Fulltime lateral ANL / ASSO offer pulled due to not being DEI (Asian Male)

I recently completed interviewing for a lateral analyst / associate position at a top BB / EB in NY, finished a multi-week technical case study and was extended an official verbal offer to join the team (was sent offer letter not yet countersigned). Two days after my verbal offer was extended I received a call and was verbatim told by the team staffer / manager "You were our top candidate both technically and in terms of culture fit, unfortunately we have a soft mandate from HR to only hire DEI candidates and / or woman, hence we cannot extend you an offer to our group at this time and will be moving in a different direction" and my offer was essentially rescinded. 

After a certain point, why do these banks and PE firms even waste everyone's time including the employees? They should openly just post on their career sites that they do not want to hire middleclass Asian / White males in order to save everyone time. Has anyone else experienced a recruitment situation similar to this or am I an anomaly case here? I'm really surprised there haven't been any major discrimination lawsuits cases on this matter given that if DEI recruiting never existed, every Asian + White candidate (non-nepotism) would be in a better and more favorable spot career-wise. 

Not sure how it's benefitting anyone that these firms prefer to hire some chick or minority who attended a $75K a year private school like Deerfield Academy / Andover / Hotchkiss over the children of first-generation Asian parents from Flushing Queens like myself in the name of diversity. Before you say "stop whining you were not good or charismatic enough" -- I was told verbatim by multiple people after receiving an verbal offer that I was a strong culture fit / everyone enjoyed speaking about sports with me / went to a well represented target school / had a solid GPA etc.

It's gotten to the point were these firms literally set hard racial parameters to prevent Asian / white males from getting in despite being desired candidates on a merits basis both technically and culturally. I have even seen DEI candidates get MF offers on-cycle without even doing a model test or some semblance of technical vetting. Before anyone says "but but but, Nepotism hires are an issue!", keep in that (a) nepotism is based on your parents success regardless of your race or sexual orientation, therefore anyone can one day achieve nepotism provision capabilities to their children / family and (b) nepotism processes are run more subtle vs DEI processes that are literally marketed only to certain groups on company career sites.

Hopefully this new presidential administration eliminates these programs fully from both the public / private sector and brings things back to a more merit driven environment. Thoughts on what I should do moving forward?

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I want to know when the SEC will step in and put an end to it. Fund performance has steadily decreased over the years, and it would be foolish to claim that none of this hit has come from swamping teams with unqualified candidates to meet DEI quotas. Anyone who works with a DEI hire understands that said person hinders the team as everyone else needs to pick up the slack. LPs, GPs, and the general public that rely on their pensions have been hurt by these practices.

 

Issue is political left or right are equally woke when it comes to DEI. The left’s affinity to DEI is self-explanatory, however, the right won’t abolish it as main beneficiaries of gender quotas are white women. Look at the board and various reports of evil organizations like this VersaFi and you will find your clues. They don’t want equality, they want more power / rewards but with far less effort. 

 

OP here - I spoke to a senior associate on the team, and he agreed with me that technically what they're doing by pulling an offer based on race isn't actually legal, but given the amount of resources, lawyers and corporate mumbo-jumbo + race-supportive stats they can spew it's basically impossible for me to actually do anything about it. Everyone with 1/10th of a brain knows that DEI is discriminatory towards Asians and yet nothing ever gets done and it's often applauded.

 

They won’t do anything because it mainly benefits white women. Remember from a racial perspective, if white males have to cede power in corporate hierarchy, they would rather do it women (mostly white) rather than non DEI male of color. The largest victims of DEI are non-Nepo whites and non-DEI males of color ie asian and brown 

 
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No chance an employee would be stupid enough to tell a candidate they didn't get the role because they need a DEI candidate. 

 
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No chance an employee would be stupid enough to tell a candidate they didn't get the role because they need a DEI candidate. 

The Senior Associate and VP that I had conversations with were the same race as me and told me in an un-official way in confidence. Clearly they feel the frustration of DEI vicariously through a younger version of themselves who fighting to build a better life for their immigrant family (Me). To clarify, the VP didn't type a literal email to me saying "sorry we pulled your offer because we're not allowed to hire an Asian / White male without client serving interests".

On a separate note, I love how your counterargument to my post is "No one was stupid enough to tell you" -- you're affirming that discrimination against over-qualified asian men happens all the time, and you're arguing if / how I found out that it happened in the first place.

You're an absolute cope of a woke soy boy and hope you're ready to cry on Jan 20th. 

 

Can personally attest to this. I was laid off few years back as Senior Associate sighting low deal flow despite strong official performance reviews and after being told that am on track few months earlier. Two seniors communicated few days later (through a 3rd person) to explain that I was pushed out to promote a female associate to meet HR’s mandated gender quota and that MDs will never disclose it for legal reasons. Funny enough, the newly promoted female VP was not competent (already was rated lower than me) and bailed on the team 4 months later for better WLB, by then, I was already working for a better bank. Don’t worry OP, you will do well despite this garbage DEI policy. 

 

Sorry this happened to you man. Realistically not much you can do without going public/ harming your career

This DEI stuff has gone way too far - the girls and URMs at my bank were so useless and the rest of the team had to pick up their slack

 

Honestly want to hit my head against the wall after reading this. I would have lost it. I’m a liberal/left on most issues but thank god Trump won. Keep going.

 

So unfair. Sad to hear. What are you going to do? Did you already renege from your other associate offer?

Well I thankfully hadn't resigned from my current MM IB seat yet, but I am hoping to lateral into a top BB / EB as a senior ANL or ASSO 1 so I can recruit for top funds on-cycle in a year or so. Good thing here is that my floor isn't that low since I was able to keep my job, but my ceiling is capped as the offer I got screwed out of was a "top MF feeder" group.

 

An interesting work of fiction that totally happened. Hopefully January 20 accelerates faster so that troll posts like these would become less substantiated once DEI is disincentivised

 

OP here -- What makes you think this post is made up or fiction? From my understanding group quotas and race based offers are extended all the time. The only difference is that someone was nice enough to tell me internally, and I'm sharing on this forum to advocate for my peers in my same ethnic group / race who need to work 50X as hard as the Deerfield Academy / Andover Becky's to get 1/20th of the results.

 

Oh boohoo you grew up in flushing queens, a neighborhood of the world’s financial hub, I bet it was hard to get a job a few miles away from home.

Asian guys are not the only ones that have it hard, you will learn. People tend to assume Asian and white people are qualified, and the rest of us aren’t. Despite not getting this offer, sounds like you are in a good place and benefitted throughout your life so stop crying and keep it moving.

 

This bro, its genuinely unreal how bad it is for asian men rn. It makes me feel suicidal even after getting a top offer bro. We deadass have to throw away hs cause we need at least a 1570 to have a good shot at a target, then a 4.0 in college where Becky shafts us again and now this. I am legit considering just switching industries for fulltime at this point bro. Fuck this

Edit: Also that senior associate and vp are bitch-made, I don't care if it affects their jobs. I hope they get passed up for the D/MD promotion by Becky bro. If I ever get that high up, I am going to bat for the Asian guy. Half the reason this shit happens is because we keep taking it like good boys.

 

Plus competing against every rich asian international student who’s shelling out $40k to learn how to walk through an LBO and act normal on a coffee chat. 

 

Sucks man – also an Asian dude from NYC and it's rough out here. Just know that your ability and grit will take you farther in the long-run than anyone who got a head start due to factors outside of your control. Don't be discouraged and keep it pushing. 

 

This is cope bro. Grit doesn't mean shit. I am not even hating on you, but this is a bad argument to justify discrimination. We should be upset and change the system. If you don't get into finance because of the quota system, you can be as gritty as you want, but Becky will start at 200k and you might be stuck in some financial analyst position making 80k. Then Beckys gets an on-cycle offer and they keep her because they need female leadership. So at 35, when some carry is paid out Becky is worth a couple million thanks to compounding. You maybe can come close with an MBA, but odds are you won't even be making 250 in a regular corp job with how dogshit the market is (ofc there are outliers, you can start a business and become a billionaire somehow). So now, even though you've quantitatively outperformed Becky, odds are she's still richer than you. Your starting point is not everything, but it matters a lot and they are legit handing out 6 fig jobs to some of most debilitated double digit bimbos ik.

 

Not so much cope as it is the fact that I can not change anything. What could I even do? This is the career we chose to work in. I understand your frustration, but lets be real – Becky is not getting carry at 35 unless she's at least somewhat competent at the job. Ignore the title – I come from probably one of the worst possible schools in terms of prestige/ difficulty of admission/ classes vs. IB placements and I'm currently still on the so called "golden path." Additionally, If you look at any incoming class, at least half of them are pale skinned dudes. You just have to beat the rest of them out. Sure, there's less supply and the barrier of entry is higher, but you're making it sound like its completely impossible. 

To your point, why do you think the job market is "dogshit?" How about '08 or even '22? Do you understand you can lateral in a good market? According to your posts you seem to have made it to BB M&A so I don't really understand why you have this perspective either.

 

Rage bait. No employee will say you didn't get the job because of your skin color. If you decided to record the call and sue it would be the end of their career. I'm diverse and lost jobs to rich asian immigrants and rich white men. It sucks but I'm not wasting my energy blaming the system. It just means I need to get better and keep looking until something I'm a good fit for is open. If you aren't willing to compete go into accounting.

You are right about one thing though. Diversity programs are filled with privileged minorities. I met one whose family member had a "spare" luxury condo in Manhattan that they lived in. And multiple people whose parents were both lawyers and doctors. The people who are truly underprivileged still have to work twice as hard.

If you were such a great candidate then you should have no problem getting a job. If the team really liked you reach out and ask them for help finding something. Everyone knows somebody.

 

BuySideIntern

Rage bait. No employee will say you didn't get the job because of your skin color. If you decided to record the call and sue it would be the end of their career. I'm diverse and lost jobs to rich asian immigrants and rich white men. It sucks but I'm not wasting my energy blaming the system. It just means I need to get better and keep looking until something I'm a good fit for is open. If you aren't willing to compete go into accounting.

You are right about one thing though. Diversity programs are filled with privileged minorities. I met one whose family member had a "spare" luxury condo in Manhattan that they lived in. And multiple people whose parents were both lawyers and doctors. The people who are truly underprivileged still have to work twice as hard.

If you were such a great candidate then you should have no problem getting a job. If the team really liked you reach out and ask them for help finding something. Everyone knows somebody.

OP here and you're an absolute woke cope of a clown.

1) I love how you have to caveat your lost jobs to "rich Asian immigrants and rich white men" and you didn't even mention if they were qualified or not. Whenever you hear Asian / White men upset at not getting an offer, it's because they see egregiously underqualified candidates get offers thrown in their face. The ONLY way to get an offer as an Asian male is to be extremely technically qualified. Furthermore, it's statistically more likely that people would lose jobs to Asians in general because the culture of our ethnic group values academics from an extremely early age over almost any other ethnic group. Also all Asians / Indians came here with nothing and faced essentially as much racism as other ethnic groups and over decades of hard work / resiliency have risen to the highest points of Tech / Finance

2) Everyone loses jobs to "rich / well connected" candidates of all races, do you really expect these people's parents and families to not help their children? Yes statistically this is likely going to be white people, but Asians have proven that anyone can work hard to provide connections to their kids on a merits basis. The issue we have with DEI is that there is literally a parameter against hiring us and you can use my recent experience as an example

3) You claim "I'm not wasting my energy blaming the system" -- I'm not sure what you're talking about because depending on your demographic there are entire movements and billions of dollars in woke corporate donations dedicated to helping black and Hispanic people get hand out of jobs. Based on your name "buyside intern" it's safe to say you got a softball DEI internship in the first place and therefore you were literally hired based on your race and if you were an Asian male like me you wouldn't even have your current career trajectory.

4) Us Non-nepotism Asian / white males aren't asking for special treatment. We're just asking for the rules to not be fully filtered against us. I basically was unofficially told that a top-BB group couldn't extend me an formal offer (after receiving a verbal one) due to an HR mandate that doesn't allow for my demographic to be hired. I already am a top performer at a solid MM bank and had to work substantially harder than all my peers to get here, but the rules / HR parameters are fully skewed in a way were I could cure cancer overnight and will still be overlooked for a Hamptons Home Becky

Hope you enjoy your DEI internship while it lasts, January 20th is approaching very quickly...

 

You're not white! Stop bucketing yourself with them when it comes to recruiting. White men have an insane amount of privileges that you do not have. Not all Asians come here with nothing. What the hell are you talking about? People with nothing don't rent luxury apartments or have their parents cover their full tuition at NYU.

And no, you did not face as much racism as other groups. This is just as ridiculous as Meghan Markle saying she faced racism because she's black. I'm over ten times as likely as you to get shot by police and have a 30% chance to go to prison in my life. Yet I managed to stay out of trouble, graduate with nearly a 4.0, get two junior year internship offers, and four full time offers. Quit coping, just admit you're not good enough. One day you'll realize that no matter how much you pray on your knees to Daddy Trump you'll never be white.

 

In this case, it’s actually not so far fetched to think that you could get some justice. You have multiple people who told you this happened. If you reported to an ethics hotline or escalated it in another way, the two people who corroborated would face the choice of either telling the truth or lying and trusting that the other will lie too. 

 

Why is my above anecdote not believable???

It's extremely well documented that staffers and hiring managers are told to not hire Asian / White males all the time, the only difference in this scenario is that I formed a meaningful relationship with the managers, received the offer and was later told why the offer was pulled and I was put on the waitlist. It literally happens all the time and everyone sees it on the day to day. 

 

if it's any consolation to all the non-white males, my F500 has probably the most broad DEI program - female and POC (anyone non-white essentially). asian male here, i joined to take a promo from Sr Director to VP, probably something that would've taken me 3 more years had i stayed at my prior corporation. been here a little over year and rated high potential/high performer in current role so definitely not underqualified but being POC certainly accelerated things. i think the female POC here is a unicorn. not sure how much longer this will last given the recent backlash on corporate DEI programs but at the least buys me a bit more job security. sorry to hear for the OP and others in the same boat but keep grinding away, put yourself in a good position and some luck will turn your way at some point. 

 

Yeah I highly doubt that actually was said verbatim. It would be career suicide for a senior banker to admit that full stop to some candidate EVEN IF IT WERE the case.

Plus, I’ve been in these discussions, they do mention preference to DEI when it’s en vogue, but no HR legally can not mandate us to hire a truly subpar candidate simply because they’re DEI. Maybe the person you talked to actually liked you more but you two were comparable technically and in that case they got the edge because of DEI.

 

Nice try adding a spin to it. These discussions usually occur among VP+ and HR, excluding A&A. Yes, HR does force teams’ to prefer women to meet bank’s gender targets. Given it’s banking and not rocket science, their argument is that you can coach these female A&A candidates so performance shouldn’t be a key differentiating factor otherwise bank will never meets its gender targets. 

 

@Liquidiot - How is it career suicide?? They specifically said it was HR mandated and that if it was their preference they would have chosen the clear cut merit hire (being me the asian male). Even then, you're question if someone had the balls to told me, regardless of someone telling me or not, you're not even disputing that HR quotas against middle-class white / asian men happens ALL THE TIME. Are you for group quotas or are you for merit? 

If your really think woman / URMs are as qualified to compete against middle class asians who have neither DEI or Nepotism, put your money were your mouth is and abolish DEI programs all together. Exactly, you know they won't be able to but you'll continue to take your handouts.

 

Everyone, it's time to speak up. I've been pretty quiet about all of this unfairness for a long time, but it has become so bad in recent years, that I decided to speak up. You'd be surprised how many people disagree with those policies (including lots of people who I believed to be benefitting)!

Woke has become an internet phenomenon. A similar scenario is that online, lots of people are throwing around insults, whereas in real life, the exact same people are shy, sometimes even nice, and can barely open their mouth. I found out, "everyone" agreeing with DEI is not real; sure, companies are pushing this hardcore (who frankly don't give a damn about anyone about you, they just follow the money), but this online "majority" does not translate in real life (plus most of the time it's irrelevant people anyway who speak wholeheartedly about this, as if their life depends on it). So go out (in real life) and speak up!

Further, I cut out everyone from my life who, despite experiencing DEI unfairness with their own eyes (and seeing people suffering as a result), did not speak up. In my view, this is as bad as committing the crime itself. And to be absolutely clear, hiring someone based on gender or race is obviously illegal. I know, this fact has maybe not been obvious any more to many, as employers have become so direct and lost any shame in telling you that it's the gender why you will not be considered. So, similar when in a situation where someone gets bullied, step in and speak up!

Ok I didn't want this to be much of a rant, but I hope that meritocracy will prevail, as I strongly believe it will favour ALL of us, regardless of race, gender, and god-knows-what-else. In the end, all of us need to understand that firms do not care about any race/ gender of us specifically - they just follow the money. Yesterday, investors preferred ESG. Today, investors prefer certain races and genders. And god knows, what it will be tomorrow. You might benefit today, but can be targeted and fu**ed tomorrow. Which is why the only way to prevent that is to speak up now - all of us.

 

It's tough at larger institutions, esp if publicly traded. However there are activists like Edward Bluhm and Robby Starbuck that are working very hard to eliminate this DEI nonsense. With the supreme court ruling on AA and likely a ruling on post-grad hires coming in next ~5yrs + Trump victory, there is multi-year momentum to massively degrade DEI. Maybe in one analogy here, it was an unwanted midget that grew to the size of Bigfoot over Covid and is now back to average height. It's returning to life of dwarfism soon enough

Did you see the Harvard Law acceptance stats recently? See article below, it's already becoming way more meritocratic 

https://www.foxnews.com/media/black-enrollment-harvard-law-tanks-more-t…

 

Personally, I find your story hard to believe. 

Not the part about them refusing to hire you because you're Asian, but because they told you the reason. 

And frankly, as someone already working in the industry, we have never been told to NOT hire asian/white men. We are just told to shortlist/rank everyone who meet the threshold, and then women/minorities will be pushed for the roles. 

As someone who meets those criterias (Asian/White male), i actually push for those guys to get an offer, especially the ones from the non-ivy/non-target/no connections background who are smart and are hungry - because i've seen how high the odds are stacked against them. 

 

If this is real, get counsel ASAP and subpoena that call from the carrier. You just got one of the cleanest Title 7 cases of the modern century.

 

You say that, and yet every firm basically has a "launching leaders" summit where only DEI candidates can attend and basically guarantee a SD. It's not unreasonable for a personal relationship to come clean and let OP know.

 

Anyone that has ever been on a hiring committee knows that different people have their favorites. 

Taking at face value that an associate told you this in confidence, you need to take what was said with a high degree of skepticism. 

Likely you were his favorite, but that does not mean you were everyone's. He could be over stating the DEI impact, the hiring decision could be above his pay grade, he could be annoyed bc what he thought was inferior but other thought was superior won out. Lots of different things at play here behind the scenes. 

Point being stop the pity party rant because there is likely more to the story. 

The good news is, you appear to be smart and perform well in interview and thus will likely end up getting another similar role. 

Reality is, regardless of DEI blame shifting, there are just so few spots and so many qualified candidates that good qualified candidates will always lose out given the math. 

 

I understand what you're saying. At the same time, I believe OP is NOT upset that he did not receive the offer, what happened from my understanding was completely different. He literally received an offer and was even sent an official letter over Docusign and then the team proceeded to rescind the offer. He was told by the VP who was his advocate during the interview process essentially off the record that the reason for them rescinding the offer was because they hadn't hit their DEI target and didn't have enough seats for non-DEI professionals.

I understand that it could have been the case that OP wasn't everyone's favorite which he should come to terms with, but in this case he actually received the offer both verbally and in hard copy and they literally couldn't go through with it because of an HR mandate to not hire anymore Asian males. I am not one to make us Asians a victim or throw a "pity party" and OP already seems to have a seat at a solid MM firm.

With that said, how is it okay that these firms literally have a DEI parameter in place? We could literally win them a client and cure cancer overnight and some Lauren / Rachel's in HR won't allow for us to be hired. Oh well, plenty of other top PE feeders that OP can continue to interview at worst case.

 
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Anyone that has ever been on a hiring committee knows that different people have their favorites. 

Taking at face value that an associate told you this in confidence, you need to take what was said with a high degree of skepticism. 

Likely you were his favorite, but that does not mean you were everyone's. He could be over stating the DEI impact, the hiring decision could be above his pay grade, he could be annoyed bc what he thought was inferior but other thought was superior won out. Lots of different things at play here behind the scenes. 

Point being stop the pity party rant because there is likely more to the story. 

The good news is, you appear to be smart and perform well in interview and thus will likely end up getting another similar role. 

Reality is, regardless of DEI blame shifting, there are just so few spots and so many qualified candidates that good qualified candidates will always lose out given the math. 

I have been specifically told my our group head this was the reason but he is a mentor and an upstanding guy and told everyone in my referenced straight up that's why and lined up interviews for me. Made a huge difference. 
 

now I'm on the other side and am told we cannot hire demographic x because we have too many we need to interview only women bc of y 

you're not being honest if you claim that's not the case 

 

FWIW this was almost word for word what I was told by an EB when I interviewed for SA positions way back in 2016/2017 (white male). I luckily only went through a few first round interviews with them when they told me though. 

The way the world is - just keep hustling. If you got that far, you can likely get something equally as good at another place. 

 

Yes I was pushed out for that reason in the past too from a pe firm. but everyone was super accommodating: lined up multiple interviews and went to bat and in my references very subtly but clearly hinted they picked someone else for their demographic strength lol so all involved were clear as to what happened and why. Easily landed on my feet at a similar firm

all that to say talented people like you will be fine but yes it's unfair and not everyone will be lucky 

 

I'm going to see it as my personal mission to eliminate DEI in every possible way within my interview processes. Thankfully I don't work at a large bank or a public company so I can make it happen

If HR made it their personal mission to make the organization as trans and black as possible, I'm going to work to offset all of that. I have a bunch of colleagues around the industry that feel the same way and are much more encouraged by both the SCOTUS rulings and the Trump victory who plan to do the same

DEI will die

 

I was looking to get into M&A and interviewed for 7 years. I finally got a really good verbal offer in M&A for a low hours cushy job at a small M&A group. It was literally my dream to work at this firm. The money was astronomical. It was so high that I had to play it cool when receiving the offer. A week later I got a call and they told me the position was promised to an internal employee (girl) and they rescinded the verbal offer before I received a written offer. I'm not sure if it was DEI, but that was pretty rough at the time. The MD was very apologetic and embarrassed and he said the order to rescind the verbal offer came from someone way above him at the company. Damn.

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

A few years back, I was deep in the process for a PE firm (not name-dropping for obvious reasons). The recruiter told me they are advancing only DEI / female candidates to the final round (as mandated by the hiring manager) and that I would be a backup in case none of them get the offer. It happens more than you think (as a former staffer), but it is odd that they extended a verbal offer and had to rescind it. It seems like someone senior snoozed for a bit. 

 

I mean it's really not that hard to believe no? These firms are literally told to lower the standard for Non-Asian / Non Nepo white people. Now you're telling us it's hard to believe? You guys are coping pretty hard.

 
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I mean it's really not that hard to believe no? These firms are literally told to lower the standard for Non-Asian / Non Nepo white people. Now you're telling us it's hard to believe? You guys are coping pretty hard.

Well, it's hard to believe that a sophisticated organization that is always a target for bad publicity would be stupid enough to say "we only hire DEI candidates".

Quite frankly it makes a lot more sense that someone exceeded their authority and offered you a job without approval, or that you misconstrued positive feedback as an offer.

It may very well be the case that people of Asian descent or white people are held to a higher standard (though... it isn't).  Even accepting that, it's STILL harder to believe the story as you've reported it rather than some other, not egregious series of events.

It sounds like you're the one coping.  You weren't the best qualified candidate and your ego can't handle it, so you've invented this story of "woe is me!" discrimination to compensate.

 

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  • Moelis & Company 01 98.8%
  • JPMorgan 01 98.2%
  • Guggenheim Partners 01 97.7%
  • Morgan Stanley 07 97.1%

Overall Employee Satisfaction

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  • Morgan Stanley 01 98.8%
  • Evercore 01 98.2%
  • BMO Capital Markets 12 97.6%
  • Banco Santander 01 97.1%

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  • Intern/Summer Associate (13) $156
  • 1st Year Analyst (75) $151
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