MM IB --> NYC IB?

Am currently a junior at a semi-target. Finally got an MM IB offer, but it's located in a (compared to NYC) not-so-great city (e.g., Denver, Tampa, Raleigh, Jacksonville, Nashville, Phoenix, etc.). I'm from the NYC area, so I would definitely want to return to NYC for full-time. How feasible would it be to recruit for NYC full-time after/during my junior summer internship in the South? I'm obviously going to take the MM offer b/c I'd rather have something than nothing (have a FoF AM offer in NYC, but I didn't like AM when I interned in it), but I want to know what the roadmap is from here

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Not all those cities are the same. If its Denver, Raleigh or hell maybe even Nashville, might be a cool place to do your analyst stint in. Could always lateral to NYC at the associate level, if you want to do IBD long term.

 

Went through something similar - started in IB after school in a tier 3 market and wanted to move back to NY area where I’m from.

Was able to get lateral analyst interviews fairly easily by cold applying once I had 6 months of experience. Ended up getting an offer at an EB and moved back to NY a few weeks later.

Definitely possible to move back, just a question of how much you like/dislike the MM geo and what your goals are. Eg, if you want NY MM PE and your group is able to place, may be better off just sticking out the analyst stint in the geo and trying to get a NY PE offer.

 
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