MBA summer associates that didn’t go back to banking - why didn’t you go back full time and what do you do now?
Trying to get an understanding to see if people went into their internship and realized it wasn’t for them
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Yeah people do it every year. I had probably 5 people in my class that got sucked into the ib recruiting vortex, went through all the steps, got a summer offer, and then realized it wasn’t for them at all for a variety of reasons. These people all got great jobs outside of ib when they returned for second year. One flipped to tech (FAANG), one went MBB, a couple to F500, and the other to a tech startup
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