by meridith dennes | Jul 19, 2025 | Buy Side, Campus Recruiting, Interviewing, Lateral Recruiting, Summer Internships
Goldman Sachs is rolling out a retention program aimed at keeping junior talent from defecting to private equity firms, the latest move in Wall Street’s escalating war over young bankers. The investment bank will offer select interns a guaranteed path from... 
by meridith dennes | Jul 9, 2025 | Buy Side, Exit Opportunities, Lateral Recruiting
Bottom Line Up Front: Goldman Sachs has deployed the nuclear option in Wall Street’s war against private equity’s aggressive recruiting practices. The investment banking giant now requires new analysts to certify every three months that they haven’t... 
by meridith dennes | Jun 14, 2025 | Buy Side, Lateral Recruiting
Bottom Line Up Front: Private equity’s notorious “on-cycle” recruiting race appears to be hitting a breaking point. After years of accelerating timelines that forced first-year bankers to interview for jobs starting two years in the future, major... 
by meridith dennes | Jun 11, 2025 | Buy Side
Source: Business Insider In a move that’s sending shockwaves through Wall Street, Apollo Global Management has become the first major private equity firm to step back from the industry’s controversial “on-cycle” recruiting practice. The $785... by meridith dennes | Jun 6, 2025 | Buy Side, Lateral Recruiting
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) has moved from policy warnings to explicit action, sending uncompromising termination notices to incoming analysts who dare to accept competing offers within their first 18 months. This aggressive enforcement, detailed in a Fortune... 
by meridith dennes | May 26, 2025 | Buy Side
Landing an interview at TPG (Texas Pacific Group), one of the world’s most prestigious private equity firms, is a significant achievement. However, the real challenge lies in converting that opportunity into an offer. With billions of dollars in assets under...