Which would you choose? - Any thoughts?
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I think your priority should be focused on securing work that you are interested in as opposed to brand names. From the looks of your list that would be IB. So something like this makes sense:
At the end of the day you should be casting your net as wide as possible to maximise your options. You might not get an offer from the firm you want now but you can always lateral if you have industry relevant experience down the track. So I recommend applying to as many firms as possible that you can commit the time to interview with and make your decision once your offers have been made.
Yes MS IBD is fantastic, but did you really need external validation to stroke ur ego more?
don't have offers yet, just in the process and trying to get an internal rank. chill out
MS IBD is best,
not sure why you have ER in there, either you want to do banking or ER, if you want to do banking then why would you consider ER ahead of any other BB IBD slots?
interested in ultimately going to a HF, and I know you can get there w/ IB or ER, plus IB jobs seem more plentiful than research jobs from an on-campus recruiting perspective. obviously the jobs very different but i think you learn a lot of the same modeling skills in both
Get the offers first, then rank.
I call BS, most those firms ended interviews a while ago. there's no way ur "interviewing", at least not for citi.
ok yes fembotma you're right. i have an offer at citi and am interviewing with the others.
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