Characteristics of S&T desks which are likely to NEED new Analysts every year

Hi, I was wondering if someone could shed light on what attributes certain desks have which require analysts? I.e if very fast paced and flow driven, would analysts always be needed vs something slower, say exotics/SPG which may not need to hire new analyts? Is there any other factors? Or is it really just firm dependent?
Thanks

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Bank dependent, year dependent, budget dependent.

One year a bank may decide they want a bigger commodities presence and therefore the desk needs more junior headcount. 

Another bank may be deciding they're subscale in commodities and want to rationalise this team. 

Obviously over generalizing here but point is it depends on too many factors. Doesn't really matter how "fast" the desk is. If they have enough people, they have enough people.

 

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