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“The optimal age in banking is 28”
“The year I turned 50, I was working for a big bank in NYC. I was made to participate in a mandatory call about diversity, where HR described all their new initiatives. After listening to the extensive discussion about gender, physical […]
Weird and depressing items to bring to your internship at an investment bank
With intern season already underway at some investment banks, anecdotes are starting to flood in from students who are new to the hours, if nothing else. One intern who recently started at a boutique investment bank said he worked until […]
Comment: Mad, bad and lazy banking interns – and how to handle them
The banking interns are coming. In just over a month, summer internships in investment banks will begin. If you work for a bank already, internships can be a time of intense frustration. If you’re coming into a bank as an intern, you need to understand why this […]
Comment: My encounter with a lazy banking summer intern
With the temperature increasing across Europe and Spring at full speed, students are either battling for the very last summer internship spots in banking, or fantasising about their upcoming one. For the lucky ones there will be £8k – £11k ($10.5k to $14.4k) of […]
The Wall Street banks most reliant on 22 year-old employees
Despite booking record profits, U.S. banks collectively cut 4,300 jobs in 2018. All the while the size of their analyst classes have grown or at least stayed flat compared to years past. Whether they really want to or not, investment bank […]
This is how your pay should progress as a banker in your 20s and 30s
People in banking work hard. However, they do so for a reason: in return for frequent 13-17 hour days, front office banking jobs still offer an opportunity to make very good money. How good? Look at the chart below. Using the new salary and bonus survey from […]
Is this why young bankers try escaping from Frankfurt?
In theory, Frankfurt has it all happening. The German city is attracting legal entities as investment banks set up registered EU subsidiaries there. It’s getting some new front office jobs. It’s getting plenty of new back offices jobs. And it’s seeing the expansion […]
Comment: “Junior bankers in Hong Kong are way too obsessed with joining the buy-side”
I’m a fourth-year analyst at Goldman Sachs in Hong Kong. My fellow analysts and I often chat about our career plans, so I’m now familiar with where bankers my age want to work in the future. But when I started […]
The misery (or not) of being a junior in a consulting firm
If you’re thinking of leaving banking to become a consultant, then beware. Consultants don’t necessarily have easier lives than bankers. In the worst case scenario, they work harder and earn less. New research from the Amsterdam School of Business and Economics, […]