Summer 2027 recruiting is closing for IB and Buyside roles. If you don’t have an offer yet, you need to be re-focusing your strategy on recruiting across middle markets, regionals, and small boutiques. The “no-name” firms.
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Recruiting Timeline:
Banking:
Where We’re At:
SA 2027: Morgan Partners opened its application this week. 89 banks are actively recruiting for SA 2027.
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New SA 2027 Applications:
Morgan Partners: Boutique M&A (SA 2027)
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Consulting:
Where We’re At:
This was our last week tracking 2026 roles. We have fully shifted to tracking 2027 roles. Some big news is that McKinsey has moved its recruiting up to the spring as opposed to the summer and fall. We expect Bain and BCG to follow. Their applications could be released as soon as next week!
SA 2026 released apps:
None
SA 2027 released apps:
None
FT 2026 released apps:
None
Buyside:
Where We’re At:
SA 2027: Millenium, CIFC Asset Management, Context Capital Management, and Ruane, Cuniff, & Goldfarb opened apps this week. There are currently 78 buyside firms actively recruiting for SA 2027.
FT 2027: Insight Partners opened its app this week. There are currently 2 buyside firms actively recruiting for FT 2027. Likely won’t keep this section until more apps come out around May / June.
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New SA 2027 released apps:
Millenium: Multi-strat HF (SA 2027)
CIFC Asset Management: PC (SA 2027)
Context Capital Management: Special situations (SA 2027)
Ruane, Cuniff, & Goldfarb: Investment intern (SA 2027)
New FT 2027 released apps:
Insight Partners: VC (FT 2027)
New Buyside Associate released apps:
Percheron: Growth Equity (summer 2027 start)
Great Hill Partners: Boston-based Growth Equity (summer 2027 start)
Trivest Partners: Miami-based PE (summer 2027 start)
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Market Update:
Citrini’d
The Citrini article blew up the market. I’m depressed.
Before digging further, this is more of an opinion piece relative to our typical market update.
S&P and NASDAQ YTD Looks Like an EKG
Citrini Research released THE 2028 GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE CRISIS. A claim that by June of 2028, a meaningful swath of life as we know it will be disrupted by AI’s advancement.
Shortly after, SAAS stocks sold off further and then the broader market got taken down with it. I hear it everyday, people are literally freaking out about getting replaced by robots. My view?
Hasn’t technological advancement augmented human experience since the dawn of time?
Without getting too philosophical, when the plow was invented in 6000 B.C., a bunch of farmhands probably thought they were going to go hungry. And guess what happened? Most of them started farms of their own or found new professions.
The Humble Plow…This Will Be Claude’s Depiction in ~100 Years
AI will create more 10x more opportunity than it destroys as has every other technological advancement before it. I think the uncertainty lies around what exactly those jobs will be.
I really couldn’t tell you what those jobs will be, but my gut says that the physical world will be more important once again. We will reallocate our intelligence from purely online, knowledge-based work to real-world ‘doing’ of some sort.
Clean energy, water conservation, space exploration, infrastructure optimization, and access to good food will just become more important. Even more important and sought after than careers such as investment banking or software engineering. Shocking!
As for investment banking and software engineering, those jobs will stay. Just like the farmers, we still have them and need them today. Will there be fewer seats? 100%. However, JPM won’t be a 1-man shop. There will still be a need for analysts, associates, VPs, and MDs. Someone will need to captain the ship one day and AI won’t fully dominate a trust-based industry such as IB. My bet is that a team with 10 analysts may slim down to 7 or 8 and then try to maintain headcount by leveraging AI horsepower.
-Citrini’s Motive-
Now, let’s revisit Citrini. You’re fucking blind if you think research doesn’t have a motive. Who pays the bills over there? Charity? Not a chance.
Their annual subscription is $999/yr for individuals. Likely much higher for institutions. Serious investors with big money are paying those guys to give them an edge; that’s who they want to see win. From the outside, all we see is the occasional public Substack, not the private reports being sent to their customers.
Me Talking About The Citrini Article
I’d guess that they’ve been short SAAS for a long time now and released the public report to really throw some grease on the fire. *Noted that this is a blind assumption.
Is this “dirty” work? Absolutely not. They’re doing their job, I’m just surprised at the fact that everyone is treating this like a portal into June of 2028. Always ask yourself who is getting paid!
I digress. This AI danger is overblown. Just embrace it.
Disclosure: Nothing written here is financial advice or should be used for investment decisions.
Learning Point of the Week:
Behavioral Interviews
Behaviorals are what land you the job.
These are all questions which don’t require numbers, memorization, or forced learning. Behaviorals are applicable for any job across any industry.
“Walk me through your resume.” “Tell me about your greatest strengths.” “Tell me about a time when you had a shitty teammate.”
^these are all examples of behavioral questions. Every single banking or consulting interview will contain some behavioral component. Your response helps the interviewer assess 3 things:
Can this kid speak professionally?
Does their EQ fit the job / firm?
Can they think on the spot?
There are so many robots who compete for banking / consulting jobs and they may know every single technical question inside and out. However, it can be incredibly challenging for them to get across the finish line because they bomb the behavioral interview.
My guidance:
Come up with 5 stories which can be flexxed to apply to any question (keep all answers related to situations which happened in the last ~3 years)
Make your responses ~30 seconds
BLUF. Bottom line up front. State your answer first, then walk through the story
The best thing about behaviorals is that the questions don’t change throughout your life. All you have to do is adapt your story to keep it current.
Don’t overthink behaviorals, just be honest with yourself and try to make it more of a conversation with your interviewer.
Going Forward:
Heavy Push on Our Buyside Associate Prep
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