Worked in IB, obviously long hours but a lot of responsibility - Analyst Jefferies Employee Review

4.0
24 Feb 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Smaller teams, so one got a large amount of responsibility. Went to meetings all of the time. Worked in the Tech group on M&A, debt and IPOs. Worked across the tech sector.

Cons

Extremely long hours - normal banking complaint. Associates / VPs did little - normal banking complaint.

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Cons

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