+4 How do you value the optionality of a potential project? 1 5y
0 Piper Sandler - Salary & Bonus - Investment Banking Data 5y
0 Wells Fargo and Company - Review - Debt Capital Markets Data 5y
+22 Correct explanation of cash-free/debt-free 5 5y
+15 RX interview - Unconventional background, how to make the most of this? 1 5y
0 JP Morgan Securities - Review - Investment Banking Data 5y
0 JP Morgan Securities - Salary & Bonus - Investment Banking Data 5y
+13 Gs account 5 5y
0 UBS AG - Salary & Bonus - Investment Banking Data 5y
+3 What means Fixed cost absorption 2 5y
+3 How to ask for more time on offer? 3 5y
+5 compare the price of 2 bond, 1 is 10 year and the other is 3 year, if interest rate decrease 1 5y
0 Wells Fargo and Company - Salary & Bonus - Debt Capital Markets Data 5y
0 Wells Fargo and Company - Review - Debt Capital Markets Data 5y
0 Wells Fargo and Company - Salary & Bonus - Debt Capital Markets Data 5y
+5 EVERCORE Analyst Bonus Discussion 4 5y
+110 Giving up on your dreams 13 4y
+15 Masks for in person interview 10 5y
+12 Reach out to HR? 2 4y
+3 Telling intern that they've been getting positive reviews and still no return offer? 2 5y
+13 Easy SA IBD in New York 4 5y
0 Guggenheim Partners - Review - Generalist Data 5y
0 Guggenheim Partners - Salary & Bonus - Generalist Data 5y
+12 How to Successfully Navigate Internal Mobility into Bigger City After Getting Offer Following Internship 2 5y
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0 Bank of America Merrill Lynch - Review - Investment Banking Data 5y
0 Bank of America Merrill Lynch - Salary & Bonus - Investment Banking Data 5y
+11 Series 79 Advice 10 5y
0 Wells Fargo and Company - Salary & Bonus - Leveraged Finance Data 5y
+59 How good of a predictor is GPA for performance as an IB analyst? 35 5y
0 JP Morgan Securities - Review - Investment Banking Data 5y
0 JP Morgan Securities - Salary & Bonus - Investment Banking Data 5y
+3 How to name drop multiple names? 2 5y
+15 Advice for translating deal/trade comp valuation across countries 1 5y
+17 2 months to sign offer 4 5y
+14 IBD SA--> PE SA --> IBD FT 4 5y
0 Spurrier Capital Partners - Interview - Generalist Data 5y
+56 World doesn’t owe you a job 33 5y
+51 Restructuring Groups in 2020 26 5y
0 Moelis & Company - Interview - Generalist Data 5y
+22 MS SA 2020 Return Offers 15 5y
0 Investment Banking Ranking 4 5y
+22 FT Partners Interview 23 4y
+10 Best division at Big4 to enter to lateral into IB? 1 5y
+20 SA 2021 Recruiting Ranting Thread 29 5y
+4 Combined Enterprise Value in M&A 2 5y
+23 Piper Sandler Return Offers 30 5y
+9 Differences between biopharma, biotech, and pharmaceuticals 1 5y
0 Citigroup - Review - Generalist Data 5y
0 Citigroup - Salary & Bonus - Generalist Data 5y
+12 Brown, Gibbons, & Lang - Thoughts? 3 5y
0 PJT Partners - Interview - NA Data 5y
+27 No FT Return Offer (MM) 21 5y
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+6 Resources to view industry group league tables 1 5y
0 Piper Sandler - Salary & Bonus - Leveraged Finance Data 5y
+1 Bank rescinds offers 4 5y
+8 2020 IB Analyst Bonuses 1 5y
+15 Too late to apply to US summer 2021 roles? 2 5y
+53 FT Conversation Rates 57 5y
+34 Nittany Lion Fund or Leveraged Lion Capital 14 5y
0 Houlihan Lokey - Review - Generalist Data 5y
0 Houlihan Lokey - Salary & Bonus - Generalist Data 5y
0 Guggenheim Partners - Interview - Restructuring Data 5y
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+4 What is a M&A Advisory? 3 5y
+9 PwC Valuations 2020 3 5y
+4 Do y'all look at the interviewer during your virtual interview? 2 5y
+25 In what sense is enterprise value the value of a firm 9 5y
+10 Evercore Strategic Defense & Shareholder Advisory 9 3y
+10 How could an LBO happen without a bank? 8 5y
+12 Professionalism and Maintaining Good Relationship - feel Free to Proviee Svice 1 5y
0 HSBC - Review - Generalist Data 5y
0 HSBC - Salary & Bonus - Generalist Data 5y
0 Piper Sandler - Interview - Generalist Data 5y
0 Blackstone Group - Review - Investment Banking Data 5y
0 Blackstone Group - Salary & Bonus - Investment Banking Data 5y
0 JP Morgan Securities - Salary & Bonus - Investment Banking Data 5y
+10 Compliance Personnel with Series 79? 4 5y
+24 Books for IB/PE 10 5y
+290 This is a fuck-Jefferies thread. All my homies hate Jefferies. 83 5y
+6 PJT Partners SF FT 2021 1 5y
+13 Graduation or post-pone for another shot at summer intern spots 5 5y
0 PJT Partners - Review - Generalist Data 5y
0 PJT Partners - Salary & Bonus - Generalist Data 5y
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0 PJT Partners - Salary & Bonus - Mergers and Acquisitions Data 5y
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+15 Private Equity Interviews and Consulting Case Studies 1 5y
+21 Barclays Bonuses 12 5y
+4 Brazilian intern transfer to NY Office 1 5y
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+50 Evercore Private Funds Group (PFG)? 51 2y
+7 Working Captial industry differences 1 5y
+6 Have Not Gotten Bonus Numbers Yet 5 5y
+13 Crazy/stupid to work through college right now? 4 5y
+1 SA CS FIG verticals 3 5y
+15 Zoom/Teams Interview Tips? 14 5y
0 BNP Paribas - Interview - Investment Banking Data 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 (46) $258
  • 3rd+ Year Analyst (8) $210
  • 2nd Year Analyst (23) $182
  • Intern/Summer Associate (14) $159
  • 1st Year Analyst (82) $151
  • Intern/Summer Analyst (73) $101
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