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 19, 2025 | Interviewing, Lateral Recruiting, Summer Internships
The investment banking recruiting landscape has reached an unprecedented inflection point where traditional power dynamics have been completely upended. While deal flow is rebounding and banks contemplate potential staffing shortages, this isn’t creating the... 
by meridith dennes | Sep 18, 2025 | Interviewing, Lateral Recruiting
How a few good interviews can make you think you’re Wall Street royalty—and why that’s not necessarily a bad thing, as long as you keep your feet on the ground After eight years of watching investment banking careers unfold from the recruiting side,... 
by meridith dennes | Sep 17, 2025 | Interviewing, Lateral Recruiting
The perfect storm brewing in Wall Street talent acquisition After months of cautious optimism, investment banking is experiencing a genuine inflection point. M&A volume isn’t just picking up—deals are finally crossing the finish line. Summer interns have...