Career Advice

Second-year analyst at a top bulge bracket in a regional hub. Part of an underrepresented group, non-target background. Feel like I've been made an example of why we don't hire people from non-target schools/minorities in the office, staffings were a lot lighter than peers in my class and was blamed on lack of deal flow, hence I tried to be optimistic and take whatever I got as unactionable some of these materials/pitches were.  Mid-year review had absolutely no real feedback, and specifically asked about staffing said "I drew short end of the stick".   Bonus was mid-bucket range.  A little over a year in, have only done one merger model, and never staffed on several entire sub-sectors within the industry.  Got asked to do an acquisition financing cap table for the first time a couple of weeks ago. Any advice?

Option I - lateral to another firm as I would like to get 2 years of real experience, however I don't want to burn any bridges

Option II - recruit for PE / corp dev and try and get out as quick as possible