Hedge Fund Back-Office vs. Sales and Trading Internship

I am a junior at a well-regarded semi-target school in the Midwest, and struck out in trying to obtain a sales and trading summer internship at a bulge bracket firm. I did, however, receive and accept a back-to-mid office position at a premier hedge fund, which will consist of basically doing financial data analysis, with limited direct exposure to the firm's trading operation.

My question is: will it be possible for me to obtain a full-time Associate position in sales and trading given that I will have spent the summer in this capacity at the hedge fund.

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there's no comparison between the two. Your internship should be focused on what you want to do and not what firm it is from.

The way I would see it is, you can choose to be best friends with a solid 9 or hook up with a 7 that will fuck your brains out.

Fuck no you will not get a FT offer at a S&T desk if your previous internship is a BO role. S&T requires killer instinct, either you have it or you don't. BO is for people that are very process oriented and preferred things to be highly structured.

 

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