0 What you do Freshman do with your free time? OFF 26 5y
+16 What Career In Finance Has The Highest Job Satisfaction/Happiest Avg. Employee? OFF 15 5y
+54 Unpaid Internship JOB 28 5y
+13 Looking for some advice PE 2 5y
+4 Infrastructure PE Analyst Programs PE 9 5y
+19 I'm NEW! JOB 8 5y
+17 Anyone else forget all the stuff they learned in school? OFF 11 5y
0 ADHD and career progression JOB 1 5y
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0 Summarize businesses in just one or two words JOB 1 5y
+9 High COL West Coast Internship In-Person or Not? IB 1 5y
+11 Dublin job market vs Frankfurt JOB 1 5y
+9 London Internship - Which one to choose? JOB 4 5y
+7 Pretend to be busy IB 11 5y
+18 AFC Bocconi (in Italian) or Corporate Finance Luiss (in english) for IB/MBB? BSCH 6 5y
+28 How Long Did It Take You To Fully Understand IB Technicals? IB 16 5y
+10 At a BB IB Backoffice - Would you sit for the CFA? PE 3 5y
+9 Real Estate Masters - What are the students like? BSCH 1 5y
+11 MM PE vs Consulting/IB - PLS HELP! PE 2 5y
+9 Would an employer care about taking a specific high-level course? PE 2 5y
+6 Quant PE? PE 2 5y
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+2 All-stock Transactions IB 3 5y
+3 Stocks with the most positive & negative sentiment in S&P500 last week TR 1 5y
+12 ESSEC MSc Finance to Bocconi AFC: Is it worthed? BSCH 1 5y
+15 US/Europe vs U.K. work hours IB 4 5y
+12 Want to Start a Master's to Move to the HF Space, but Earliest Chance is Fall of 2022; What to do Until Then? BSCH 1 5y
+18 Pepperdine (non-target) to BB IB? Transfer to target? MBA? NYU Stern waitlist BSCH 8 5y
+6 BB FT 2022 Recruiting Process IB 7 5y
+12 I Switched Majors... JOB 1 5y
+2 Starting FT in a FLDP vs IB IB 3 5y
+11 Interview Question about two companies merging IB 6 5y
0 Primers on debt/credit funds? OFF 2 5y
+3 What banks are still recruiting? JOB 1 5y
+12 Houndstooth/Check Suits for Incoming Analyst? FASH 1 5y
+2 Ops v FIC SA Offers JOB 2 5y
+15 Timing of drug test for full time role PE 8 5y
0 Apax Tech Buyout NYC PE 3 5y
0 I hate being a non-target NUI 7 5y
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+10 ER VP & MD Comp ER 4 5y
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+6 Denver Private Equity PE 11 5y
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0 Incoming S&T SA in a BB JOB 1 5y
0 Corporate Finance TMT at Big 4 in LDN IB 1 5y
+66 Summer Analyst Drug Test IB 33 5y
+6 BB SA 2021 Drug Testing IB 12 5y
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+30 Housing Prices Skyrocketing RE 26 5y
+10 Assistance with College BSCH 1 5y
+14 Long break between analyst to associate stint possible? IB 8 5y
+9 Unpaid HF internship HF 2 5y
0 DITL GS intern @ Youtube IB 1 5y
+45 XOM Staffing Up Trade Desk TR 29 5y
+17 Best Way to Make Money in College OFF 8 5y
+19 Where do all the interns and analyst go??? IB 19 5y
+1 Corporate Banking vs Corporate Finance vs Commercial Banking IB 2 5y
+4 Exit Opportunities to Debt/Credit? JOB 3 5y
0 Hong Kong Email Formats IB 2 5y
+8 PERE Career Path PE 7 5y
+21 Flow traders aptitude test TR 19 5y
0 Nova SBE vs uc3m for Semester Abroad? CO 1 5y
+3 What time do you get to leave on the last day of SA? IB 5 5y
+11 Navy Enlisted to IB//Non-Target MBA BSCH 2 5y
+11 Classmate summered at Big Tech in SF from ultra non-target with no exp, how? OFF 21 5y
0 Would you date a biracial person? would you go out with a black girl? OFF 21 5y
0 Nordic banks in USA TR 2 5y
0 1st and 2nd year analysts have no pull in non-target recruiting at EB and BB/MM? JOB 2 5y
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0 What do you guys consider liabilities in NWC target? PE 1 5y
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+44 Am I at a Sweatshop? IB 47 5y
+13 Guggenheim Benefits? IB 11 5y
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+16 How Many Processes Were You Able to Get Into? JOB 30 5y
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+6 Equity Research Intern and loving it. Does it make any sense to quit ?? IB 3 5y
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+6 PE Style Pitch vs. HF / Stock Pitch? PE 1 5y
+18 The big risks of short sales, DO NOT SELL OFF 19 5y
+6 Post-MBA IB Associate to AM JOB 1 5y
0 Macroeconomic Report Layout IB 1 5y
+9 FP&A --> IB/PE IB 1 5y
+6 Accepting an offer to potentially deny it later ? JOB 1 5y
0 Sell side s&t intern-> Buy side quant full time HF 1 5y
+17 Do you guys think it's possible for IB to adopt more of a consulting WLB where you mainly have weekends off? IB 8 5y
+27 Why bankers are preferring to work from home? IB 25 5y
+2 Are any banks doing FT training in-person? IB 4 5y
+11 Salary at William Blair Chicago IB 7 5y
+27 GME, Failure to Deliver, Short Selling, and Synthetic Shorts HF 4 5y
+16 How can a CS grad get a buy-side gig? HF 4 5y
+71 Incoming Black Swan Event - Beginning to the End of the 10 Year+ Bull Market OFF 44 5y
+77 I am not a cat OFF 22 5y

Career Advancement Opportunities

July 2026 Investment Banking

  • Evercore 01 99.4%
  • Moelis & Company 01 98.9%
  • JPMorgan 01 98.3%
  • Guggenheim Partners 01 97.7%
  • Morgan Stanley 07 97.1%

Overall Employee Satisfaction

July 2026 Investment Banking

  • Moelis & Company No 99.4%
  • Evercore No 98.8%
  • Morgan Stanley 01 98.3%
  • BMO Capital Markets 13 97.7%
  • Banco Santander 01 97.1%

Professional Growth Opportunities

July 2026 Investment Banking

  • Evercore 01 99.4%
  • Moelis & Company 01 98.9%
  • Morgan Stanley 06 98.3%
  • Goldman Sachs 01 97.7%
  • JPMorgan 01 97.1%

Total Avg Compensation

July 2026 Investment Banking

  • Vice President (15) $434
  • Associates (46) $258
  • 3rd+ Year Analyst (8) $210
  • 2nd Year Analyst (22) $179
  • Intern/Summer Associate (13) $156
  • 1st Year Analyst (80) $150
  • Intern/Summer Analyst (73) $101