+57 How do you create a PE Market Thesis (LMM / MM)? PE 17 2mo
+57 Feeling insecure surrounded by fancy college grads AM 10 3mo
+57 PWP LA in 2024 IB 33 2mo
+57 Anyone feel like they've become too superficial? OFF 22 4mo
+57 Anyone ever return to a firm that laid them off? IB 43 4mo
+57 What keeps you in it? HF 23 4mo
+57 Finance and The End of History / The Alchemy of Boomer Magic IB 19 5mo
+57 Greatest comebacks in history OFF 52 5mo
+57 Really Negative Coworker - Any Advice? OFF 21 7mo
+57 Evercore 2023 on cycle placement IB 42 8mo
+57 Q&A Macro RV Analyst/Trader HF 34 2mo
+57 Q&A: Equity research analyst at BB ER 21 1mo
+57 Workout/Training Split OFF 29 9mo
+57 Energy / power modeling WTF IB 19 9mo
+57 Advice for a 2-and-Out Associate… PE 23 4d
+57 CS/UBS - Who is deferring & taking the 30K? IB 42 10mo
+57 Fastest MD IB 38 10mo
+56 How to develop a thick skin? OFF 23 2w
+56 Corp Dev Salary Increase? CF 11 1mo
+56 How's Greenhill doing? IB 73 4d
+56 Transferring out of Johns Hopkins IB 20 1mo
+56 Father is planning to transfer valuable second home/investment property to me via trust - which to choose? RE 15 2mo
+56 If you restarted life as a trust fund baby, what profession would you pursue? OFF 45 2mo
+56 Accelerated Recruiting Offers Making Me Depressed OFF 10 3mo
+56 VP Flirting With Me (I don’t like it) OFF 32 3mo
+56 Was my ex a red flag? OFF 32 3mo
+56 Unsure if boss is leaving firm - should I ask my associate? IB 28 3mo
+56 KKR RE Performance RE 14 4mo
+56 Ludovic Phallippou PE 30 4mo
+56 Roommate went MIA OFF 20 4mo
+56 Culture at Bridgewater as bad as "The Fund" portrays it? (curious to hear from ex-Bridgewater employees) HF 19 4mo
+56 Recruiting Experience (Landed MF during On-cycle) PE 16 8mo
+56 My Investment bank refuses to fire me IB 40 8mo
+56 IB vs. PWM IB 25 9mo
+56 Nightingale & CrowdStreet Fraud RE 31 7mo
+56 Jenkem in the office? OFF 7 9mo
+56 Negotiating PE offer PE 19 10mo
+56 Not sure what to do after IB...does the job I want exist anymore? HF/AM/WM? HF 22 10mo
+56 How to care less? OFF 10 10mo
+56 Is secondary advisory real banking IB 31 11mo
+55 I Burned Out But I'm Better Now... Avoid The Top 6 Mistakes I Made During My First 2 Months As a Private Equity Analyst OFF 11 9h
+55 Best Public Markets Gig? ER, MM HF, SM HF, or LO AM? HF 32 6d
+55 Is it a bad idea not to save anything as a junior? OFF 28 1mo
+55 3 years in and still making dumb mistakes. RE 35 1mo
+55 Western Ivey to US: still feasible? IB 60 2mo
+55 UT Mccombs Honors vs. UPenn BSCH 24 1mo
+55 Hate this first year in my group OFF 15 2mo
+55 UBS Layoffs? IB 91 17h
+55 MF Syndicator Bingo RE 66 2mo
+55 How did Apollo only raise $20B? PE 49 4mo
+55 Comparison of LO AM Research Associate Programs AM 58 5mo
+55 EB Target Schools BSCH 32 5mo
+55 Where do the athletic type guys go or exit to? IB 27 6mo
+55 Feeling humiliated as a VP IB 20 6mo
+55 Trading desk not willing to teach me TR 16 6mo
+55 Startup Fund Out of Undergrad - Next Steps PE 9 7mo
+55 LEK vs. Capital One Strategy CO 27 3mo
+55 Multifamily Acquisitions - how fast are you underwriting? RE 22 8mo
+55 Prestige + Sweat vs Culture + VP track PE 16 8mo
+55 DEBATE: Laid off or resign? (urgent) IB 23 8mo
+55 Path of least resistance to HF HF 13 9mo
+55 Networking: Bankers, how many cold emails do you get from students? IB 6 9mo
+55 Am I Soft? PE 14 9mo
+55 Secondaries Modeling PE 29 1mo
+55 Refiner vs Supermajor TR 16 10mo
+55 Transfer into UChicago vs Georgetown vs Ross vs Stern PE 33 10mo
+55 UK&Europe vs. USA long term? IB 16 10mo
+54 Stanford GSB vs Darden (PE vs Consulting) PE 25 1mo
+54 MD shoved food down my throat. Is this normal? IB 16 1mo
+54 Stern or Dartmouth? BSCH 31 1mo
+54 Carry PE 32 2w
+54 Odd HF Interview Experience HF 11 2mo
+54 Dealing with Loneliness in Finance? OFF 23 2mo
+54 PWP Bonuses IB 48 2mo
+54 Is Wharton Undergrad recruiting as competitive as working at a megafund? JOB 16 4mo
+54 I hate LinkedIn OFF 41 4mo
+54 How to stop stressing about future job OFF 11 4mo
+54 CM/GC Project Manager Exit Ops RE 22 3mo
+54 IQ Test Results IB 17 5mo
+54 Am I a high finance failure? JOB 16 6mo
+54 Lost and Depressed: What Do I Do? JOB 8 6mo
+54 EMBA ROI BSCH 11 7mo
+54 Help "translating" a waterfall exercise (toughest I came across) RE 22 7mo
+54 Leaving a big city career for a quieter life OFF 8 7mo
+54 WSO needs to build a firewall, and make Reddit pay for it! WSO 7 7mo
+54 Is there any reason to keep additional cash on the balance sheet when you have a revolver? PE 21 7mo
+54 What do you actually care about and why? PE 21 7mo
+54 What happens to carry if you leave PE 24 7mo
+54 Santander on the up? IB 24 8mo
+54 Can Hedge Funds force their employees to sign prenups? HF 17 9mo
+54 Do you think banks over-fired? OFF 14 10mo
+54 Help HYP student with career plan (IB vs HF) JOB 24 10mo
+54 Making sense of being let go and moving forward from it - Help PE 17 3mo
+54 Prestige IB 21 10mo
+54 Being a gigachad analyst is paradise IB 6 12mo
+53 Leave brokerage to be GP RE 12 1w
+53 UC Berkeley (Haas) vs Cornell Dyson vs Columbia vs Dartmouth BSCH 21 2w
+53 Niche down to an operator or stay an allocator RE 28 1w
+53 Which college (non target) should I go to for a Quant position at a MMHF pod BSCH 37 1mo
+53 Asset management salary in NYC seems god awful RE 34 1mo

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  • Goldman Sachs 19 98.8%
  • Harris Williams & Co. New 98.3%
  • Lazard Freres 02 97.7%
  • JPMorgan Chase 04 97.1%

Overall Employee Satisfaction

May 2024 Investment Banking

  • Harris Williams & Co. 18 99.4%
  • JPMorgan Chase 10 98.8%
  • Lazard Freres 05 98.3%
  • Morgan Stanley 07 97.7%
  • William Blair 03 97.1%

Professional Growth Opportunities

May 2024 Investment Banking

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  • Jefferies & Company 02 98.8%
  • Goldman Sachs 17 98.3%
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  • JPMorgan Chase 05 97.1%

Total Avg Compensation

May 2024 Investment Banking

  • Director/MD (5) $648
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  • Associates (88) $260
  • 3rd+ Year Analyst (14) $181
  • Intern/Summer Associate (33) $170
  • 2nd Year Analyst (67) $168
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