Insight into SF/Bay Area Recruiting?

For those who have wrapped up recruiting or have experience recruiting with this area have some more insight/tips to offer? What are some of the target schools and best groups? If I'm trying to target an industry like tech, how deep/vertical do the questions go? 

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Similar timeline as NY. Would only consider working for GS, MS, JPM, EVR, MOE, LAZ, BofA, Citi, Tidal, JEFF, PWP, WB over most NY gigs, as other banks are pretty bad. EBs go pretty deep with technicals. Targets generally similar to NY firms. Successfully recruited for one of the EBs from an East Coast target.

 

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