+16 Is carbon trading dying? 6 3y
+16 Networking with "competitors" 8 3y
+16 2023 APAC S&T SA MEGATHREAD 21 3y
+16 New analyst - but no "passion for the markets" yet? 7 2mo
+16 Getting paid jack squat - gotta stack up at renewal 2 3y
+16 Owning Ships as a career 7 3y
+16 Crypto Trading at a prop firm 2 3y
+16 Structuring vs Sales 8 3y
+16 Equity Derivatives 8 3y
+16 Strategy for Choosing Desks S&T SA 9 3y
+16 Exposure&Exit opportunity JPM structured Equity Financing 8 2y
+16 Is supply chain management beneficial? Specifically in physical trading? 3 3y
+16 Georgetown MSB or WashU Olin? 4 2y
+16 trafigura apprenticeship 10 2mo
+16 Felony Record about to be expunged advice on how to get into IB or S&T? 6 2y
+16 What are technical Skills I can foster as a Sales? 4 2y
+16 ELI5 - What do (prop) traders do 2 2y
+16 [London] Sales and Trading (S&T) SA 2024 7 2y
+16 Incoterms - Glencore/Trafigura Interview Prep 5 2y
+16 Drinking in Sales 2 2y
+16 resume writing for trading 3 2y
+16 Del 6 2y
+16 Best Desks in GS Fixed Income 7 2y
+16 FX STIR Trading 11 2y
+16 SPG Sales Comp 6 2y
+16 Quant skills improvement advice 3 2y
+16 Trading at Louis Dreyfus 8 2y
+16 Job security in Prop Trading? 3 2y
+16 delete 7 2y
+16 RT Trading in UK Prospects and Career Path 2 2y
+16 Networking Advice? 6 2y
+16 Institutional Sales/Trading at Quant Firms 6 2y
+16 FX Traders Are Being Replaced by Algos - Bloomberg 8 1y
+16 Lead trader / head of desk compensation 4 1y
+16 How is a Repo Trader’s performance gauged? 7 1y
+16 Power trader progression 5 1y
+16 Senior traders at investment banks? 6 1y
+16 Debating between two offers -- fixed income and commodities 10 1y
+16 S&T Exit Opps 6 1y
+16 Prop-Shops -> Trade for a Living or Join a Trading Team? 6 1y
+16 Need S&T Recruiting Help 6 1y
+16 Power Trading: Virts/FTRs to Longer Term 8 1y
+16 Value in going to a small bank 4 1y
+16 Offers from MS, GS, Citi and JPM for SA S&T, may renege. 18 1y
+16 Summer Interview Preparation for 2nd round ? 5 1y
+16 Goldman Sachs summer 2026 updates 25 1y
+16 BofA 2026 SA updates? (US) 44 1y
+16 JPM vs MS S&T 12 1y
+16 UK: Swithcherooni into Sales and Trading from Engineering, LSE Finance 2 1y
+16 Best Quant / Data Science Courses 6 1y
+16 Python Skills for Structured Products SnT or Research (RMBS, CMBS, CMO, CLOs, etc.) 9 4mo
+16 S&T MD reached out for Coffee Chat to "get to know me better". How to prepare? 8 1y
+16 JP Morgan Markets Superday: April 24th 17 1y
+16 Bank of America S&T Supday 5/1 48 2mo
+16 Early Graduation After SA 7 1y
+16 Central Banking or Power Trading 4 11mo
+16 Stress/ Burn out - traders, brokers,PM 6 10mo
+16 Citi VP offer negotiation (London) 8 9mo
+16 How Do You Trade from a Heavily Crowded Institutional Investor Position Subject to Strict Risk Management? 3 8mo
+16 Sales and Trading VS. IB path? - Target School Freshman asking. 7 7mo
+16 Exotics Trading 6 4mo
+16 Wait For Other Offers or Let First Offer Explode? 4 4mo
+16 Barclays S&T vs BofA S&T vs Credit Research 5 4mo
+16 UT McCombs vs Middlebury College 21 2mo
+16 Wells Fargo Summer 2027 vs BNP Paribas Sales & Trading Internship 12 2mo
+16 Quickest way to take risk 9 17h
+15 Average Career Length of a Trader... 16 19y
+15 Barclays S&T First Round 5 17y
+15 Morgan Stanley Super Day 18 9y
+15 Do SAs in S&T actually do any trading? 14 14y
+15 Fundamental trader career vs. quant trader career... 4 15y
+15 Optiver vs SIG 8 6y
+15 Email Format For Goldman Sachs Recruiters 34 7y
+15 Credit Suisse CS S&T SA Interviews 14 16y
+15 Funny Tradingfloor Stories 27 8y
+15 BAML GCL vs. BC S&T, which is better? 10 16y
+15 Quantitative Trading rankings 5 6y
+15 Traders at bbs - why not just trade your own acct? 7 16y
+15 Productive use of my time 5 16y
+15 Help: Exotics Sales Associate at BNP/SocGen v Summer Analyst at GS IM 6 6y
+15 Execution trading at a top hedge fund 14 9y
+15 Derivatives vs. Fixed Income vs. Equities Trading 14 9y
+15 Energy trader educational background? 11 6y
+15 Optiver/Tibra vs BB Mental Maths test 13 16y
+15 Sales, Trading, Structuring, Research 5 16y
+15 GS Prinicpal Strategies 14 15y
+15 will i get into trouble? 10 15y
+15 London Based HF's, Prop Shops, and Buy Side Firms 11 6y
+15 Which are more selective for trading applicants BB/HF/Prop shops? 13 15y
+15 Citi Quantitative Analysis & Trading 38 9y
+15 BAC a buy between $10.50 to $11? 10 15y
+15 Offer decision - Two offers 5 6y
+15 Must Read Books for Salespeople 23 8y
+15 quick question-interview attire 7 15y
+15 What do you do as: Equity Sales Summer Analyst? 19 9y
+15 The Euro has a 20% chance of lasting through the decade 12 6y
+15 Swaptions 11 15y
+15 First New York- Questions 9 6y
+15 2nd Round Energy Trading Interview 16 14y
+15 prop trading vs capital one business analyst 5 6y

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June 2026 Investment Banking

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  • Moelis & Company 01 98.9%
  • JPMorgan 01 98.3%
  • Guggenheim Partners 01 97.7%
  • Morgan Stanley 07 97.1%

Overall Employee Satisfaction

June 2026 Investment Banking

  • Moelis & Company No 99.4%
  • Morgan Stanley 02 98.8%
  • Evercore 01 98.3%
  • BMO Capital Markets 12 97.7%
  • Banco Santander 01 97.1%

Professional Growth Opportunities

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  • Moelis & Company 01 98.9%
  • Morgan Stanley 06 98.3%
  • Goldman Sachs 01 97.7%
  • JPMorgan No 97.1%

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June 2026 Investment Banking

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  • Associates (44) $258
  • 3rd+ Year Analyst (8) $210
  • 2nd Year Analyst (22) $179
  • Intern/Summer Associate (13) $156
  • 1st Year Analyst (79) $150
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