What are your thoughts on r/financialcareers?
The tone seems a little different than wso, less emphasis on IB and more on other finance careers like corp dev, corp banking, etc.
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Bump. Interested as well
Would agree. Also seems to be a lesser amount of random memes and humor. I can often get a good kick by reading the trending or recently active posts here, can't say the same for r/financialcareers.
r/FC is like the dollar store version of WSO. too many newbs who can't google to save their fucking lives, too much focus on shitty career paths that no one cares about and generally just terrible content in general
-3 / 10 would not recommend visiting.
Exactly. Also need to put up with people saying “thanks for the gold, kind stranger!” etc.
More generalist (pros and cons to this), but also less of an echo chamber than here (ie. IB/PE and PREFTIGE)
lots of poor advice on there tbh
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The point about “questions that would never fly here” is exactly right. People will ask very very retarded questions (“I keep seeing ‘buyside’ - what is that?” or “I love investing. How to get into Investment banking??”)... for some reason, the sub is much more accommodating. Anyone who says “you should probably google that” or “this question gets asked daily” gets shat on HEAVY
in fairness, some of the top posts on WSO this past month have been completely shitting on how miserable IB is right now
Both full of non-targets lol
One is called WallStreetOasis with a heavy focus on, you guessed it, wall street. The other is called r/financialcareers and is based on the wider financial careers field. Who would have thought that the names reflect their communities?
More depressing version of WSO. Instead of banking, the questions are about Wells Fargo call centre or financial advisory...
You also have typical reddit ‘softness’ (for lack of a better term). Any indication that a senior with a 2.9 and no experience from a non-target should consider something other than IB gets heavily downvoted.
The quality of discussion here is much better.
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Im dead this guy say Wells Fargo call centre
They love to shit on IB for some reason.
“I’d rather work 60h/wk in FP&A for $60k than 70h/wk for $150k... so yeah IB bad”
I avoid Reddit like the plague.
FWIW I posted there one time with a legit and thoughtful question and was called a Trump supporting fascist because someone dug deep into my account history and saw I had posted a few comments in a libertarian subreddit. Fucking Reddit man
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