Sanford C. Bernstein (AB) Electronic Trading Desk

Hi all,

I was wondering on the general opinion of non-IB, agency only S&T desks. I'm about to apply to fulltime trading positions and was wondering about how different it is from BB S&T and how exit ops will look compared to them.

Thanks

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