Houston 2018 Investment Banking Summer Analyst Recruiting

Bulge Bracket Goldman Sachs - Class filled J.P. Morgan - Half the class filled, class size unknown Credit Suisse - Half the class filled Morgan Stanley - Took 3 students. Class size of 4 Citi - Holding out for Fall recruiting UBS - Class filled Deutsche Bank - Recruiting starts during the fall. Since DB does a centralized process for all their US offices, no early interviews were held BAML - Barclays -

EB,MM, & Other Lazard - Holding out for Fall recruiting Evercore - Took 2 UT guys. recruiting starts back up in mid/late September Moelis - 2 UT Students were extended offers after early superday, one accepted as far as I know Jefferies - Class filled Wells Fargo - 10-12 slots available. Holding superdays soon RBC - Interviewed multipe candidates from UH for SA spots this week (9/10-9/16). Offers going out next week. Scotia - BMO - Raymond James - Macquarie - Houlihan Lokey - KeyBanc - Takes 1 intern every summer SunTrust Robinson Humphrey - Simmons - 1-2 offers extended. No information on class size TPH - 1-2 offers extended. No information on class size Intrepid -

The information presented here is what I know through Analysts/Associates who work at these firms. Please comment down below if you have reliable information

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Jefferies has taken 3 so far (2 from UT, 1 from a non-target). Class size is 8.

Also heard all their interns accepted full time offers, so no full-time recruiting for them this year.

 

You shouldn't be asking this question to a bunch of college kids... to talk to lots of people who actually work in the industry.

TPH has a great culture, although they've fallen back in terms of deal flow since they only do M&A.

There is a huge drop off after GS in the bulge category - for example UBS lost an Associate this morning and a VP yesterday. They're imploding. Definitely focus on tenure at the high ranks of any bank your considering.

JPM is next tier after Goldman. They generally do it all there, and have a good culture.

Jefferies needs to be included in the short list with GS. They are murdering it right now. First year analysts were paid $200k all-in this year and all seven of their interns accepted FT offers.

Simmons is good if you want a good work life balance and you don't mind losing out on E&P experience.

Wells Fargo is another place where you'll get decent regular-way corp fin experience.

 

Seems like an exaggeration considering Citi and MS have had really good megafund / PE exits lately. I know Citi's per capita stats aren't that great, but the opportunity is still there if your good. MS has been placing really well lately. Same with EVR, you have a really good shot at BX if you do well there.

What does JPM even do in HOU? Don't seem them on much stuff. But their analysts have had good placements.

The banks you chose to talk about is kinda random, especially WF.

 
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GS being the top bulge in Houston is laughable. JPM being next is equally laughable.

Your entire list is ridiculous except for Jefferies (speaking as someone that works in the industry). For the past few years, GS has put astroturf accounts that post in these recruitment threads and it's pretty annoying. GS isn't bad by any stretch, but it's starting to get ridiculous. It speaks volumes that all these supposedly "top tier" banks are undercutting the recruitment deadlines in order to poach the top tier UT kids who normally went to other banks.

 

Disclaimer: I am a Sophomore Petroleum Engineering student and I'm not going through formal recruitment until next fall

I would go through the BIWS guide, they have an O&G section. I doubt that you'll be grilled super hard on technicals as O&G is a bit wonky in general, but I would recommend familiarizing yourself with decline curve analysis and maybe present value profit and discount rate (i.e. PV10). If you can go in and talk about how new wells are big initial investments with a potentially big initial return but they produce less and less over time, and you know how their ROI on the wells depend heavily on a commodity price which fluctuates (i.e. more risk over time), you'll probably be fine.

 

Evercore update 9/14/17

Went to a Houston Evercore info session on campus today, and apparently they are looking to fill 10-12 analyst intern spots next summer, with "5 or 6" offers now having been accepted.

 

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