+8 Boutiques in Paris? 19 6y
0 Exit Opportunities from BD Group 1 15y
+8 Energy Boutique dealflow 5 15y
0 Average SA-to-FT Signing Bonuses (2012) 6 6y
0 Resume Review: Entry IB internship 0 15y
+21 Rothschild M&A Advisory in Shanghai or Goldman Sachs Gao Hua Financing Group in Beijing 6 6y
0 Critique my Plan to Break into IBD 6 15y
0 What would you do? - Was in the FIG team of a BB in London 1 6y
0 Should I email every alum in the database 4 15y
+33 Full time recruitment timeline 52 6y
0 Trading the job for the brand 2 6y
+13 how soon after interviews do interviewers make their decisions? 11 15y
0 How to get into this industry with only sales experience and no degree currently 6 15y
0 How to make the? 5 15y
0 Need Opinions 6 6y
+12 How exactly do I Cold Call? 7 15y
0 What's the name of this book? 6 3y
0 Need Help: How Do I Quit? 10 15y
0 Preparing for a Case Study in Commercial Banking 1 15y
+21 Trading Bonuses To Plunge 22 15y
0 Question about Credit-Suisse recruiting online 9 15y
+30 S&P Has Some Splaining To Do 12 15y
0 Wall Street = Planet of the Apes 5 15y
+34 Holy shit... 63 15y
+6 Somebody destroy my resume. Do I have a shot at IB? 8 15y
0 Conference / Events for Students? 0 15y
+805 Wall Street GPAs: Is a 3.5 GPA Good? 1,003 4y
0 Anyone buying GS? 2 15y
0 How to use "awesome" connects 3 6y
+13 How to Display your CFA knowledge without having written it/passing it? 10 15y
0 How to Display your CFA knowledge without having written it/passing it? 1 15y
+20 Google buys Motorola Mobility 23 15y
0 Cold-email 3 15y
+3 Lehman Brothers 2.0 2 6y
0 Franklin and Marshall College on the street 2 6y
+4 I-Banking Resume Critique or "Rape this RESUME" lol 10 15y
+47 Is Wall Street Prep worth it? 68 4y
0 OCR - Applying to Positions 3.5GPA+ 11 15y
+78 Healthcare Banking Overview 88 8y
+21 is restructuring coming back? 15 15y
0 Can I bring my own laptop to work? 8 15y
0 2012 IBD Full Time Offers 2 15y
0 Offer advice - Semi-target 9 10y
0 What's been going on the last few days? 2 15y
0 GS Associate search firm? 0 15y
0 weekly market wrap-up? 6 15y
0 Can someone break down all the investment banking divisions? 8 9y
+6 economics club? 3 15y
0 Exploding Offer / how to get interviews? 2 15y
0 M&I was right: investment bankers do secretly want their own company 14 15y
0 Is it time for me to grow up and actually find a job? 7 14y
0 So, how was your internship? 4 15y
+24 When is the best time to email a banker? 51 9y
+6 How do hipsters afford to live in NYC? 12 6y
0 Laz vs GS for tech corp dev exit ops 1 15y
0 Duff & Phelps Email Structure 2 15y
+7 Cold e-mailing: when to stop e-mailing a particular bank 3 15y
+9 Negative EV? 4 15y
0 major decision 18 15y
0 Who's got the best weekly performance? Post numbers here 6 15y
0 Resume bullet points for this summer's job 1 15y
+8 Republican Debates 21 15y
0 unpaid part-time fall internship in Nashvile 3 15y
0 This Guys are giving new meaning to the Mile High Club 4 15y
0 Resume GPA for Phone Calls/First Round Interviews for SA's 1 6y
0 "Performance Based" Bonus 4 15y
0 For my fellow monkeys in London... 18 6y
0 Blackstone M&A Advisory NY 32 4y
0 Help a complete non target! 3 6y
+17 Hedge Fund Vs Private Equity Pay Post IBD 14 15y
0 Monkey Volunteer Needed 5 6y
0 Background Check -- Questions? 7 15y
+17 How to target banks for internships 6 15y
0 Would this be wrong? 3 15y
+31 How the fuck do hipsters get jobs. 62 15y
0 MM Banks that pay equal to BB's 6 12y
0 Assets-to-Equity Ratio, Can someone help? 0 15y
0 Debt/Equity ratio of private companies 1 15y
+43 Using precedent transactions 31 15y
0 Barclays Corporate. 2 15y
+24 Please give me advice - bad non target school! 22 14y
+467 I F***ING HATE NEW YORK 390 6y
0 Transferring Colleges??? 0 6y
+14 What type of IBank are you interested in/work at? BB? MM? Boutique? 15 15y
+5 After the internship ask for letter of rec? 12 15y
0 Just finished up my IB internship and now need advice 9 15y
0 Random WSO Questions 0 15y
0 Comp set multiples - average or weighted average? 8 15y
0 Can someone explain the recent events of the stock market 4 15y
+4 Question for people who went to targets... 22 15y
+12 Spoke with a guy at BAML 6 15y
0 Investing Vs Underwriting in DCM/LevFin/Commercial Banking 4 15y
+18 Should I fucking marry her now or what? What would YOU do in my shoes, fellow monkeys? 39 6y
0 Hustling HR 1 15y
0 Online Apps - FT recruitment as rising senior 0 10y
0 where da cash at? 1 15y
0 Canadian deals? 8 6y
+26 GS Accelerated Interview Invitations 204 6y
+15 If you could be any one of these in 5 years, which would it be? 20 6y
0 Yo Banker Man, would you rather meet me in the AM or PM? 8 6y

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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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  • 2nd Year Analyst (29) $183
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  • 1st Year Analyst (84) $151
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