Highest Ranked Comments In The Last Month

+97 just put the deck in the bag big bro Intern in CB
+64 she getting her walls destroyed at Sig Chi this weekend bro just work shit out w your current lady. grass aint always greener bucko Intern in IB - Cov
+55 This country used to be great. Now a 3 martini brunch gets you reported to HR. Philly Special
+54 I am both racist and an incel Analyst 1 in IB - Cov
+45 Congrats to all the Piper analysts who can finally tell their Evercore peers that they work at an EB now as well Associate 1 in IB-M&A
+40 You do realize that you’re asking a site filled with some of the biggest banking hardos to quit a job that they jack off to every night right. Associate 1 in IB - Cov
+40 What are you looking for here, for us to gargle your balls? “Hey guys I’m about to clear $1.16M as a VP, is that good??” Yes 40% is uncommon. Would say MM MDs are typically not clearing this much. DumbassMBA
+38 Over the summer Shorenstein bought a deal in Nashville that was ~60% anchored by TikTok. Top floors too. A few weeks later, TikTok shut down its entire Nashville office. BadgersRE
+37 My bank is ranked below what my ego prefers. That said, this is objectively wrong.  Intern in IB - Cov
+37 Never solve a temporary problem with a permanent answer. Hang in there and stop placing your worth on your job. Prospect in IB-M&A
+37 Feels illegal reading this for free Associate 1 in IB-M&A
+35 Best one so far. Southern_cre
+31 Feels like COVID/rates have become a convenient excuse for a decade of bad office calls. Director in RE - Other
+30 Anyone else remember that Journal piece on Brandon? It came off like someone born with a silver spoon blaming the market. It looks a lot more self-inflicted now. Associate 3 in RE - Comm
+30 Shit like this annoys me. Just keep going forward dude my god. I found out what IB was my senior year at a T-100 state school, pivoted to an MSF and broke in. Analyst 1 in IB - Gen
+30 To be fair the guy sounds more like a woman than a sexist Partner in IB - Gen
+29 MM IB down in Jacksonville offered u $15, $10, $5 million but u have to work for dis decade Gold-ManSacks
+29 Public markets has "Inverse Cramer" while real estate has "Inverse Shorenstein" Assist. VP in RE - Comm
+28 Baffling that a firm based in SF for generations completely missed the AI wave and the biggest office demand story in its own backyard. Asleep at the wheel while AI reshaped the SF office market around them. Berkeley12
+27 You will be a Piper intern then IBIBIBIB123
+26 Family businesses are complicated SF_Giants
+26 Make your own coffee + meal prep + insider trading AnnonymousMonkey
+26 Allow me to offer profound life advice based of my first six weeks of working FT.... Women didnt want me but my 60 year old balding MDs do, so now I feel the warm and fuzzy inside  Associate 3 in CorpDev
+25 You really fell for this PaulAllenIsInLondon
+25 This is incredibly gay, delete this or at least remove your identifying info. You haven't even been in spindle for a month bro. Intern in IB - Cov
+25 Get drunker than him Consulting Brute
+24 Wrong again Doomer. My model says 5% rent growth and a 4.5% exit makes IRR go boom. Assist. VP in RE - Comm
+23 In the same boat. I think we will both be impacted by the ground after we jump out of our dorm windows once the transaction closes. Intern in IB - Gen
+23 Thanks man. I was gonna off myself, but that Rocky quote really saved me. Smoke Frog
+23 Ok clanker VP in IB - Cov
+23 Interviewed with them 2 years ago. Hiring manager acknowledged office is a challenging asset class but they had no intentions to diversify. They wanted to lean more into it because they had a lot of dry powder. Urban Mogul
+23 unfortunate but you need to get your head in the game man. you will lose all your prestige and possibly your life if you date someone not in IB or PE.  Intern in IB - Gen
+22 Congrats for staying married! GS under Blankfein
+22 I'm not sure that I'm going to be giving you advice that you'll love to hear but here it is anyways: you need to have the exact opposite mentality for the long haul. Senior VP in CorpDev
+22 Is Danielle Shorenstein at Prospect Ridge related? She’s sharp AF and ex-Blackstone  Senior VP in RE - Other
+22 This is why being effectively office-only feels increasingly anachronistic. Office has more embedded risk today because the tenants do. Managing Director in RE - Other
+21 For all that is holy keep it professional until you leave for the buyside. If she reciprocates ask when you leave. Remember - she wanted the return offer, there is a good chance she was just working to get it. Associate 2 in Private Credit
+21 Everyone in office got hit, that's true. Senior VP in RE - Comm
+20 First of all congrats on IU KelleyYou somehow turned a Hinge date into an off-cycle spot and a return offer, is this the new recruiting meta? Analyst 2 in IB - Cov
+20 PWP better buck up or shut up buddy shits not sweet in the Upper Midwest. Them boys from Piper will Get after they ass on God InvestmentMonkeyBanker
+19 Senior VP in RE - OtherWhy isn’t she involved in the family business? IsItREPE
+19 The only value in UBS is the wealth management franchise, it's effectively a WM with an IB bolted on to it that was initially supposedly serve it's HNWI clients, which sounded like a good idea for about 5 minutes. Analyst 2 in PE - Other
+19 Anything to get a raise 😂 burner18363737728
+19 Pretty callous take man. Regardless of legal arguments, those lads did something really nasty and shouldn’t be let off the hook. Can’t really consent when you’re force-fed k also  rocinante555
+19 I think the measure of a person is not what they have achieved, but how much rejection and failure they can take, and keep moving forward. Keep your head up, and don’t quit. roastedplantains
+18 All this Piper slander in the comments….smh. I genuinely enjoyed working there AND was comped above my BB peers. tonysoprano-tone
+18 I used to work at an institutional investment manager in the Bay Area. We stopped re-upping with them after Fund XI. My understanding was there were concerns with leadership. Director in RE - Comm
+18 The funniest part of this thread is the assumption that something has gone wrong because London banks no longer hand out seats to a second-year UK undergrad who did one spring week and Geography at a “target”. Analyst 2 in IB - Gen
+18 Idk if I’d be bragging about buying $2B of core office with the 10Y UST up 1.25%. Not a lot of room for error on those deals. Curious where they mark today Associate 2 in RE - Other
+18 ^^^ least schizophrenic UBS poster  Intern in IB - Gen
+17 Interesting Senior VP in RE - Other
+17 Can’t tell if this is AI or Adderall honestly  cr7airconditioner
+16 Missing the SF recovery is wild to me. They've been there for generations. If they missed the recovery in their own backyard, where's their competitive edge? Principal in RE - Other
+16 I already gave color on their most recent acquisition above. Even on the 2024/25 deals, you're not getting to 16 – 18% at 7.0 – 8.0% caps when they mostly used debt funds at S+300, if not higher. Senior VP in RE - Comm
+16 Bye, thanks for stopping by! Gonna be one hell of an uphill climb now. Everyone successful in life always got an EB offer right out of college and never has any setbacks early in life. Smoke Frog
+16 Visa status or citizenship has nothing to do with any layoffs (which aren’t happening btw). You are just racist against Asian. longliveCS
+16 Everyone in real estate knows Brandon never seemed especially interested in the business and came into it with every advantage. Berkeley12
+16 Regardless of how it’s written, does AI introduce another layer of risk to office investing? Obviously yes. That’s the point. Managing Director in RE - Other
+15 One of their VPs has been looking around for a new gig for a while now. Hope it works out. Tough job market, especially at that level. Crimson_
+15 Interviewed with them earlier this year for the SF spot. Lots of junior turnover and basically zero upward mobility. Seems like the only way to move up is another round of layoffs. Associate 2 in RE - Comm
+15 In SF, the family used to own somewhere between half a dozen and a dozen properties. Today they’re down to three, and two are in trouble. Managing Director in RE - Comm
+15 Our MD called at 9:45 p.m. on a Thurs night because a client might consider a transaction in the next 18–36 months. He asked for a “light five-pager” by breakfast. Anonymous Monkey.
+15 Coming up in this business in the 2000s, I used to really look up to them. Literally. Their office was at the top of 555 Cal, back then one of the best seats on the West Coast. SF_Giants
+15 Dawg can you please explain in plain English what this post is about? Give us a 1-2 sentence rundown of what happened.  Analyst 1 in IB-M&A
+14 2–3 years ago it was mostly people leaving for greener pastures. More recently, seems like a mix of people getting let go and people quitting with no gig lined up. Associate 2 in RE - Comm
+14 Even my grandma knew what was happening with TikTok Associate 2 in RE - Comm
+14 congrats on the UBS! Associate 1 in IB - Cov
+14 Obviously AI risk to office isn't groundbreaking. Neither is "more risk should mean more return." Which is exactly why taking on another layer of office risk for core-plus returns is so hard to explain. Managing Director in RE - Other
+13 Thing long me no read VP in IB - Cov
+13 “Lol Tishman” is a weird take. Tishman bought the SoHo building for ~$105M in May 2025, backfilled it to 100%, and just sold it to Shorenstein for ~$135M less than 1.5 years later. Probably a 40%+ IRR. Senior VP in RE - Comm
+13 yo what are we doing gang...just sleep with your md and be done with it Intern in CB
+13 I'll bite on the RX names (pursuant to my comment above).  Associate 2 in IB - Restr
+13 27 y/o Europeans from hec bocconi escp with 10 off cycles please fuck off back home, and no I'm not being salty  Intern in IB - Gen
+13 You need to lateral asap. Not getting VP promo means you have no real backing in the group despite whatever nice thing your MD is saying. Kowalzky
+13 Brokeback Bank Investment Analyst in HF - Event
+13 Is this tuff at NYU stern wuandale33
+13 Associate 2 in IB - Gen
+13 This is proper ai slop Hardo Intern
+13 There was a real brain drain in SF during covid, with several of the strongest MDs leaving. They never really rebuilt that bench. Instead, they promoted people quickly to fill the holes. SF_Giants
+13 Looks more like incompetence than bad luck. Analyst 1 in IB - Gen
+13 Yes it reads AI heavy but directionally the point he’s making is substantive to the overall conversation. Intern in RE - Other
+13 TheDebtStar IsItREPE
+12 He left office entirely for R&D/advanced manufacturing. After ten years with a front row seat to Shorenstein's portfolio, he chose a different asset class. Says a lot. Senior VP in RE - Comm
+12 I heard a UBS analyst advocating for "protected sleeping hours" of 4 hours each night! These people who think they are perfect little angels must be FIRED and BANNED from the industry. lucien_de_montclair
+12 Here's my two cents as someone from one of the B's and many friends across all of the MBB.   Associate Consultant in Consulting
+12 There’s a reason they keep getting hired. It’s because the average American IQ is so low that there is somehow a shortage of people smart enough to write formulas in excel and make slides look pretty  Analyst 2 in IB - Cov
+12 What is with these Blackstone threads? You guys treat this company like it’s reality TV for finance dorks. Who are these people you care about and why on earth do you care? IsItREPE
+12 We sold them a building recently. Lots of retrades with them. At some point the juice isn’t worth the squeeze UT_HookEm
+12 Not a banker but I do manage people and I imagine it all happens for similar reasons. You probably won't get this until you're also managing people but nutmegger189
+12 Former PWP banker here pls ignore title. Absolutely fuck those guys. They all deserve to say they work at Piper Sandler or be fired. God is good. Today is a good day Intern in PE - Growth
+12 Shut up and dribble bitch - when / if you get to associate you’ll do the same thing Analyst 2 in IB-M&A
+11 Who isn’t looking? If this thread is any indication, they have bigger concerns than which VP a random WSO post is about. Partner in RE - Comm
+11 Quitting with no new role lined up in this market is pretty telling. I can barely get interviews right now lol. Associate 1 in RE - Comm
+11 Prospect in IB - Cov
+11 Jesus this is sad to read but know so many losers in the industry that fit this mold to a T. UBSRising789
+11 The streets are saying that this is the most Indian comment ever posted Investment Analyst in PE - Other
+11 Dude, I think you are vastly underestimating the amount of resources and effort it takes to turn a homeless person's life around. Especially the effort it takes from the homeless person themselves.  UBSRising789
+11 y is everyone taking this seriously lol akxoisjwn
+11 sadness is the nature of discipline - the good life is mostly sadness with happiness and pleasure presenting themselves unannounced, sparsely, but more and more over time. and a deep peace underlying the rough day to day. ProbablyEngAnyway
+11 Hello, I have written at length about this on some other posts. I think you might be able to click on my account and see my past “comments” there is more detail there. PeterEater