Dealing with Fit Anxiety in a New Group
I am a few weeks away from starting at an EB as a 1st year IB Analyst and I lateralled after 1+ years at a BB within S&T. I'm coming in with an attitude to work extremely hard, and I'm pretty confident that I'll be able to grind away and pick up the work of an IB Analyst with enough time. My past year of experience at the BB was awful, I did not fit in well with the team (which was admittedly known to be toxic within the bank). However, that experience has been somewhat scarring and I want to try to avoid automatically being a target when entering this new group / environment. One good thing is that this new group is known to have a good culture, and isn't as hyper-focused on being a "social butterfly" as a typical S&T group would be. Even though I'm self-admittedly not a social butterfly and can be quite shy at first, people have told me I come across as likeable and personable, but I poignantly remember how shitty it was feeling like the black sheep in a new group and want to try to avoid making any unforced errors as I enter this new group. Any advice on being the new Analyst when you're a bit shy/or might be different from the rest of the group?
What exactly made you a bad fit for your previous role? Did you just feel like you didn’t fit in? Or did people in the group actually say and do things to make you feel bad?
It was a combination of both. I was in a group of very "fratty" people. I think they had picked me out of the analyst pool because they saw potential and that I would pick up the analyst tasks fast, but ultimately ended up making my life very hard because I wasn't their "personality type" - i.e. I was more on the reserved side in a group filled with boisterous sales people.
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IBD is full of meek quims such as yourself, the scary grown frat bros are all in S&T or PE if their dad's loaded
really..
Exact opposite amongst people I know on the street lol.
what desk were you on?
As long as you're avoiding the handful of groups that are known to be super fratty on the street, you'll be fine. IB is a mix of people with that fratty personality but also lots of quieter people. There are also per capita more analysts/associates than S&T, so you'll have more people your age and hopefully more people to relate to.
General tips would be to always say yes to coffee or lunch runs. Don't be afraid to ask to sit in a senior analyst's cube and watch them model something. The IB cubicle setup is more individual boxes than a long row of people like S&T, so it'll be common for people to "swing by" your cube to chat.
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