What do you say to ppl who don’t know EVR/LAZ/CVP/PJT
Genuinely curious what people with these highly coveted summer internship or analyst roles say when you tell people who only know JPM/GS where you work. You work at some of the most well paid and impressive firms in finance but like 95% don’t know them. They’re super impressive if you know, but only 5% of the people you’d talk to on the street or family friends would actually know them.
So what do you say and how do you avoid feeling like you work at UBS/Baird/Stifel when telling people where you work? (ie because they just don’t know where you work…)
Not that this matters immensely and probably a neurotic thing to think about but out of curiosity what do you say/how do you convey the impressiveness of the firm to people who think Lazard is a four legged reptile?
Incoming SA 27 at EB — I say that I’m interning at an investment bank in New York. Genuinely no one has cared to ask where, so you were right to deduce that the statement you made was overly neurotic. You should be happy about your own achievements and not have to seek validation from others.
I work at a hedge fund 99% of people don’t know but people on the street do. When people ask what I do, I say I work in finance. If they ask further, I say I do investment research at a hedge fund. Thats usually when the convo switches to another topic, because 99% of people do not give a shit about your job or wall st.
This is true.
During my time in DL the easiest explanation to my foreign family is that I was indeed a bank teller.
Well first, congrats on Lazard. Let’s bump that puppy down to EB tier 2 along with Moelis and PWP, thanks.
Second, go get laid intern.
Right to bump Laz down to T2 but Moelis and PWP is considered a T3 EB or a Gugg/Roth/GHL/Non-EB-Non-MM in between nowadays no? PWP has lost all deal flow and Moelis NYC is unanimously viewed as a glorified MM.
Not trying to be rude, just trying to put out up to date info for prospects.
funny enough random girls at a bar would think working at UBS is better than CVP. Just say you work in banking no one cares
Solid bait.
genuinely how insecure does one have to be to want to accurately portray the impressiveness and prestige of the bank that he works at to the huzz / own family
My freshman summer I interned at a firm with someone in his sophomore summer who said he had locked down an evercore offer for the following summer. I said I didnt know what that was. A little of him died inside in front of me.
You can admit this is about girls.
Jesus Christ dude
Ok, I’ve actually been in a similar spot.
Really feel you man here’s exactly what to do, step-by-step:
1) Go get laid
2) Go outside and touch some of that green stuff
3) Throw your phone in a deep lake
4) Go make a friend (AI chatbots and similar, sweaty asian/white prestige-whore sophomores don’t count)
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