Going to BB IB/ER without IB/ER internship
Is it totally impossible to get into BB IB/ER with only PE, Big 4 Deal Advisory and management consulting internship?
It can be US and East Asia (i.e. Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, Korea, Taiwan)
Is it totally impossible to get into BB IB/ER with only PE, Big 4 Deal Advisory and management consulting internship?
It can be US and East Asia (i.e. Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, Korea, Taiwan)
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As long as the task is relevant to IB, it helps. Even if its an arms length away from M&A just market yourself well and its still possible.
I see people go IB full time from summer analyst so i just wonder
Yeah Finance Internship -> Summer IB Internship -> Fulltime IB is the most trodden path. Economy sucks rn and im sure there are a shit ton of laid off bankers right now trying to move around so itll be really hard to break in tbh.
Very true. I heard big 4 deal advisory is in worse situation though
Gonna be super hard to do ER because ER grad cohorts are tiny. And usually hire exclusively from the internship.
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