

You can corroborate what I'm saying by googling it, and checking it out on glassdoor

Jefferies has a great reputation, and if you don't like it after a year, you should have no problem at all at switching banks. The role that you're doing is more important than the name of the firm. You can be a janitor at Goldman Sachs, doesn't mean any other firm will hire you as an IB analyst.

 

DickFuld had a great comment about a similar situation in this post: https://www.wallstreetoasis.com/forums/jefferies-ib-vs-stifel-ib-vs-gol…

"Your career center wants you to take the Goldman offer because they can publish it as a firm that employs students of your school. They don't have to publish what role their students had at Goldman. It's a selfish stance on their part.

Take an actual IB offer, not ops."

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Yea convinced he's either troll or actually delusional (always goes on some tangent about he's just waiting for a million dollar contract with citadel to clear lmao) also was convinced that most SA would lose their jobs and that FT conversions were "100% no possibility" and then went on some rant about at-will employment in the US idek lmao

 

If our internships weren't some sort of priority then they would have already cancelled but banks are now scrambling and doing their best to ensure at least a virtual internship. You've been wrong so many times at this point that I don't even know why you feel the need to keep talking. Good luck with your "KKR deal" cause honestly if you actually work at Citadel and are consistently this wrong you're actually gonna need it.

 

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