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 | 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 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... 
by meridith dennes | Aug 31, 2025 | Campus Recruiting, Interviewing, Lateral Recruiting, Summer Internships
Get Real-Time Recruiting Intel Your Competition Never Sees While you’re refreshing Goldman Sachs’ careers page for the hundredth time, students enrolled in Prospect Rock Academy are accessing recruiting market intelligence through Meridith’s 36,000+... 
by meridith dennes | Aug 7, 2025 | Campus Recruiting, Summer Internships
So you didn’t get that coveted summer internship at Goldman or Morgan Stanley, and now you’re wondering if your investment banking dreams are dead in the water. I get it – I’ve been there, and I’ve helped dozens of students navigate this exact...