Why is Investment Banking Challenging?
What makes investment banking challenging? Besides the long hours? If any current analysts could contribute, I would really appreciate it.
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It's mostly learning to use the non-standard keyboards and using your creativity to create appealing billboards
What kind of fucking keyboard are they making you use!?
Yeah I don't know what kind of bank rynofrowan works at.
The challenging part is being able to build a huge 90 tab M&A model with not even a single mistake.
Most BBs have started using these:
time pressure + attention to detail + unreasonable Associates + Dvorak keyboards
faster than a QWERTY, but sure is a bitch when you wanna go home and goog some porn
sweet keyboard
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he really likes the keyboard...
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