Citi NYC or BAML NYC for S&T summer internship?

Hi everyone, just got offers from both Citi NYC and BAML NYC for S&T summer internship. Would like to know more about how strong each is, culture at the two banks, and also the return rates. Anyone with some ideas? Would really appreciate any sharing!

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Culture is great at both. BAML is strong in equity and MBS/certain fixed income products. Citi is strong in macro primarily with strengths in certain other desks here and there. I'd take BAML just because I spent a week or two on their trading floor shadowing and loved the people I met.

Had buddies intern at both respectively last summer, both did get FT offers. One is heading back to Citi FT and the other BAML one is actually going to work for a credit hedge fund out of undergrad so he turned down the FT position.

Can't go wrong, congrats on both!

 

He honestly got super lucky. BAML's internship for S&T is a bit weird, instead of 3 rotations you pretty much do 2 and then for the 3rd portion of the internship you pick one of those two that you liked and continue to do that for the last third of the summer, ideally to which you'll get a FT offer on that desk. He did those 2 rotations on a credit trading desk, must've crushed it.

Essentially the fund he went to was virtually all alums from his school and they typically hire one kid from the school every year or so, he ended up being that kid.

That in mind, there's a ton of stuff on this forum in how to get to the buy-side out of UG (that isn't through direct alum connections).

 

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