Sameer Merchant
His LinkedIn bio says something about helping originate deals for investment banks through LinkedIn & SEO. Am I just too uninformed about IB? How reasonable is that??
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No he’s a bonehead at best and a malicious scammer at worst. Just search his name on WSO and read the threads already posted.
Still can't believe he blatantly wrote such a thing
He probably watches you pee at the urinal
> be Sameer Merchant
> work in Equity Research, for no more than 3 years in one company and hop around sectors constantly
> never get promoted above analyst
> say you're an ex-GS analyst (knowing that people will think you worked in IB)
> start banking programme with 90% placement rate (to big 4)
> flocks of international students and non-targets start giving you free advertising on LinkedIn
💀😂—wonderful business model (ironically of course)
He’s living up to his name, Merchant.
Just that the only thing he’s selling is snake oil.
Interviewers should use whether the interviewee follows Sameer Merchant as an EQ litmus test
I unironically agree with this
Scam Merchant
I love Scam Merchants photo’s that accompany his meaningless paragraphs of text…
Like bro, who did you ask to take the photo of you posing in the Canary Wharf forest with a hard copy of the FT tucked in green your famous green trenchcoat?
This man literally made a 'top 10 investment banks to work at' list a week or two ago and basically copy pasted league tables...BofA put above MS and JP, not a single EB on the list - but Wells Fargo and BNP instead. It is genuinely concerning how little he knows about banking.
I guess being a CFA Charterholder is his one & only redeeming quality – if that counts for anything
Guess the "Ethics" section is nowhere near that tough or stringent after all...
Counted for something***
As the idiot who paid money for this course: avoid anything to do with Sameer Merchant like the bubonic plague. He is single-handedly one of the most selfish, opportunistic individuals that I have ever had the displeasure of knowing. Having worked in finance across multiple jurisdictions, I have yet to meet someone who is so hubristic yet fails to catch that nobody takes them seriously. He is a con artist that capitalizes on oblivious, non-target kids. If you are so desperate for a finance gig and your profile is shit: GO BACK TO SCHOOL AND GET YOUR MASTERS. To compare his own course to the credibility of a business school is so arrogant to the point that it is insulting. Also, he makes spelling mistakes in all of his advertisements. Automatic red flag.
Lol what is his course actually like?
His internship is being an errand boy at his makeshift company. Cease and desist from this endeavour and do not even entertain the thought. Equity research is a dying(if not, dead) field anyway.
i remember 2-3 years ago he used to spread misinformation for recruiting on tiktok, guy is so sleazy, i mean look at him
Its much worse than you actually fathom
Sameer tha Gawd - guy is a legend - heard he cleared $12mm last year
lmao from what? the courses?
Courses / private tutoring / his crypto vc investments - guy is a baller
Cap
Straight Cap....also feels like this commentator is one of his hired assistants, who Scam Merchant hired upon discovering his declining reputation on WSO lololol
Ballers don't exploit young kids with aspirations. He's in the mix with that O'Dwyer character and Tobin.
The aforementioned content says it all. To the original commentator that purportedly works at Morgan Stanley: I encourage you to revaluate the extent of your own stupidity. If Sameer Merchant was so prominent in VC you probably would have less of an idea of his earnings (the VC world is INCREDIBLY secretive after all.) Crypto investments are extremely opaque and unreliable (Sam Brinkman Fried sold the world pixie dust.) Finally, unless someone develops a health condition from working at a bulge bracket and has an epiphany, it is rarely that profitable to be a baller from tutoring (unless you're in it for the meatriders that jerk you off for selling a beautiful heart-warming story on how your health condition developed a greater sense of empathy towards wannabes. Finance is largely story telling after all, so whatever floats your boat.) I am curious to meet a woman whose panties are wet from hearing that a man is a tutor. Check yourself before you wreck yourself, especially in relation to comments about a man that hires his family friends to act like his errand boys and deploys more errand boys to pretend to be investment bankers(rereading this comment made me realize how the internship is virtually a Ponzi scheme.)
Went from chemicals to fintech to autos to UK real estate... all while lying about being an "analyst" in ER instead of an associate who consistently job-hopped.
It says a lot about a person when they consistently switch industries in a field where corporate relationships within a specific sector are paramount to anything else.
Dude this guy copied breaking into wall street and repackaged it into British English. I am surprised he has not faced a lawsuit yet!
As if the reviews on WSO could not speak for themselves any more clearly, the misspelling of calibre as "caluber" reflects the sheer lack of attention to detail.
Not gonna lie, feel a bit sorry for him for thinking WSO is their competitor, not even in the same league hahaha
Everytime I see his linkedin posts I think about him asking a stranger to take a picture of him reading a newspaper in canary wharf. Wonder how much of an NPC they think he is walking around in a 3 piece suit for no reason
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