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Almost certainly yes.
full time MBA associate positions are usually done by September/ max October.
Your best bet would be to target one off positions in smaller boutiques and regional banks which would be more open to not going through a ‘formal’ process. However you are at a disadvantage regardless due to no IB internship or prior finance experience
one thing in your favor is that IBs are still desperate for talent so if someone talks well and appears sorted, they could get traction.
im curious to know why you are interested now? Even if you were a first year MBA student you would have missed all the recruiting processes by now. So what’s the motivation all of a sudden? If it’s purely money then I would suggest you to focus more on consulting. Those pay well too. Yes, definitively discount on IB but you’d still be clearing $200k or close to that first year (excl. bonus). More importantly lot of the consulting firms still have formal processes going on at this time and there’s one off positions available too which your background would be an advantage in
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If you have a good tech offer with good prospects then run to that lol.
we’re all trying to get that ourselves haha
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