Which bulge bracket firms are currently hiring the most?

Question

Where do you think my chances of landing an offer would be the highest? I will most likely apply at all of them, but would be good to have an estimate on the current hiring situation.

Answer 1

Great question. This is, of course, only known with certainty to the individual banks' HR teams. That said, here is a list of some of the top bulge brackets that you might consider reaching out to the HR teams / networking with junior banks at (alphabetical):

BofA
Barclays
BNP Paribas
Citi
DB
GS
HSBC
JPM
MS
Nomura
RBC
SocGen
UBS
WF

Of course there's a lot of nuance into how to get these firms to take your application seriously--let's set up a free intro session to discuss how you can network your way in.

Answer 2

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