IBD.

In general, IBD is better for PE. The SA offer rates are usually higher. In some firms, the IBD FT offer rate was double the S&T offer rate.

This is how S&T offers work. Let's say there are 50 interns total. Like 15 will get offers. 5 will get them on merit, the other 10 will get them because of "fit" which in S&T is a bullshit code word for we played football at x target school

 
Prospector101:
S&T = dumb jocks?

dumb certainly not Jocks good possibility

The answer to your question is 1) network 2) get involved 3) beef up your resume 4) repeat -happypantsmcgee WSO is not your personal search function.
 
happypantsmcgee:
Prospector101:
but jocks = dumb

Andrew Luck, Myron Rolle, Mike Mussina, etc all just ran train on your mom.

John Elway, Ryan Fitzpatrick

The answer to your question is 1) network 2) get involved 3) beef up your resume 4) repeat -happypantsmcgee WSO is not your personal search function.
 
Prospector101:
throwing or kicking something doesnt make u smart

You do realize all of those people attend HYP or S...so they are stupid because they choose to use there physical talent?

The answer to your question is 1) network 2) get involved 3) beef up your resume 4) repeat -happypantsmcgee WSO is not your personal search function.
 
Best Response

I had IB and S&T offers and went with IB because a) I liked it/wanted to do it, but also b) from speaking to people in S&T, it became apparent that while there is some mobility, people who start in S&T usually stay in S&T to a large degree. A senior FX salesperson I spoke to said if I start in sales I'll probably stay in some type of sales my whole career if I want to stay in finance. This may not be true for everybody, and you may be able to overcome it if you try S&T and dislike it because you are talking about SA rather than deep into a FT S&T career, but it's worth mentioning the skillset you develop/exit ops that you get are far wider in IB than S&T.

 

Thanks for the reply, really appreciate it. You mention some of the concerns I have been having in terms of exit ops. Not sure if I wanna stay in finance forever; I have a tendency to become quite cynical towards most of the things I do over the long run.

 

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