MS generalist or Evercore?
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I mean unless you end up in like RE or Infra most groups at MS range from very good to best on the street for exits. Also its more clout outside of a NYU grad party.
10 groups, no fig/cap markets to worry abt, only RE. They're all strong.
Outside of Menlo Park tech, I don’t think it’s accurate to say that MS has a stronger name than Evercore. Most industry groups at Evercore would be a lot stronger.
M&A’s fine if you just want to exit PE, but in general coverage will give you a much more well rounded experience and less time spent on purely administrative stuff (think loading files into a data room, due diligence trackers, NDAs, etc.) Depending on who is running the process at the senior level from a coverage perspective, you may end up spending most of your time doing the bitch work that coverage doesn’t want to do.
evercore will give you plenty of m&a reps without all of the downsides of an M&A group
Gonna get MS'd for this because every time there's a different view of EB > BB on this forum people get mad but I started as a first year at a BB. As a college student I was very gung-ho about EB > BB but didn't get any interviews at EBs because I didn't network (having been on the side of recruiting, I know now that BBs are a lot more random about picking resumes and networking doesn't really change that much compared to networking at EBs).
During my first year of IB, I very quickly changed my view of EB > BB and I eventually lateral'd out of my BB to a top group at GS/MS and I was completely floored by how it was like playing in a completely different league, not just as GS/MS vs the other BBs but also GS/MS vs anyone else. Maybe its because of my group but I know my seniors aren't worried when we bakeoff vs PJT or Evercore and are only concerned about losing to GS/MS.
One thing I will say though is that if your goal is to go to PE, you'll probably get more M&A reps of smaller companies ($1Bn or less) at Evercore but you'll still be equally as strong of an analyst if you're coming from MS. After the first 1-2 deals it doesn't really matter. Also if you're a strong analyst at GS/MS you could end up on one of the mega $50Bn+ deals that 99% chance Evercore won't be on and that deal is gonna pay dividends for the rest of your career.
As someone who came into IB with every intention of going into PE, you don't know what your future holds and what your next steps of your career are. I'm going into a new field soon and I've already seen the GS/MS name paying off. There's a 99% chance you're not gonna be in finance in 5 years so why give up the GS/MS name for a 50% chance of being marginally better (and 25% if you get in a top MS group) at the PE associate role? Evercore and MS will both give you equal opportunities at PE
How big of a gap between JPM and GS/MS. Thought those three were supposed to be too BB
how’s the culture and lifestyle at MS? someone wrote they’re working 9-3am monday thru friday and weekends, wondering if it’s 90-100 hr sweaty weeks.
Evercore
Evercore. Better exits on average, smarter colleagues, more exclusive, harder to get, higher pay, more prestige among finance crowd.
Evercore
MS has better prestige and hours
Evercore pays more
Your pick
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