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then on the opposite end, analysts will be like "my bank started a famine, killed my family and runs red lights but I won't name them" while posting on anon
yeah that shits dumb. name and shame the company for their shitty practices
GS?
So what bank are you at?
MS.
What’s even worse is when 5 people in a row from the same bank make cryptic and uninformative comments, god knows for what reason.
”At Guggencore and let’s just say bonuses were disappointing”
”Also at Guggencore and the whole analyst class is looking to leave after those bonuses, to say the least”
“Yeah AN3 at Lazardcore here and expected at least triple what I got”
Meanwhile other normal people are like “An1 - Harris Williams - Mid - $110k base and $110k bonus”
We’re you at a lifestyle group at Guggencore?
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I work for the only EBBB (elite bulge bracket boutique).
So Greenhill/Mizuho?
You don’t even work yet, you have little understanding of being doxxed. Go make more prestige lists intern.
there are thousands of people at these jobs. if you get doxxed you either gave way too much information (way more than what company your at), + doxxing is still extremely difficult
Thousands of jobs? If you work at Qatalyst there's 60 people, you work at Evercore M&A? 60 people. You work in restructuring at an EB? That's like 150 people across analyst-MD including every EB.
Go ahead and tell us what group and Firm you're interning, be the change you want to see.
You’ll learn once you start that the industry is a lot smaller than you think.
You’re not important enough to dox big man
I’m at a top EB
Say no more
Congrats for your role at Tobin & Co
Yugoslavia is a non-target country
140k base btw
Fifth Third here
I know an MD there. Total asshole. Hope you don’t work with him.
I’m sure I do, she’d some color
Have to respect people’s right to privacy on the internet, especially someone like me who works at a great shop but in a smaller group that brutally hazes SAs by making them shove pinecones in their anus (think CVP, LAZ, Moelis, PJT, Greenhill, EVR, Harris Williams, WLBR, Houlihan, PWP).
I work for a solid bank (think GS, JPM, SVB)
I (Work/Play/Labor) in (Investment Banking/Medicine/Law) and (earn/acquire/make) something in the realm of (think $100K, $150K, $200K) though I do work many units of time (think hours, seconds, minutes) each 24 hour period (think days, solar system, calendars).
I am (think enjoying, liking, appreciating) my (think job, career, position) but I could use a bit of a (think raise, promotion, pat on the back).
If you want to know who (employs / works with / hired) me it's a top (bank, big law firm, etc.) along the likes of (Goldman, Citi, Five Guys)
congrats on Citi
LOL
I work for the most prestigious Financial Institution in Pittsburgh think PNC and.....well, yeah. Pretty much just think PNC that's all we got here lol.
*Incline Equity Partners
Ha, the other one (Riverarch).
Side note, fellow Yinzer? Not many of us.
Heard that Decline Equity Partners was big in Detroit.
I work at a top bank (GS/JPM/53rd)
Congrats on JPM
Management at most of our firms notices when something negative is posted here, especially when the finmemes / twittersphere pick it up.
If you actually want the inside baseball, you gotta let it go that people don't want to be identified for what could be a fireable offense in an at-will employment state like NY.
Exactly, no one is going to dish the good stuff if they can't do it anon. I'm not going to risk burning a reference and pissing off my old employers just so I can post a negative and identifying review about my old bank for a prospect who is wondering.
Pierce & Pierce
Fine, I'll tell you where I'm at. Think GS, Baird, Cowen.
KING Bank 🤴
Nice try, HR.
I work at Northwester Mutual
im good on insurance bro
Hey, selling life insurance to Midwestern retirees is “Wall Street” and “High Finance”, idk what you’re on about.
Congrats on J.P. Morgan
I work at a top EB (think Greenhill, Mizu-oh wait....)
A couple of thoughts -
1) the inside baseball comment is true. No one wants to get bitten in the ass by their employer for saying something.
2) the size of the industry comment is true. Banking is much smaller than you think and people talk. Likewise, Even though, say, JPM has a 275K+ Total Headcount, Only 20K of those 275K+ work in the Corporate & Investment Bank arm. So that's 7.2% of all JPM employees. How many of that 20K work in Front Office roles doing M&A or coverage? Let's call it 500, just for easy math. So 500 employees, globally doing M&A and coverage, means that's 2.5% of the workforce (or 0.18% of the total workforce). Divide that up between country, office location, and specific group and it becomes a lot easier to identify who's talking. And people know each other or know friends of friends. It's the way it works in Finance.
3) Even with anon posting, if someone's bank becomes public knowledge, how many kids trying to break in are going to reach out begging for a coffee chat or to network simply because they are on WSO and see that I work at Bank X they have an interest in? I don't need to be bombarded by all that shit. I'm surprised no one has pointed that one out yet.
"I went to school in Boston..."
I’m at a traditional BB (DB/GS/MS)
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