+41 Deutsche Bank Team 36 1mo
+41 Late to the Party: Full-Time IB Recruiting Advice For a Senior 19 8mo
+41 Who Has More Aura? GS Vs. Evercore 33 8mo
+41 BNP IB 32 5mo
+41 Unpaid intern at a boutique IB for the last 5 months… do I ask for pay? 25 10mo
+41 2025 SA Return Offer Rates 65 5mo
+40 Stay at Weak Dealflow Team or Lateral? 12 1w
+40 Background check issue IB Full Time 22 1mo
+40 What’s the deal with Greenhill? 19 1w
+40 Do you learn more in middle market? 6 3mo
+40 Jeff , SMFG takeover ? 21 4mo
+40 Lied slightly about gpa? 27 1mo
+40 Best Banks and Groups to Become a Banker for Longer Than 2 Years? 30 5mo
+40 So How Does One FT Recruit?? 7 1mo
+40 Lifestyle Group Rankings 13 5mo
+40 Lateralling as a 3rd Year Analyst Shortly Before Associate Promotion 25 7mo
+40 Fifth Third Bank is an Awful place to work 13 7mo
+40 FT 2026 Recruiting 20 2mo
+40 Anyone Else Get Annoyed by YourFinanceBrother on IG / Tiktok? 22 9mo
+40 Not sure what offer to take after graduation 10 10mo
+40 Lateraling from MM to BB/EB 5 7mo
+40 Career over before starting 13 11mo
+40 FT 2026 Re-Recruiting with Return Offer 27 11mo
+40 Canadian Non-Target — 0/50 Emails Replied — What Are My Options? 46 11mo
+39 Fired during interview 8 6h
+39 What do you say to ppl who don’t know EVR/LAZ/CVP/PJT 28 3w
+39 Investment Banking is Hard 17 1mo
+39 How to be satisfied 23 1mo
+39 EB Exits (Now 2026) 16 2mo
+39 Q1' 2026 RX IB & RX Co. Rankings (Octus) 37 3mo
+39 Cornell Dyson vs NYU Stern vs Berkeley Econ vs UMich Ross 42 3w
+39 IB influencers? 7 5mo
+39 London AN1 rent & where to stay 30 5mo
+39 120K Stratops Analyst (big tech) vs. 210K Finance Associate Role 11 6mo
+39 Private Capital Fundraising/Distribution? 11 4mo
+39 Prestige of finance went down hard? 34 6mo
+39 SA 27 Recruiting - Already fried 4 6mo
+39 Q&A: Director @ Kroll (ex Duff & Phelps) – Mid-Market M&A, Modeling That Actually Gets Used, and What IB Looks Like Outside GS/MS 27 1mo
+39 Lateral Promotion Risks? 12 8mo
+39 Any I Bankers who play Clash Royale down to have a coffee chat? 8 9mo
+39 Barclays Screws You Over One Last Time on the Way Out 9 8mo
+39 FT Recruiting Anxiety 33 1mo
+39 how hard are EB technicals/topics to study and focus on 8 9mo
+39 Is DEI basically discriminatory against non-Londoners? (Half joking, half not) 21 10mo
+38 Quick Thoughts on CVC AI Sale Process 8 2w
+38 Going out / social schedule as AN1 16 2w
+38 Handling frustration 5 1mo
+38 Penn State vs Fordham vs Indiana Bloomington 29 4mo
+38 What did I do wrong? 30 5mo
+38 Fastest/Craziest Promotion Timelines You've Seen 27 3mo
+38 SA2027 Canadian IB Recruiting: U.S. Pullback = Tougher Toronto Cycle? 6 6mo
+38 Bad mid year/first year reviews and improving after? 7 6mo
+38 PWP vs JEFF vs MOE London 31 6mo
+38 Quitting 2Y EB IB for Peace Corps: Is this Insane? What are Job Prospects After? 14 8mo
+38 Done BIWS/WSO course - How to build modelling intuition / discernment from scratch 8 9mo
+38 PoC Bankers 17 9mo
+38 Struggling with Recruitment and why is it so damn early 17 9mo
+38 Rejected From Every Club At Wharton 22 10mo
+38 Long term career in DCM 5 10mo
+38 Networking Automation MVP 10 11mo
+38 Upcoming EB FT Interviews 23 6mo
+37 STEM student lost in London IB recruiting 21 3w
+37 Taking days off as an intern 19 4w
+37 JPM M&A ending/over?? 20 2mo
+37 JP banker poached by Citi is a menace 17 3mo
+37 Incoming freshman at UConn looking for advice 12 3mo
+37 VP/Director at top BB/EB. ~$2.5-3M saved. Stuck. 10 4mo
+37 US Department of War Recruiting Bankers (Recruiting Deck Included Below) 41 2w
+37 Is JEF the cockroach? 13 4mo
+37 deletreeee 31 4mo
+37 Claude is getting scarily good 10 3mo
+37 Terrified of being the "slow intern." 23 5mo
+37 Top banks for Power & Utilities M&A? (2026) 50 2mo
+37 Buying a “Mid-Street” Business 13 2w
+37 Understanding rather than memorizing 10 2mo
+37 Lateralling in the age of AI 11 4mo
+37 Whats the best way to learn Financial Modelling from scratch and for someone with nonfinance background. - please advice 10 9mo
+37 Advice: Bankers asking technicals during coffee chats.. 11 8mo
+37 OpenAI Hiring Ex-Bankers 30 9mo
+37 Thoughts on Factset for PE/IB? 13 9mo
+37 WACC for exotic business 10 10mo
+37 Thoughts on starting own advisory firm? 13 4mo
+37 UBS Sponsors Rep 2025-2026 7 1mo
+36 [WSO MODS] Please Delete This BS Host Books Spam! 2 1w
+36 Summer Class is wild 19 1mo
+36 Incoming IB Analyst: Best Ways to Prepare? 13 2mo
+36 The Madison Group - Morgan Stanley 9 2w
+36 Top Groups at Moelis 47 2w
+36 RBC Deal Flow 6 1w
+36 Lazard NYC return offers 13 3mo
+36 Incoming Oxford PPE Student → Sovereign Wealth Fund (Dubai/London?) 34 2mo
+36 ESSEC MiM vs ESCP MiM — Italian guy (non-French speaker) 23 3mo
+36 Flaming Out - What have Others Experienced? 8 4mo
+36 WF or UBS 12 4mo
+36 UNBIASED RANKING/TIER LIST— JOBS OUT OF UNDERGRAD 30 5mo
+36 My Story: USA 2027 SA Cycle as International Needing Visa 7 5mo
+36 The intern groupchat is already making me spiral. 10 5mo
+36 2028 SA Recruiting: Toronto vs London 16 5mo
+36 Former Force Recon Team Leader -> Non-Target MBA -> IB Summer 2026 9 6mo
+36 What is so hard about investment banking recruitment? 11 10mo

Career Advancement Opportunities

August 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

August 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

August 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

August 2026 Investment Banking

  • Vice President (16) $429
  • Associates (47) $258
  • 3rd+ Year Analyst (8) $210
  • 2nd Year Analyst (25) $178
  • Intern/Summer Associate (14) $159
  • 1st Year Analyst (83) $151
  • Intern/Summer Analyst (74) $101
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