+16 Settling for advising or holding out for something better-please help 4 5y
+60 Big 4 S&A Consulting vs Fintech PM 25 5y
0 Middle Market Banking (Credit not IB) at Wells Fargo or Capital Markets at Citi 3 5y
0 Bank of America Merrill Lynch - Interview - Investment Banking Data 5y
0 Goldman Sachs - Interview - Investment Banking Data 5y
0 JPMorgan - Salary & Bonus - Generalist Data 5y
+1 Spring Weeks London 1 3y
0 Can Too Many Finance Internships Hurt You for Entry Level Positions? 0 5y
0 Lehman Brothers 2021 Summer Analyst Megathread 2 5y
+7 Jefferies Houston FT 2021 4 5y
+1 How Hard is it to Make MD at a BB in London 2 5y
+10 Best Career Options at the intersection of Wall Street and Silicon Valley ?? 1 5y
+10 Best Groups at Citi IB 20 5y
0 LMM IB associate vs UMM IB analyst 4 5y
0 Houlihan Lokey - Review - Investment Banking Data 5y
+1 Redirection from London to NY 2 5y
0 Agency Banking 0 5y
+21 Modeling Test - Big 4 Infra? 21 1y
0 Alpha Capital Holdings - Review - Investment Banking Data 5y
0 Best banks to become career bankers? 4 5y
+19 Are long working hours in banking exaggerated? 9 5y
+102 IB coming back to golden days? 70 5y
0 RBC Capital Markets - Review - Investment Banking Data 5y
+9 FINALLY got an offer!! TLDR: Don't give up 3 5y
0 Bank of America Merrill Lynch - Interview - Financial Institutions Group (FIG) Data 5y
0 Corporate Finance to Boutique Bank 0 5y
0 HEEEELLLLP!!!! Can't find anything about debt funding 0 5y
+20 MD IBD comp 28 5y
+32 Low gpa and graduated during March 2020 17 5y
0 Harvey & Company - Review - Mergers and Acquisitions Data 5y
+4 Corporate banking=High Finance? 5 5y
+21 IB SA 2021 Swag 36 5y
0 Barclays - Review - Investment Banking Data 5y
0 Barclays - Salary & Bonus - Investment Banking Data 5y
0 PE Pay 0 5y
+89 What exactly makes IB so stressful? Is your MD throwing tens of pitches at you at all times? 29 5y
+9 MBA Pass/No Pass Question 15 5y
+10 How Did That Event Affect The 3 Reporting Forms? 5 5y
+3 How did these events affect the 3 reporting forms? 2 5y
+2 Big 4 Tas/Fas vs Valuations vs Restructuring 2 5y
+17 Relationship vs Prestige - how to choose my summer internship 12 5y
+14 What would it take to jump to corp dev? 6 5y
+12 Lateraling from BB to small shop in SFO 0 5y
0 JPMorgan - Interview - Investment Banking Data 5y
+5 EBIT vs. Operating Income 6 5y
+10 How to arrange for a M&A with family business 4 5y
0 Is it risky to lie about your salary 3 5y
0 Evercore - Salary & Bonus - Restructuring Data 5y
+36 To the MDs out there: Best advice on how to originate deals/get clients? 14 4y
+5 Is it possible to get Internships at GS or MS without referal? 3 5y
0 For interviewers - When will you start being impatient? 2 5y
+5 What will 1st round interview begin with? 5 5y
0 LinkedIn vs personal email? 4 5y
0 Edmond de Rothschild - Review - Investment Banking Data 5y
+13 Balance Sheet will not Balance 6 5y
0 Greenhill - Interview - Investment Banking Data 5y
0 Edmond de Rothschild - Salary & Bonus - Investment Banking Data 5y
+3 Women's programs for sophomores 0 5y
0 Natixis - Review - Investment Banking Data 5y
0 Natixis - Salary & Bonus - Investment Banking Data 5y
+18 Do you find Investment Banking to be fun, and be doing it if it werent for the sizeable compensation? 7 5y
+11 JP Morgan IB (Healthcare) vs BAML (real estate) Summer Intern in NYC 22 5y
0 Piper Jaffray - Review - Mergers and Acquisitions Data 5y
0 Morgan Stanley - Salary & Bonus - Mergers and Acquisitions Data 5y
0 Morgan Stanley - Interview - Investment Banking Data 5y
0 RBC M&A Deals 0 5y
0 BB CB vs Nordic IBD 1 4y
0 JPMorgan - Interview - Investment Banking Data 5y
+9 Will I be dinged for this? 2 5y
0 Jefferies - Review - Industrials Data 5y
+27 Moelis vs Citi (London) 20 3y
0 Help! Anyone in IBD mining? 0 5y
+12 Moelis vs Citi (London) 0 5y
+12 How to pitch himself to IB coming from big 4 0 5y
0 Tudor Pickering Holt and Co - Interview - Oil & Gas Data 5y
+9 Summer Analyst Background Check 0 5y
0 I am curious ... how many WSO members read 10K filings before interviewing with a company? 5 5y
0 Morgan Stanley - Salary & Bonus - Leveraged Finance Data 5y
0 London A2A sign on bonuses? 5 5y
+33 William Blair London 31 3y
0 H.C. Wainwright & Co. - Interview - Investment Banking Data 5y
0 Perella Weinberg Partners - Salary & Bonus - Restructuring Data 5y
+3 Glencore 2021 FT 0 5y
0 Stephens Inc - Interview - Restructuring Data 5y
+9 Applying FT after SA 4 5y
+9 How long does it take to hear from GS London after Hirevue 0 5y
0 Morgan Stanley - Interview - Investment Banking Data 5y
+132 Tell me a joke related to investment banking? 47 4y
+9 No BS - Analyst Comp IB NYC 0 5y
+3 How long does it take for firm like MS or GS to respond to your online job application? 0 5y
0 Canadian Banks' U.S. Presence Relative to US MM/Boutiques 1 5y
0 Question about excel custom format used by Macabacus 3 5y
0 Credit Suisse LAF transaction execution group? 4 5y
0 Evercore - Review - Real Estate Data 5y
+11 GS S&T vs Citi IBD (Which Summer Analyst Position to Choose) 5 5y
0 Evercore - Salary & Bonus - Real Estate Data 5y
0 Hate banking but no luck with exits: what do I do 0 5y
0 Screwed up technical question with MD 4 5y
0 Credit Suisse - Interview - Restructuring Data 5y
0 College Freshman Summer Help 1 5y

Career Advancement Opportunities

July 2026 Investment Banking

  • Evercore 01 99.4%
  • Moelis & Company 01 98.9%
  • JPMorgan 01 98.3%
  • Morgan Stanley 08 97.8%
  • Goldman Sachs 02 97.2%

Overall Employee Satisfaction

July 2026 Investment Banking

  • Moelis & Company No 99.4%
  • Evercore No 98.9%
  • Morgan Stanley 01 98.3%
  • Banco Santander 02 97.8%
  • BMO Capital Markets 12 97.2%

Professional Growth Opportunities

July 2026 Investment Banking

  • Evercore 01 99.4%
  • Moelis & Company 01 98.9%
  • Morgan Stanley 06 98.3%
  • Goldman Sachs 01 97.8%
  • JPMorgan 01 97.2%

Total Avg Compensation

July 2026 Investment Banking

  • Vice President (16) $429
  • Associates (47) $258
  • 3rd+ Year Analyst (8) $210
  • 2nd Year Analyst (24) $180
  • Intern/Summer Associate (14) $159
  • 1st Year Analyst (82) $151
  • Intern/Summer Analyst (73) $101
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