Boutique Capital Markets vs. Mid-sized Corp. Finance for the summer
I'm a college junior in the process of weighing my summer offers, and it's come down to
1) A boutique (150 employees) investment bank. I would be working with the Capital Markets Group, mostly pitching and executing the capmarkets functions for s&p500 companies.
2) A mid-sized (4,000 employees) high-tech company. I would be working in the FP&A group.
Assuming hours and pay are equal, and that neither will convert interns into full-timers, which do you guys think is the better career move? Thanks.
edit: in the long term, i hope to end up in a vc or pe focused on technology, which has always been an interest of mine
What do you want to do with your career?
not really sure yet, but i'm naturally interested in the tech sector, possibly hoping to end up in a tech-focused PE or VC.
at this point though, i think i should take the position that would offer the widest opportunities down the line
I would lean towards the high-tech company...but it's a close call imo.
does your school have decent OCR? if so, i think i'd take the fp&a job, given your short-term and long-term goals. if not, i still lean ever-so-slightly toward the fp&a job, but be aware you'll need to do a lot more networking to land interviews in the fall without "IB" experience on your resume
i take it that ocr means on campus recruiting? yes, i think we do. i go to an ivy league school; all the bulge brackets and some large hedge funds recruit here every term, and hire a handful of interns / full timers.
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