I've been seeing the mentions of analysts being grouped into those three groups. I understand it is related to performance, but I was curious on how or why they were grouped that way. How would you become a top bucket analyst if you were stuck in mid bucket?
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I was wondering this too the other day. Just look up older posts and some people explain it pretty well
Can already tell you're going to be a good intern, you tried to look up the answer first before just asking
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