New-Grad Buysiders Couldn’t Crack IB Recruitment?

I personally know a few who failed IB recruitment, and got a less-prestigious buyside internship—>grad job as an alternative. Of course, most are using IB as leverage to buyside. Quite funny isn’t it. I find that nowadays students typically use buyside freshman/sophmore internships to land junior yr IB, just to get into buyside in a couple more years.

Question: For people who start buyside roles immediately out of undergrad, how many of you failed IB recruitment.

Genuine question lol. I personally hold the belief that buyside is better than IB for context.

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Canadian globals are an entry for whose uncle is an MD or whose dad plays golf with the MD.

No matter your skillset, without an in, you're not getting in.

 

this is not the case for GS, BofA & MS Toronto just off the top of my head (source is my friends work there with literally zero finance connections lmao). More nepo hires in Big 5 in my experience

 

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