Top 20 Banks To Work For - "Employee Satisfaction" - 2018 Edition

Saw this just posted on Poets & Quants (sourced from WSO) and wanted to S/O Patrick & WSO for being the ones taking the reigns and providing this insight that nobody else has offered! It's awesome to see this site earning even more recognition and autonomy in the space. Let's see what you guys think..

2018 Investment Bank Satisfaction Ratings

  1. Wells Fargo & Co. | 98.9%
  2. Goldman Sachs | 97.8%
  3. Lazard | 96.7%
  4. Evercore | 95.6%
  5. Bank of America Merrill Lynch | 94.5%
  6. Jefferies & Co. | 93.4%
  7. JPMorgan Chase | 92.3%
  8. Credit Suisse | 91.2%
  9. Morgan Stanley | 90.1%
  10. Houlihan Lokey | 89.0%
  11. Citigroup | 87.9%
  12. Barclays Capital | 86.8%
  13. Deutsche Bank | 85.7%
  14. Suntrust Robinson Humphrey | 84.6%
  15. PJT Partners | 83.5%
  16. PNC Financial Services | 82.4%
  17. BMO Capital Markets | 81.3%
  18. RBC Capital Markets | 80.2%
  19. Macquarie Group | 79.1%
  20. William Blair | 78.0%

I was thrown off seeing WF at the top and finding UBS sitting right below 75% satisfaction.. the list goes on and i've linked it below; it's also all available on the WSO database. What surprised you the most? What is most important to you guys that are in FO roles: Pay? Work-life balance? Deal flow? Prestige?

Source: Poets & Quants WSO Company Database WSO IB report

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I think it depends on how you define a "banker". I wish I knew how the survey was run in order to determine if there were controls to ONLY have input from IB employees. If you had a mix of employees then some of these rankings make sense, but others do not. I work for a BB, not on the IB side, and consider myself a finance professional. Does that make me a "banker", could I have filled out this survey even though I'm not IB?

 

Every retail banker, corporate banker, bank teller, and financial analyst at a bank will consider themselves a "banker". Thus, results may be very skewed.

Do you really believe 97% of the IB guys at Lazard are satisfied with their job and life? Give me a break. I'd be shocked if anyone here can find 6 people at Lazard who like their job.

 

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