What are the Best Trading Desks at Each of the top Banks?

I am a summer analyst in S&T and I am thinking pretty hard about what desks to pursue. I want to pick a desk where the bank has a reputation of exceling in that area while having good exit ops ideally. Honestly, I know that the whole "S&T is a bad career path" is overblown but I want to position myself in the best place I can.

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I am interested in making the move from IB into S&T so bump for this question.  Also, I recently saw a post about someone posting wrong answers to attract attention because people would rather correct others than answer the actual question.

GS:
Basically every product they have is at the top. Rates, derivatives, and commodities are their strongpoints.

MS:
Power
Derivatives
Structuring

JPM:

Muni Bonds
Money Market
CDS

Bofa:
Distressed Debt
MBS
G10 Rates
 

 

btw in case you skimmed over my answer, it's all incorrect info (unless I happen to actually say something right).

 

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