by meridith dennes | Oct 5, 2025 | Campus Recruiting, Interviewing, Lateral Recruiting, Summer Internships
The Inconvenient Truth About How Investment Bankers Are Made Investment banking has long operated on a convenient fiction: that the skills required to be a good analyst have much to do with the skills required to be a good managing director. They don’t, really.... 
by meridith dennes | Oct 5, 2025 | Campus Recruiting, Interviewing, Lateral Recruiting, Layoffs, News, Summer Internships
The Transformation Underway JPMorgan Chase is exploring a dramatic restructuring of its investment banking workforce, with proposals under discussion to reduce the ratio of junior bankers to senior managers from 6-to-1 to 4-to-1, according to recent reports. However,... 
by meridith dennes | Oct 4, 2025 | Campus Recruiting, Interviewing, Lateral Recruiting, News
Junior Banker’s Lawsuit Questions Whether All-Night Availability Is Essential Function of Wall Street Analyst Role Legal Battle Puts Investment Banking’s Grueling Work Culture Under Federal Court Scrutiny A Manhattan federal court has dealt a significant... 
by meridith dennes | Sep 21, 2025 | Campus Recruiting, Lateral Recruiting, Layoffs, News
President Donald Trump has signed a proclamation requiring a $100,000 application fee for H-1B visas, representing what experts are calling one of the most dramatic changes to the skilled worker program in decades. The new policy, which took effect immediately on... 
by meridith dennes | Sep 9, 2025 | Campus Recruiting, Lateral Recruiting
How to navigate competing deadlines and manage up when everyone thinks their work comes first In investment banking, “urgent” has lost all meaning. Every email carries a red exclamation mark. Every request is needed “ASAP.” Every managing... 
by meridith dennes | Sep 4, 2025 | Campus Recruiting, Summer Internships
The definitive guide to avoiding the responses that instantly disqualify you Introduction: Your Words Can End Your Career Before It Starts Not getting a return offer from your investment banking internship stings. After analyzing hundreds of real interview...