Reapplying to London IB after interning at Amazon?
Dear WSO,
I was wondering if people had any thoughts on my current situation.
I’m currently a second year undergrad at a UK target (Oxbridge/LSE). Have struck out in finance this recruiting season, with my only offer being interning in logistics & operations for Amazon in my hometown. I have okay-ish experience (LMM M&A internship in first year, whilst also part of some student societies/investment funds. My A Levels should be good enough to not hinder me and I'm on track for a 2:1). I applied everywhere and interviewed mostly across MM banks (Raymond James, Lincoln, DC) and some buyside funds (one credit HF and a LMM PE/GE Investor). Most of these were through Dartmouth Partners and after getting feedback from them I’m pretty if I reapplied next year my CV would get through their screening systems again. Whilst preparing for the interview with the Credit HF, my interest in RX and distressed credit got piqued, and since this I’ve read the Caesar’s Palace Coup and the restructuring interview guides, and been following the Pari Passu newsletter and account. Ultimately this is the sort of area I would aim to break into, but speaking to friends who have interned in this space they highlighted how a prior BB/EB internship would likely be necessary for RX and I am worried that this is out of reach. I have cold emailed some distressed credit HFs and have been recruiting late into the cycle but have come up with nothing else aside from Amazon yet.
I am currently planing on re applying to summers next year (and will change my grad date to ’27 and say I will complete a masters etc). Do people think it would be possible to land an IB internship, even if I end up spending my second year interning at Amazon? I have heard from 3rd years I know that Amazon Operations —> Strategy/Management Consulting could definitely be doable (especially as the Amazon internship will consist of analysing data to try and make the warehouse run better), but tbh consulting just seems less exiting and intriguing than IB/RX.
I was wondering my plan to reapply to summers next year is realistic/worth it? Would the Amazon brand and experience help or hinder my application?
Thanks for your time and any thoughts or guidance would be greatly appreciated.
Realise I forgot to add this in there but I have also spoke to an extremely small LMM PE shop (only 2 employees, they raise capital separately for each deal) and could potentially try and intern here (maybe doing it part time alongside Amazon, I dont know if it would be a paid internship). It seemed interesting and they are currently working on a developing a VC fund-of-fund type platform which gives EU investors access to top performing West coast VC funds.
My experience is that big tech is one of the best perceived experiences outside of direct finance since British HR people love prestige and brand names. Amazon is probably the worst of the big tech companies because they have so many interns and very high turnover (plus I'm not even sure the logistics part of Amazon even qualifies as big tech) but it's still quite good. You might get asked about your interest in finance but if you have previous experience/clubs you should be able to answer that. Other than that I don't see it hurting you.
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