Originally Posted by Unregistered

10x better than audit. made a move there and no regrets. better to join as fresh grad though.

definitely ib-lite culture but less cutthroat though still competitive. hours are less predictable and kind of consistently long but people actually have the time to teach (but you need to have self-taught knowledge already). culture-wise the best managers are still the homegrown advisory ones and not transferred from audit imo.