0 Moelis & Company - Salary & Bonus - Investment Banking Data 5y
0 B. Riley & Co. - Interview - Generalist Data 5y
+9 Drug test AFTER background check? 3 4y
0 Stout Risius Ross - Interview - Mergers and Acquisitions Data 5y
0 JPMorgan - Review - Generalist Data 5y
0 Robert W. Baird & Co. - Salary & Bonus - Investment Banking Data 5y
0 Please review/rip into my CV, I am gearing up to start buy-side recruiting 4 5y
+15 Working Hard 1 5y
0 What sort of reputation did the major banks have before the Global Financial Crisis? 1 5y
0 Arma Partners - Salary & Bonus - Mergers and Acquisitions Data 5y
0 CIBC NYC Energy Team 2 4y
0 Alvarez & Marsal - Review - Restructuring Data 5y
0 Alvarez & Marsal - Salary & Bonus - Restructuring Data 5y
+37 Q&A. request: The GS junior bankers that introduced themselves to an annoyed David Solomon in the Hamptons 5 5y
+17 Esade MSc Finance to Investment Banking? 14 5y
0 JPMorgan - Review - Generalist Data 5y
+82 Is Anyone Having a Good Time? 28 4y
0 Lazard 2021 NY Sophomore Women's Event 1 4y
+1 Forgot to do WB online assessment 1 5y
+264 You're too fucking privileged. 70 5y
+12 Complaining 43 5y
0 Cambridge Wilkinson - Review - NA Data 5y
0 Cambridge Wilkinson - Salary & Bonus - NA Data 5y
+7 PJT Urgent Interview!! 11 5y
0 Drug Screening (im from a legal weed state Job is not) 5 5y
+6 Messed up easy accounting question 12 5y
0 Citigroup - Salary & Bonus - Technology, Media and Telecom (TMT) Data 5y
+3 How will Bankers Leaving affect SA Rates? 4 5y
0 Citizens Lev Fin 1 5y
0 Goldman Sachs - Salary & Bonus - Audit Data 5y
0 Greenhill - Interview - Mergers and Acquisitions Data 5y
+23 MD doesn't know I got HR dinged? 18 5y
0 Santander UK Corporate Investment Banking Internship AC 1 5y
+16 How to secure and IB Internship - London - Undergrad - 1st year 25 4y
0 Rothschild - Interview - Investment Banking Data 5y
+10 Hours will be just as bad after WFH finishes? 5 5y
0 PJT Partners - Interview - Generalist Data 5y
0 Homepage Improvement Suggestion 6 5y
+4 PJT - Secondary Advisory (London) 2 5y
0 TM Capital - Review - Mergers and Acquisitions Data 5y
0 TM Capital - Salary & Bonus - Mergers and Acquisitions Data 5y
0 Wells Fargo and Company - Salary & Bonus - Debt Capital Markets Data 5y
0 Citigroup - Review - Financial Institutions Group (FIG) Data 5y
0 Citigroup - Salary & Bonus - Financial Institutions Group (FIG) Data 5y
0 Stifel Toronto 1 5y
0 Nomura Holdings - Salary & Bonus - Risk Management Data 5y
0 Employer Credit Check 4 1y
0 Mapping data 3 3y
0 Piper Sandler - Review - Investment Banking Data 5y
+8 Will non-target undergrad hurt my PE exit opp chances? 11 5y
0 Piper Sandler - Salary & Bonus - Investment Banking Data 5y
+5 How easy will it be for me to switch groups? 5 5y
+354 Please stop wasting your life 90 2y
+48 Jefferies giving Free Pelotons to all ANL and ASOs 55 5y
0 First round 1 5y
+3 Did anyone receive an offer at Goldman Sachs after they asked to fill the compensation questionnaire 1 5y
0 Diamond Capital Advisors - Interview - Investment Banking Data 5y
+3 What does the "recruiting coordinator" actually do?? 1 3y
+3 HK BB to US PE? 1 5y
+29 Undisclosed broker account 17 5y
0 CIBC World Markets - Review - Investment Banking Data 5y
0 Sophomore internship: second-tier consulting or no-name boutique bank 1 5y
+69 How do you deal with anxiety during interviews 16 4y
0 Castle Placement - Interview - Investment Banking Data 5y
+20 Worst HR Interaction Stories 5 5y
+8 Commercial Banking vs. Big 4 Audit 7 5y
0 Greenhill SA 2022 1 5y
+15 Greenhill SA 2022 62 4y
0 Wells Fargo and Company - Review - Investment Banking Data 5y
+9 In IB but not really interested in business/finance - what to do? 4 5y
0 WFH or Office? Which one do you prefer? 2 5y
+1 BofA SA 2021 to be fully virtual 3 5y
0 Fees in Pitchbook 4 5y
+12 S&T -> IBD or Masters -> IBD? Help! 2 5y
0 SA/FT 21 - virtual/live list of banks 1 5y
+45 BAML / Bank of America is going virtual this summer 45 5y
+9 IB Barclays vs PE Warburg Pincus 13 5y
+3 SF -> NYC 1 5y
+18 Worth it to lateral right now? 8 5y
0 Got good uni name not much else 2 3y
0 Have you ever seen someone not get a return for their SA IBD gig and still return to the same bank after a few years? 1 5y
0 RBC Royal Bank of Canada - Salary & Bonus - Mergers and Acquisitions Data 5y
0 Truist Bank - Interview - Credit Risk Data 5y
+8 EB Superday in One Week idk any Techs 5 5y
0 Just waiting for those GS survey slides to go viral.... 1 5y
0 Midtown Partners - Interview - Investment Banking Data 5y
0 Moelis & Company - Salary & Bonus - Generalist Data 5y
0 Baird SA 2022 4 5y
+11 RBC Capital Markets D&I Discovery Day 2021 22 4y
0 Goldman Sachs Working Conditions Survey 4 5y
0 Financial Technology Partners - Interview - Investment Banking Data 5y
0 JPMorgan - Review - NA Data 5y
0 JPMorgan - Salary & Bonus - NA Data 5y
+17 Less than one year in IB, got lateral offer from another BB IB - move or not? 14 5y
+6 Ardea Partners Interview 22 2y
0 Wells Fargo and Company - Review - Industrials Data 5y
0 Wells Fargo and Company - Salary & Bonus - Industrials Data 5y
+122 IB DCM Is it that bad? 55 1y
0 Morgan Stanley - Review - Investment Banking Data 5y
+5 SA 2022 Rothschild's Women's Program 1 5y

Career Advancement Opportunities

October 2026 Investment Banking

  • Evercore 01 99.5%
  • Moelis & Company 01 99.0%
  • JPMorgan 01 98.4%
  • Guggenheim Partners 02 97.9%
  • Morgan Stanley 06 97.4%

Overall Employee Satisfaction

October 2026 Investment Banking

  • Moelis & Company No 99.5%
  • Morgan Stanley 02 99.0%
  • Evercore 01 98.4%
  • Banco Santander 02 97.9%
  • BMO Capital Markets 12 97.4%

Professional Growth Opportunities

October 2026 Investment Banking

  • Evercore 01 99.5%
  • Moelis & Company 01 99.0%
  • Morgan Stanley 05 98.4%
  • Goldman Sachs 01 97.9%
  • JPMorgan No 97.4%

Total Avg Compensation

October 2026 Investment Banking

  • Vice President (16) $429
  • Associates (57) $264
  • 3rd+ Year Analyst (8) $210
  • 2nd Year Analyst (28) $184
  • Intern/Summer Associate (16) $161
  • 1st Year Analyst (84) $151
  • Intern/Summer Analyst (76) $101
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