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+15 Los Angeles Finance People -- Let's Connect 2 6y
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+38 California Signs Dream Act 30 6y
0 Financing Wall St. Protest 0 6y
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0 "We're Going Streaking!" 4 6y
+13 Finance Jokes? 2 6y
+29 Nicest College Campuses 99 6y
+112 Pull up a seat and lets talk about Oakland 87 6y
+71 40% of STEM majors end up not obtaining a degree in their field 45 6y
+22 How Much Unemployment is Lack of Effort? 3 6y
+21 Buy or Sell: San Francisco Chicks 7 6y
0 Denver Broncos & Tim Tebow 27 6y
+21 smart, cool businesses (not necessarily in finance) 1 6y
+57 Not In My Backyard: are zoning codes CRONY CAPITALISM? (also SF sucks) 21 6y
+16 6-figures on strike? 3 6y
+17 Hawaii Surfing 14 6y
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0 The value of publishing central bank interest rate 1 6y
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+123 WTF California ....... WTF 44 6y
+170 Travel Suggestions – Looking for Experiences 143 6y
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+10 SF Move: Housing? 8 6y
+21 Cant make this shit up... 14 6y
+58 Stupidest financial decision that you've made 90 6y
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0 Potential Exit Opps? 1 6y
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+18 19 out of 20 of all murders in Los Angeles 12 6y
+24 I am not an American 19 6y
0 25 Billion Dollar Settlement Over Alleged Mortgage Abuses 6 6y
0 The Growth of Complex Regulation in America 0 6y
+17 Is the Tech Rush Dead? 2 6y
+15 Every Job Has the Same Purpose 3 6y
+164 The Murder of Shaima Al-Awadi 153 6y
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+37 San Francisco Recommendations 11 6y
+21 Visiting a Friend in Seattle, what to do? 15 6y
0 Surfboard transport: Cali to Europe 6 6y
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+24 Buying a New Computer - Help 8 6y
+89 Google: Your Search Is Over (Part 1) 15 6y
+17 has anyone had work done for Gyno? 10 6y
+17 California Fires! Should you evacuate? How bad is it? 6 6y
+12 Job satisfaction and purpose. And at what cost? 5 6y
0 LACs for Wall St/State Dept. work 5 6y
+94 When do you want to retire? 45 6y
0 Semi Target for Banking 2 6y
+79 Are standardized tests such as the SAT/ACT a good measure of intelligence? 44 6y
+17 Advice for prepping for a finance career in Colorado College 3 6y
+15 what are the best NON-finance UN-jobs you can think of? 4 6y
+32 Super Bowl XLVII: Ravens-49ers 30 6y
+217 Almost 700,000 Californians left the state last year 83 6y
+47 11 Tricks for Perfect Sleep (for you sleep deprived bankers...) 22 6y
0 The Angel of Death - on American soil? 5 6y
+248 PRESIDENT BERNIE SANDERS: a very real possibility 119 6y
+4 Holy Shit Talking Batman, Is Alan Our Star Employee? 4 6y
+46 San Francisco: how bad has it gotten? 18 6y
+15 Is Banking becoming too casual? 15 6y
0 HELLO! 2 6y
0 Flying with Guns into California for our trip -- Anyone with experience? 13 6y
+22 Bespoke Suit San Francisco 7 6y
+47 Denver 75 6y
+11 SF 2020 Housing 4th Roommate needed 7 6y
0 Anyone familiar with the San Fran area? 10 6y
+1 West Coast Tailors 1 6y
+20 COVID-19 Dating tips 5 6y
+28 Social Life in San Fran 6 6y
+27 Goma Or Greta: WHY SUSTAINABLE INVESTING IS HARD 0 6y
+4 San Francisco where to live ( 1br /4K budget) 3 6y
+22 Smartest Colleges in the USA - Princeton is only #39 (D'OH!) 13 6y
+17 Yellow Lamborghini With 1% Vanity License Plate 15 6y
+15 Why the future of a Southern California action sport is in Africa 1 6y
0 Gameplan 5 6y
0 $4MM for 4 days of jailtime 23 6y
+31 Steve Jobs movie 18 6y
0 Funny Wednesday Reads 7 6y
+28 8 Unethical Ways to Get Ahead 26 6y
0 San Fran meetup 11 6y
0 San Francisco Bay Area Investment Professionals 0 6y
0 Anyone tired of the constant tech scene hype? 23 6y
+2 SF PE associate looking for roommate 4 6y
0 November Meetup 3 6y
+88 Is Jeff Bezos the "new" Steve Jobs? 69 6y
0 San Francisco Bay Area Investment Professionals, Bankers, VCs and PE 0 6y
+4 Life in San Diego 5 6y
+12 Where does Wall Street and other industries stand politically? 8 6y
+13 Marijuana Overdoses Kill 37 in Colorado On First Day of Legalization 11 6y
+15 Leveraged Sellout goes to Silicon Valley 7 6y
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+5 San Fran Locals, does stuff like this really happen? 13 6y
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  • Morgan Stanley 07 97.1%

Overall Employee Satisfaction

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  • Evercore No 98.9%
  • Morgan Stanley 01 98.3%
  • BMO Capital Markets 12 97.7%
  • Banco Santander 01 97.1%

Professional Growth Opportunities

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  • Moelis & Company 01 98.9%
  • Morgan Stanley 06 98.3%
  • Goldman Sachs 01 97.7%
  • JPMorgan 01 97.1%

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  • 2nd Year Analyst (22) $179
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  • 1st Year Analyst (79) $150
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