by meridith dennes | Aug 18, 2025 | Interviewing, Lateral Recruiting, News
How Three Years of Strategic Miscalculations May Have Created One of the Most Challenging Hiring Environments in Investment Banking in Recent Years By late 2025, investment banking appears to be facing one of the most difficult hiring environments seen in recent... 
by meridith dennes | Jul 27, 2025 | Buy Side, Exit Opportunities, Interviewing
While Wall Street banks rush to implement new policies to prevent analysts from jumping to private equity, Lazard Inc. is taking a different path: they’re simply not going to. CEO Peter Orszag made the comments during the firm’s Q2 earnings call, where he... 
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 17, 2025 | Campus Recruiting, Interviewing, Lateral Recruiting, Summer Internships
Investment banking interviews are notoriously challenging, with technical questions forming the backbone of the evaluation process. Whether you’re a recent graduate or an experienced professional transitioning into investment banking, understanding what... 
by meridith dennes | Jun 26, 2025 | Campus Recruiting, Interviewing, Lateral Recruiting, Summer Internships
The End of Perfect Answers: How Investment Banks Quietly Revolutionized Technical Interviews Something fundamental has shifted in investment banking recruiting, and most candidates are completely unprepared for it. Over the past 18 months, every major bank on Wall... 
by meridith dennes | May 19, 2025 | Campus Recruiting, Interviewing, Summer Internships
Walking into an investment bank as a fresh-faced analyst can feel like entering a foreign country where everyone speaks in code. Beyond the obvious terms like “IPO” and “M&A,” there’s an entire vocabulary that determines whether...