4th year in m&a with lateral offer at Simpson NYC — can anyone give me a general vibes check in the office right now thx

(I’m like 70% leaning taking the offer, just wanted to see if there’s anything special about STB NY)

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Have only heard bad things. Check out TLS, well documented if not dated

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I have the opposite view: TLS is unnecessarily pendatic and prestige-driven (threads always derail off topic), but I suspect there are way more younger/KJD/LARPers on FB/reddit than TLS

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STB is in major growth mode. Hiring is insane right now. Anyone that is decent and shows some level of care is billing +200 hours per month.

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Definitely used to be a handful of personalities that were rough. But that was like a decade-ish ago, and at least some are gone. Others could have mellowed a bit? Also not sure it really differs from other top NYC M&A groups (every firm has some bad apples).

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I can't say because I myself wasn't in STB mna- I stayed away like the plague. But pretty universally very demanding and rough personalities in the leadership group...I know a few of the worst culprits have left so the tone may have shifted a bit...but let's just say, as a threshold level, that group never hesitated to let summer associates work junior associate hours during their summers

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