Who is the oldest Intern/Analyst you know ?
Is there an unofficial/ maybe official, age limit for analysts? I am not talking about previous working experience. I had some problems after i finished school, change my studies etc.
Im 24, with 3 semester and a mandatory internship left. I have worked at a private equity boutique as a working student. I had an internship at credit suisse in Investment banking last year. Not from a target school in Europe. I feel like i am too old to be honest.
Starting FT this summer at 24, and I know others my age/ a little older that are either international/ did military before/ misc. I would say there are older analyst transfers with work experience but they usually come in as An2/3
Me. Starting FT at BB this summer, and will turn 27 later this year.
Took an extra year to finish BSc because of uni transfer and an extra semester abroad. After graduation I worked in a BO role for a year before getting accepted to target MSc, and delayed graduation because I wanted extra internship experience.
How do you relate to peers as 27 year old?
Sorry, what do you mean? Same way as if I was 25/23/21 - by being a likeable person. The difference is between me and my peers are smaller than you seem to think, especially since we are doing the same things (IB) for +70hrs every week. In addition, I can just as easily shoot the shit with my associates who are my age.
I think there was a guy a year after me at MoCo who was like 30 and married and started as a first year analyst. Now I think he’s a Baupost. Scratch that. He was just married
Damn so there’s hope. Vet?
Maybe there was another guy who had an MBA from ASU and was Analyst. So maybe he was closer to 30. I think now he is a senior corporate guy doing like Corp dev in healthcare. Good guy
I have a few Korean friends who did mandatory military service for a few years and started FT in their mid-20s. Beyond that there’s a bunch of ex-military people in banking so I don’t think it’s anything unusual, even at the analyst level.
Fair enough. Same with Singapore ppl too prob
I was a first year analyst at 27.
Good for you
BB?
Knew a senior analyst in his mid-30s. Definitely had a weird chip on his shoulder.
That’s ok
Know someone who did their SA at 27 and is was an analyst at 28-30
Bb?
Me. I'm quite old for an analyst (27), even in Europe, due to me fucking around in Bachelors too much (like, on the internet - I did not actually get pussy in uni). Due to attending a target and getting lucky, I secured a spot at a T3 in Frankfurt (my team is No.2 in our sector and size worldwide, but the company itself is fairly low-key). I love the job and get paid fairly well, also our deals are looking good, but of course I feel like I missed out on a lot in life by being autistic.
We have AN1 of 30 y/o in the team, guess as long as you are fine “reporting” to younger people you are fine
Me: 31 as SA will be 32 starting FT at an EB
How is this possible?
Finishing undergrad super late. Everyone takes a different path homie.
Knew a guy that was 30. He came from some type of debt fund and instead of going for an MBA, he got recruited as an Analyst in the LevFin team.
A guy was 28 in our SA class. I did my SA when I was 24
Wouldn't worry about age. During one of my banking internships, a fellow intern was 26. When I did my masters, several fellow students were 26-27 by the time they were finished in school. Currently in PE and all my VPs are around 30 but still acting like they are 20.
i feel like it’s more common to see older analysts in europe than in the US
Yah I'll be almost 30 doing my SA, almost 31 after graduation. I think there are a lot more non-traditional students than people realize, fair amount of people in my classes who took 2-3 gap years in the middle of their undergrad, or took time off after highschool to work/military/travel. Certainly more than I was expecting when I started school.
Haven't had any issues working with other students in school or during other internships/labs, so I'm not expecting any to magically appear during work. I know someone else asked about relating to peers/coworkers/classmates when you're older but in the same spot, and I think as long as you don't have some weird ego thing it should be unnoticeable, minus some of the worries that come with being younger.
Age is a major asset. Never felt the true extent of it until I worked long hours with them, but 21 yo kids are basically children. They're terrified of the "grownup" D/MDs haha
I think people are understating non-IB divisions like ER, AM, HF where progression is flat af and everyone just calls themselves 'analyst' until they make sector head/ PM/ etc. ESPECIALLY equity research, you see old af people in their 40s seemingly content calling themselves 'analyst' and sharing the same external job title as a new 22 y/o. People having made VP at say GS GIR then doing an MBA then becoming 'analyst' at an AM. I know it's the internal titles, experience and pedigree that matters, but like, don't these people have at least some ego that doesn't sit well with being 'analyst' in their 30s? Especially after having been associate or even VP pre-MBA
Yeah, I feel bad for those Investment Analysts at big Hedge Funds who get paid $1m+, but have to live with the shame of being called an Analyst. Lmfao! Please go outside, and touch and eat some f*cking grass.
well i was genuinely curious into this lol. I would've thought people would gladly take title inflation - isn't this form of delayering second nature in IB, with thousands of VPs at a BB. I would think people would prefer having a VP title that doesn't rlly mean anything - studies have shown people like feeling better in relation to their peers
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