Hi! I am trying to decide between a Tier 3 Bank (Nomura/Mizuho/HSBC) and a Tech Boutique offer (GCA/FT Partners/USA). I know that the tech boutique has better deal flow but not sure I want to be pigeonholed so early in my career. Any advice on which offer to take or how to choose? Thank you in advance!
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Less related but how do you decide what is a "Tier 3" bank? Seems rather arbitrary
I don't understand rankings. Thats just how they were referred to on this website.
Anything after tier 1 is arbitrary, it's true across the board with rankings. Everyone can agree that Harvard is tier one, but it's ridiculous to argue over whether Villanova is tier 3 or tier 26, yet I see people doing it all the time
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Tech is the absolute best industry to be “pigeonholed” into, are you kidding?
Id also assume that the quality of exits from the tech boutiques would be higher than the other banks you mentioned plus tech is a really great industry to be in and those are solid names in the tech banking space
I mean if it was like a Nomura vs FT Partners, I would take Nomura especially with the culture and hpurs that ft partners has
Nomura literally has 0 deal flow
Is FT Partners really that bad? Feel like with that kinda deal flow comes lots of hours
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