+230 Exploding Offer Dilemma 298 4y
+25 Roic? 7 11y
+10 Question Regarding Modeling of Stock Options 5 11y
0 Lazard Restructuring Summer Intern Placement 1 11y
0 GS phone interview on Monday with internal recruiter? 1 6y
0 Applying for SA while on off-cycle internship 3 11y
+22 Sophomore internship - boutique IB vs. MM PE 9 11y
0 Negotiating Salary or Signing Bonus as Lateral Associate at Top boutique IB 5 11y
0 SuperDay Drug Test 4 11y
+180 A Clueless Freshman's First Networking Event 23 11y
0 Thinking about changing my major - Input appreciated 6 6y
+11 Financial Services LBO 3 11y
0 Stock Options Table Question -- Please Help 2 11y
+434 Landed Your First Job? EXTREMELY Important Thread: Office Politics 244 9y
+11 Cash From Boss - What Do I Give? 12 6y
0 Applied to Investor Services instead of I-Banking 7 11y
+12 Sending Christmas greetings to networking contacts? 7 9y
0 Passed JPM Online Application Deadline, But Made the OCI Deadline 1 11y
0 Deutsche Bank Drug Test 3 11y
0 Top MA schools for IB aside from Harvard? 5 6y
0 Market rate for SA pay in London? (2015) 4 6y
+14 Superday at TPH or Simmons Co 6 11y
0 Picking brands for your resume 14 11y
+13 Barclays Reputation 23 11y
+4 First Years to $85k.. which banks and which departments though?... 3 11y
0 Is it mandatory to submit online application - SA? 5 11y
0 Top Boutique Summer Analyst Deadlines? 1 11y
0 Delaying PE Recruiting 7 11y
0 Sumitomo Mitsui's 6 month analyst training program 5 6y
0 Any non-target school members receive first-round interviews? 8 11y
+80 Can sleeping with a client get an intern fired? I may have made a mistake. 36 4y
+7 Allen & Company SA Interview 18 10y
+5 How integrated are Summer Analysts? 4 6y
+6 Perella Weinberg Sophomore Internship 2015 28 11y
+6 Knopman Vs STC for series 63 6 10y
0 More advice on landing internships? 2 6y
0 Deleted Threead 2 11y
0 help with choice between summer analyst internship at HK with ML IBD, GS IMD institutional sales or JPM S&T? 10 11y
+31 What about the Average Joe? 7 11y
0 M&I Guide for PE? 1 11y
0 HK Boutique IB SA No Application Updates 1 11y
0 Valuing FinTech Companies 6 11y
0 WSO Weekly Wrap-Up (12/12-12/19) 0 11y
0 Blackstone M&A SA 2015 3 11y
+205 Day in the Life: Hedge Fund Associate - Investment Banking Background 71 6y
0 Why do so many investment bankers go to Corporate Development? 6 11y
0 Show off-cycle internship on Linkedin while applying for SA? 4 11y
+25 Comparing Offers 24 10y
0 JP Morgan Treasury Services SA Superday 19 9y
0 Barclays Generation Next Sophmore Program 6 11y
+38 Dental School or Investment Banking after college? 21 6y
0 Client Referral. 3 11y
0 GS & CS SA interview rejection 8 11y
+30 Metals & Mining Interview Question? 9 11y
+237 An Overview of Technology Media and Telecom (TMT) - Part 1 of 2 44 1y
0 Financial metrics in the car-rental industry? 1 11y
0 AMEX SPG points during IB training 0 11y
0 Help... turn down the job? 3 6y
+7 Lincoln International vs. Baird vs. Citi vs. William Blair - All in Chicago. What to do? 9 6y
0 What Investment Banks are Still Recruiting? 1 11y
+20 Anyone Know Woodbridge International 13 1y
+10 Acquisition - Corporate Level v Asset Level 7 11y
0 Morgan Stanley IBD Houston, TX Summer Analyst Timeline 3 6y
0 Rothschild vs Barclays (London) 23 6y
+21 San Francisco Summer Housing 76 6y
0 Accelerated Barclays NYC IBD SA (Anyone hear back yet?) 11 6y
+26 LSE Alternative Investments Conference - worth it? 60 9y
+15 GS vs MS vs Citi vs BofA vs Barclays 18 11y
+19 Morgan Stanley Global Capital Markets 1st Round Interview 40 7y
0 What do you want that you can't buy? 8 11y
0 Bonuses mid-sized investment banks London 1 6y
0 sdfasdfa 3 11y
0 All-In Compensation and Taxes for First-Year Analyst 9 11y
+21 Working in IBD, living alone or with a roommate? 14 6y
0 Barclays IBD Houston, TX Summer Analyst Class 2015 2 6y
0 SA vs FT Dilemma 9 11y
+9 asdfasdfa 7 11y
0 CS Superday 12/12 41 11y
0 RBS Global Transaction Services AC this week 1 6y
+2 What To Do When You Could Not Understand Your Interviewer's Name on the Phone 4 11y
0 Deleted. 6 3y
+51 Performing (very) well as a Summer Analyst 35 8y
0 How to *APPROPRIATELY* Find Out Why You Didn't Get the Offer? 9 11y
0 Working with buyer vs seller in M&A transaction 0 11y
+4 What should I spend my break doing? 10 11y
0 Is it alright to to use Breaking Into Wallstreet or Udemy during downtime? 1 11y
0 Baird energy associate 1 11y
0 What's the difference to you? 1 11y
+2 Doing an internship in Dubai 6 11y
+7 Does anyone have the templates for rosenbaum's second edition? 23 10y
+6 How would you value a company if it didn't have positive FCF until it's 6th year of operations? 0 6y
+23 M&A exit opps are a lie 11 11y
0 Most politically driven sector? 4 6y
+12 ljslsj 7 11y
+4 Tudor Pickering Holt & Co (TPH) 1st Rounds? 7 6y
+3 adsfasd 6 11y
0 Is Morgan Stanley NY still recruiting for SA? 8 6y
0 Keeping contacts "updated on your process" 1 11y
0 Latin American Investment Banking NYC 3 6y
0 Oil slowdown ----> layoffs? 11 11y

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  • Moelis & Company 01 99.0%
  • JPMorgan 01 98.4%
  • Guggenheim Partners 02 97.9%
  • Morgan Stanley 06 97.4%

Overall Employee Satisfaction

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  • Morgan Stanley 02 99.0%
  • Evercore 01 98.4%
  • Banco Santander 02 97.9%
  • BMO Capital Markets 13 97.4%

Professional Growth Opportunities

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  • Moelis & Company 01 99.0%
  • Morgan Stanley 05 98.4%
  • Goldman Sachs 01 97.9%
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  • 1st Year Analyst (84) $151
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