How do you deal with your friends who don’t work in corporate and are “influencers” or youtubers? I’m a 26yo female in finance and sometimes get annoyed seeing my friends that don’t have a typical 9-5… more
Coming up on my 2 years of IB, recruiting for next opps. I’m in NYC and my lease is up. I need to resign for find a new place. I’m just not sure if my next gig (whatever it is will start summer 21) wi… more
Close friend who knows little to nothing about finance got into day trading and lost a lot of money in a short amount of time. I tried to talk them out of it to no avail. This is someone who has depen… more
What are three questions you wish you had asked before accepting a job ?
How do I make the most out of my role when my FP&A role is glorified admin and accounting but pay is good?
Salary needed to live in a decent one bedroom in NY?
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I’m leaving my team and my manager has been crucial to my personal and professional growth. We have a strong professional relationship and she recently sent a small gift to my house. Should I send a n… more
If you worked after college for 3 years, then pursued an MBA, and then worked for 4 years post MBA - how many years of “industry experience do you have”?
Do people in their 20s in NYC still go out now, during covid?
Have a final round interview with a VC where the partners will give me a company and assumptions and I will have to "structure a deal". I've never worked with companies in that early of … more
Anyone work in debt capital mkts? Whats work pace like, comp, culture, etc?
What are the key qualities that will make a newly promoted IB Associate successful in the role?
My currently role (AWM @ non bb) will have me move to Florida by June 1 due to Covid. I’ve been raised up in NYC all my life and love the city. I’m currently getting around 65k/yr but I’m curious. Wou… more
Preparing for an interview in Finance with a Salesforce team. Any advice?
Any good platforms to manage NDA markup back and forth between potential buyers, both sides of attorneys, and bankers? The current manual process of emailing and logging status in excel seems very 200… more
How do you guys deal with interviewers who are not genuine/“nice” to you during interviews? I just had an interview with this COO from a small crypto firm, was pretty excited going into the call... un… more
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Perpetually looking for a job *sigh*
Came across some people who leave their firm for less than half a year on Linkedin. Why? How they get through the interview to go next with the same position?
I’ve been in the industry over a decade, and still have literally no clue what the floor brokers at the NYSE do. Any online search doesn’t give any more clarity. Seriously, does anyone in here actuall… more
I received an offer from a quant fund. My offer letter doesn’t explicitly state my role/position, it is nyc based, and that it’s full time. It also doesn’t provide benefits breakdown, just a blanket s… more
One of the companies I would love to work for is JP Morgan. I would like to make a couple of question about how's like to work in there to someone who is currently in Europe. Please DM if interes… more
Are (management) consultants licensed? For IB, the bankers are licensed for origination/advisory, but do consultants need any licenses and/or are there any regulations in place or agencies that overse… more
What are your thoughts on a Job offer for 150k vp position for someone with 7-8 years of experience.
Bad idea to leave job before background check for new job clears? Ik it will come back clean
When you’re interviewing for a new job and trying to read up about the things you don’t know but you don’t know what you don’t know 😞
I’ve been going on interviews lately but not hearing back and I wonder if it’s to some extent because I started note taking during interviews. When the interviewer is speaking I usually take notes on … more
Anyone work at Grensill? What’s it like right now with the funding all getting pulled?
Do you still send “thank you” notes after an interview for more senior roles? If so, are they shorter thank you notes vs. the ones sent when applying for junior roles?
Anyone have recent insight into Kaufman Hall? Looking at an AVP role and I've read everything from expecting 60-70hrs/week to you can manage your own work/life balance. Any insight would be great!… more
What did you have to go through to get your current role and how did you prepare for it ? Almost every interview now has an excel case, multiple rounds, different types of testing ?
Is VP at Citi equivalent to VP at JPMorgan? I’m a bit confused about Citi’s corporate titles. Anyone have info?
Anyone have insight into what a VP interview for a PE role entails? Currently a VP on buyside, not sure what to expect and there isn’t much chatter online about it
Preparing for interviews this week and all I want to do is take a nap
Advice on how to go from Finance (front facing, almost 2 yes of experience) to Consulting?
Do you tailor your resume for every single different job you apply for (commensurate with what is on the job description), or do you use the same universal resume for all job applications? For tailor… more
I get modeling a monthly income statement - how common is it to model out a monthly balance sheet / statement of cash flow? My annual balances but I am having a ton of trouble with my monthly CFS and … more
How do you figure out the unknown unknown ? The “you don’t know what you don’t know” part of the job. How long does it take in a new role before this feeling goes away ? And how do you know for sure y… more
My MD offered me an expanded role with more responsibility, that he said he would make official in a week right when January started. Since then, he went quiet. I was drowning in work in Jan-Feb and d… more
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