Recent grads - how would you rate the similarity between your idea of banking (from recruiting, research, etc.) before you joined and your actual experience so far? Mine would be 40%.

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90% but that might be because my brother works in banking

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50%. But honestly i like that... i thrive in uncertainty versus certainty.

Interested to hear more color behind the variance

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