Moving from low-tier BB SA to Top-Tier FT

Hi all,

long-time lurker here. I will be interning at a low-tier BB this summer (DB/UBS/BarCap) and am wondering if anyone who has had any experience lateraling to a high tier BB (GS/JPM) could offer any tips or advice for that process. Is it common at all? How should I be going about the process? Thanks for the help!

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Yeah, if you get a FT offer from UBS its very possible if not fairly easy to "upgrade" to BOA/CS/DB/Wells/Citi etc. Much less likely but still possible if you network well, kill the interviews, and get a bit lucky to land at JPM/MS/GS. Start networking in late June/Early July. The interviews happen in mid-late August and as late as the end of September.

Why on earth if you are at UBS should you go to Wells Fargo?

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