+200 I Got Cocky... IB 71 1y
+200 Gifts for First YR Analyst IB 52 2y
+200 Q&A : Credit (DL, SSG) CR 128 2y
+200 Tech misconceptions IB 69 2y
+200 Troubled fundraising processes PE 127 2y
+200 How to stop viewing everything through the lense of prestige? IB 44 3y
+200 Favorite Company Swag Received? FASH 95 3y
+200 Favorite Distressed/Special Situations Plays? PE 87 3y
+200 Q&A: Distressed/PE Associate PE 83 3y
+200 Worst internship stories (investment banking) OFF 38 3y
+200 Analyst - Laid Off JOB 193 4y
+200 Being an Asian in finance in the United States IB 146 4y
+200 Women Who Made it Work OFF 47 4y
+200 Why Banks Need to Make a Faster Move IB 38 4y
+200 JPMorgan Weighs Shifting Thousands of Jobs Out of New York Area IB 86 4y
+200 Why does the US have so much more investment banking activity than the rest of the world? IB 67 5y
+200 Hardest You've Hustled for a Position? OFF 72 5y
+200 Have any 1st year analysts actually quit? IB 163 5y
+200 How I Paid Off 60K In Loans OFF 58 6y
+200 David Einhorn is one of my Favorite People HF 215 6y
+200 Does anyone know why bodybuilders use steroids? OFF 73 6y
+200 What separates the good from the great in Private Equity? PE 20 6y
+200 You have one city to invest in. Which city and why? RE 140 6y
+200 Breaking into Sales & Trading? TR 238 7y
+200 Why is insider trading illegal? IB 186 8y
+200 The comprehensive Golf thread and Q&A OFF 216 8y
+200 How do you all deal with anxiety or stress? OFF 93 8y
+200 What Watches do You Wear? FASH 370 9y
+200 Warren endorses government theft OFF 150 15y
+199 Summer 2025 Carnage: Guggenheim Edition IB 102 1y
+199 WF is so back. IB 35 1y
+199 Someone Please Convince Me Jim Simons Isn't Complete BS HF 46 1y
+199 Gifting Bonus to Parents? IB 17 1y
+199 New WSO Moderation Efforts [Updates Here] IB 50 3y
+199 A complete list of SA 2022 Banks Still Recruiting JOB 189 3y
+199 Compensation Structure At Quant VS Fundamental Funds HF 72 4y
+199 VP Lying IB 66 4y
+199 Why We Should All Return to the Office IB 68 4y
+199 Wall Street “Clout” IB 33 4y
+199 Is Nepotism Dead? IB 82 4y
+199 Morgan Stanley 2019 SA Megathread IB 542 5y
+199 Commodity Trading is Dead TR 126 5y
+199 "Diversity & Inclusion Intern" OFF 42 5y
+199 A controversial “portfolio theory” of career planning IB 20 6y
+199 Interview Question: "Prove to me that you are smart" JOB 67 6y
+199 As my username suggests, not sure what to do... PE 43 6y
+199 EBITDA vs. Operating Cash Flow vs. Free Cash Flow IB 70 8y
+199 Real Estate Q&A RE 104 8y
+199 Facebok pays better than 1st year analyst? IB 138 14y
+198 Some banks are overrated as fuck IB 63 4mo
+198 IB Ruining My Love/Sex Life OFF 51 9mo
+198 Why You Should Boycott Recruiting at UBS (Insider Perspective) JOB 58 1y
+198 Panic attacks this week HF 44 1y
+198 Josh Kahr's Compliation of Case Studies RE 61 2y
+198 How's your 2023 lookin' so far? OFF 80 3y
+198 How bad is working hard in your 20's IB 81 3y
+198 Want to quit only 5 months in but can't afford to pay back signing bonus IB 74 3y
+198 PE interview question - If you can only know 3 things for an investment analysis? PE 99 3y
+198 The True Value of Liquidity (Confessions of a Jane Street Trader) HF 12 3y
+198 Lets hear your rejection stories OFF 40 3y
+198 Kewsong Lee steps down from Carlyle PE 114 4y
+198 Funny Interview Stories IB 137 4y
+198 Work/Life Balance - Hours RE 47 4y
+198 Weirdest thing you have seen a Co- Worker obsessed with? OFF 118 4y
+198 Favorite Modern Thinkers OFF 152 4y
+198 Why is WSO's search function so broken? WSO 113 4y
+198 How PWM really works (part 1): past, present, future, and $$$ WM 60 4y
+198 COVID driving 'high finance' professionals into career 180s? PE 65 4y
+198 If you inherited $5ml today, what would you do? OFF 145 5y
+198 West Coast Semi Targets IB 72 6y
+198 Q&A: 2nd Year REPE Associate RE 78 6y
+198 How to break into trading? - High quant background? TR 261 8y
+198 At what point did you get off "the path?" OFF 22 8y
+198 Starbucks plans to hire 10K refugees OFF 86 9y
+198 Asking Out Chicks in the Office- Yay or Nay OFF 76 10y
+198 Suddenly rich out of primarily luck. What would you do if you were me? OFF 151 12y
+197 UBS (Bouse of BBs) or Cain Brothers/Leerink, MM Boutiques? IB 49 5mo
+197 Why does nobody care about the Epstein files? OFF 55 7mo
+197 Wall Street Oasis Finance Research Analyst Internship OFF 52 2y
+197 If there's so much academic opposition to M&A, why does it exist? IB 59 3y
+197 Jefferies 2022 IB 471 3y
+197 Blackstone / PJT Exit Opps IB 40 4y
+197 What is that Analyst skill set everyone is talking about exactly? IB 37 4y
+197 I brought up Wolf of Wall Street in my interview IB 36 4y
+197 Female wage gap in PE PE 69 4y
+197 F*#K MINIMUM WAGE OFF 102 4y
+197 MBA Rankings 2021: Surprising? BSCH 63 5y
+197 Don’t put non-IB people down OFF 46 5y
+197 Last-minute Decision: Vanderbilt vs. IU-Kelley (undergrad) BSCH 107 6y
+197 Sorry atheists, but we need the Christians. OFF 123 6y
+196 More layoffs / struggles coming for IB? IB 69 11mo
+196 Physical Oil Trading Basics (Part 1 of 2) PE 72 1y
+196 Catfishing Bankers on Hinge - New Networking Strategy?! IB 25 1y
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+196 Rent as a PE associate PE 92 2y
+196 An Overview of Corporate Banking CR 27 2y
+196 Why The Hate on Sourcing? PE 75 3y
+196 Thoughts on Starting Investment Bank/M&A Advisory for my Company IB 38 3y

Career Advancement Opportunities

October 2026 Investment Banking

  • Evercore 01 99.5%
  • Moelis & Company 01 99.0%
  • JPMorgan 01 98.4%
  • Guggenheim Partners 02 97.9%
  • Morgan Stanley 06 97.4%

Overall Employee Satisfaction

October 2026 Investment Banking

  • Moelis & Company No 99.5%
  • Morgan Stanley 02 99.0%
  • Evercore 01 98.4%
  • Banco Santander 02 97.9%
  • BMO Capital Markets 13 97.4%

Professional Growth Opportunities

October 2026 Investment Banking

  • Evercore 01 99.5%
  • Moelis & Company 01 99.0%
  • Morgan Stanley 05 98.4%
  • Goldman Sachs 01 97.9%
  • JPMorgan No 97.4%

Total Avg Compensation

October 2026 Investment Banking

  • Vice President (16) $429
  • Associates (57) $264
  • 3rd+ Year Analyst (8) $210
  • 2nd Year Analyst (28) $184
  • Intern/Summer Associate (16) $161
  • 1st Year Analyst (84) $151
  • Intern/Summer Analyst (76) $101