Should I use an offer from a middle market IB to secure a transfer to FDD?

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Take the IB job. It’s likely 50 - 70% more TC for 10-30% more hours

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What ? So you don’t want the IB role ?

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IB hours are way more than FDD - it’s not even close.

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It’s super tacky. Don’t do that. Plus, if FDD knows you actually want to be in IB, they’re even less likely to accept you because you’re clearly a flight risk and won’t stick around long anyway.

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If ur not taking the offer can I have it? 🥺👉👈

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Did you get a mm ib offer as an auditor?

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I can understand the hesitation. There’s a big difference between 60 hrs in a busy week to 80 hrs in IB. I still think you should Just take IB since you clearly want to do that anyway

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It’s 50-60 hours on average for me at middle market FDD. A majority of our employees came from Big 4 to escape the longer hours, so I think it’s safe to say hours at MM FDD firm will prolly be less than at Big 4.

How were you able to land/get through the interviews?

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