0 Needham & Company - Interview - Investment Banking Data 5y
0 Evercore - Salary & Bonus - Mergers and Acquisitions Data 5y
0 Bank of America Merrill Lynch - Interview - Investment Banking Data 5y
+3 Wharton NO LONGER #1 UNDERGRAD 10 5y
0 Guggenheim Partners - Interview - Investment Banking Data 5y
0 How bad would it be to accept an offer at firm X after already accepting an offer at firm Y? 4 5y
+5 Hard Time Getting Interviews 6 5y
0 Morgan Stanley - Interview - Generalist Data 5y
+52 Hypothetical Renege Situation 30 5y
0 ABN AMRO Group - Review - Mergers and Acquisitions Data 5y
0 Goldman Sachs - Interview - Investment Banking Data 5y
0 Greenhill - Salary & Bonus - Mergers and Acquisitions Data 5y
+30 Is this a good cold email? Freshman Internship? 11 5y
+37 Are Masters Degrees and MBAs going to be mandatory 5-10 years down the line? 22 5y
+30 Battling constant fatigue 23 5y
+248 How to NOT send cold emails 120 5y
+38 Interviews: Mental health issue as an answer for "Why Low GPA?" 23 5y
+42 How to Read Financial News 26 5y
0 Financial Technology Partners - Interview - Investment Banking Data 5y
+17 Target MSc Finance Student | UK | Struggling to Get IB M&A Interviews 4 5y
+9 What is the structured products group in IBD? What's their relationship with structurers in S&T (if any)? 3 5y
0 Boutique Cold Email to Phone Call Questions. 2 5y
0 DZ Bank AG - Review - Mergers and Acquisitions Data 5y
0 What to do now? 0 5y
0 Jefferies Finance LLC - Portfolio and Operations Infrastructure Summer Analyst 2021 0 5y
0 TAS Intern at non-Big 4 vs. Audit Intern at Big 4 2 5y
0 Ending cash of CFS doesn't exactly match the cash in BS in Annual report 2 5y
0 BNP Paribas - Review - Investment Banking Data 5y
+3 Pre-covid how often did you actually go out with other analysts from your bank? 4 5y
0 Hardest adjustment 1 5y
0 Constanly Competing with People Who Have Much More Exp. for IB Roles? 1 5y
0 PJT Partners - Interview - Investment Banking Data 5y
+15 Structured Finance Lateral Analyst Interview 4 5y
0 Does Citi Singapore sponsor visa for non-Singaporeans? 1 5y
+6 What do banks do background checks on for Summer analyst? 14 5y
+6 Goldman Sachs London IBD 11 5y
0 GS vs. EVR 6 5y
0 Case Study - Analysing Different Buyers 0 5y
0 Pass or No Pass for a grade 7 5y
+4 Assume effective tax rate for NOPAT? 4 5y
+31 Are any analysts actually happy? 47 5y
0 Need Help Deciding between FT Partners FT, Macquarie TMT FT 2 5y
+3 Summer 2021 0 5y
0 Financial Technology Partners - Salary & Bonus - Generalist Data 5y
0 Skills and Qualifications: Minimum 4 years IB experience 0 5y
0 LMM IB vs BB S&T? 6 5y
0 Finance Opportunities in LA 4 5y
0 How do you know if you have what it takes to do IB? 1 5y
0 Morgan Stanley - Salary & Bonus - Investment Banking Data 5y
+9 Would it be bad to study abroad for the full junior year? 0 5y
+7 POTUS Exit Opps? 2 5y
0 Working on a Case Study with Comps and Precedent Transactions 1 5y
+7 How long can one stay at SVP/Director level? 5 5y
0 Evercore - Salary & Bonus - NA Data 5y
0 Harris Williams & Co. - Interview - Mergers and Acquisitions Data 5y
+12 Jefferies Hours? Culture? 21 5y
+38 Sleep in Banking 31 5y
+7 Citi 2021 SA IBD Recruiting 16 5y
0 Jefferies A&D Analyst 2 5y
+4 FatFIRE 13 5y
0 In Person Interview 0 5y
0 Morgan Stanley - Salary & Bonus - Investment Banking Data 5y
0 Should I do IBD? 5 5y
0 What to do going forward 0 5y
+10 Spring Internship (PE or IB) 5 5y
0 JMP Group - Interview - Generalist Data 5y
+1 Calculating Enterprise Value of a Private Company? 2 5y
+8 MD Base Compensation 9 5y
0 Lazard Freres - Salary & Bonus - Investment Banking Data 5y
+17 SPACs 6 5y
+15 Which offer should I choose (PWC risk assurance intern vs unpaid Investment intern) 7 5y
0 BMO Capital Markets - Review - Mergers and Acquisitions Data 5y
0 BMO Capital Markets - Salary & Bonus - Mergers and Acquisitions Data 5y
0 Goldman Sachs - Review - Restructuring Data 5y
+19 Credit Suisse Credit Investments Group 19 5y
0 Full-time recruiting from a different geographic location 3 5y
+3 Background checks: need to disclose all spring weeks? 1 5y
+3 What should I know about merchant banking? 0 5y
+34 public finance into investment banking? 11 5y
0 Thanksgiving time off 2 5y
0 National Bank Financial Group - Interview - Generalist Data 5y
0 Side job while in IB? 12 5y
0 BMO Capital Markets - Interview - Generalist Data 5y
+3 Has anyone got a response back from Deutsche bank after doing the SJT? 2 5y
0 Commerzbank AG - Review - Financial Institutions Group (FIG) Data 5y
0 Commerzbank AG - Salary & Bonus - Financial Institutions Group (FIG) Data 5y
+22 Diversity Events After Accepting Offer? 18 5y
+28 Cash is already accounted for within Market Cap. why? 6 5y
+3 Houlihan TMT FT 2021 12 5y
+9 GS FT IBD 2021 13 5y
+11 BO but want to move to FO 6 5y
0 BAML HK IBD 7 5y
+3 Will More Firms Recruit Full-Time in Winter/Spring? 3 5y
0 Greenshoe - Issuer or underwriter's option? 0 5y
+19 Greenshoe - primary or secondary 11 5y
+3 Credit Suisse 2020/21 Edition 6 5y
0 Thoughts on a summer internship in an SBA lending group 0 5y
0 Reneging 6 5y
+118 Why the buyside? 63 5y
0 How does a student from a non-target school break in? 2 5y

Career Advancement Opportunities

October 2026 Investment Banking

  • Evercore 01 99.5%
  • Moelis & Company 01 99.0%
  • JPMorgan 01 98.4%
  • Guggenheim Partners 02 97.9%
  • Morgan Stanley 06 97.4%

Overall Employee Satisfaction

October 2026 Investment Banking

  • Moelis & Company No 99.5%
  • Morgan Stanley 02 99.0%
  • Evercore 01 98.4%
  • Banco Santander 02 97.9%
  • BMO Capital Markets 13 97.4%

Professional Growth Opportunities

October 2026 Investment Banking

  • Evercore 01 99.5%
  • Moelis & Company 01 99.0%
  • Morgan Stanley 05 98.4%
  • Goldman Sachs 01 97.9%
  • JPMorgan No 97.4%

Total Avg Compensation

October 2026 Investment Banking

  • Vice President (16) $429
  • Associates (57) $264
  • 3rd+ Year Analyst (8) $210
  • 2nd Year Analyst (28) $184
  • Intern/Summer Associate (16) $161
  • 1st Year Analyst (84) $151
  • Intern/Summer Analyst (76) $101
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