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Student from questionable video interview gets job at Goldman Sachs
Goldman Sachs is doing video interviews. You should know this because we’ve written a lot about Hirevue, the digital interviewing system Goldman uses to sift its junior candidates. But what if, before...
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J.P. Morgan job shows why bankers should choose Frankfurt
J.P. Morgan is expected to move some of its London jobs to Frankfurt because of Brexit. If you’re an employee at the bank who plans to become a parent, that could be good news. A job currently posted...
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What if you don’t make “power associate” at Goldman Sachs?
It’s quicker to make associate at Goldman Sachs than it used to be. Whereas you used to have slog at analyst level for three years before hitting associate, you’re now an analyst for only two years and...
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Where are these robot accountants at Deutsche Bank?
There are robots at Deutsche Bank. Not literally, but figuratively – human beings performing repetitive and robotic activities that could just as easily be done by actual robots as by sentient...
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Deutsche Bank’s secret generosity to its longest-serving staff
Deutsche Bank’s retention bonuses from earlier this year aren’t going too well. You will recall that these special bonuses, paid to top DB staff to compensate for the annihilation of 2016 performance...
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Why you will find the best dressed bankers at BNP Paribas
If you work for Goldman Sachs, don’t necessarily expect to wear a suit. Goldman these days is more a chinos sort of place than a world of Ferragamo loafers and shirts with your initials embroidered on...
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10 things you didn’t know about Hugh Hendry, whose Eclectica hedge fund just...
Hugh Hendry’s Eclectica hedge fund is no more. The outspoken Glaswegian has shuttered the 15 year-old fund after it slumped 9.4% in the year to August and lost 90% of its assets under management in the...
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10 things you need to know about the Barclays junior dress code
If any bank is relaxed about its dress code it’s supposed to be Barclays. While only 11% of Goldman’s summer interns thought ‘anything goes’ in terms of workplace attire, last week’s survey of banks’...
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London Uber ban: bankers react
Something very bad has happened: Uber has been banned in London. A generation of bankers who got used to having cheap rides in, out, or after work are going to have to make do with black cabs or…...
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Andrea Orcel on the boringness of banking and rehoming staff
Andrea Orcel’s job doesn’t sound very exciting any more. In a Brexit breakfast discussion run by Financial News this morning, he complained that 60% of his job is now consumed by dealing with...
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M&A MD berates colleagues for scruffy outfits
Remember the pre-dress down days, when Hermes ties were the norm in banking and everyone who was anyone wore shirts with their initials monogrammed on the cuff? An MD in the M&A team of one big...
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Bank of America’s new Paris office is far nicer than Goldman Sachs’ new...
As U.S. investment banks prepare for a hard or “bad-tempered” Brexit, they’re putting their money where their mouths are and taking out leases on new offices in European cities. Accordingly, Goldman...
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A big new reason for bankers to move to Paris after Brexit
Imagine, for a moment, a world in which you can – if you wish – take a break from your banking career every half decade and get paid a huge amount by the state to pursue your dream of setting up a...
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Young French banker’s claims of outrageous harassment at BNP Paribas
Does BNP Paribas have a problem with sexual harassment? The testimony of one former corporate finance junior at the French bank suggests it does. Or it did – the accusations relate to events six years...
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The real lure at European banks on Wall Street: the massive salaries
European banks are hiring feverishly on Wall Street. McKinsey & Co is reportedly advising Deutsche Bank CEO John Cryan that the U.S. is the market to conquer. Barclays is busy pursuing its aim of...
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How to dress as a technologist in a bank. A sartorial guide
If you’re thinking of joining a bank’s tech team, you might be excited about what you’ll get to wear. After all, while most people in banks are only permitted to wear “smart casual” as their most outré...
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Banking’s most notorious bad boy is now selling socks
Remember John LeFevre, the ex-Salomon Brothers trader who started the @GSElevator Twitter account and penned an apparently boring book titled, “Straight to hell. True tales of deviance, debauchery and...
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The lost Goldman Sachs 1985 fixed income recruiting video
In 1985, Goldman Sachs was still a partnership. The current partners owned around 80% of the firm, retired partners held the remainder. Lloyd Blankfein was a 31 year-old trader at J. Aron, the...
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How much did Sajid Javid earn in banking?
So, Sajid Javid, the former head of credit trading at Deutsche Bank is the UK’s new home secretary. The Exeter University graduate has come a long way since structuring CDOs at DB in 2006. He’s also...
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The best and the worst banks for working hours
How many hours will you really work in an investment bank now? After all those initiatives to cut working hours, is it true that banking jobs are about as arduous as a long shift at the Big Four? Not...
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