Thursday, November 11, 2010

My year in Banking... (Part 1)

Time really flies...

It's been almost a year since I started working in Investment Banking (BarCap Fixed-Income) - I didn't really have time to update my blog, but I will be now trying to write more frequently.

Probably you are wondering how is the life in Investment Banking in Fixed-Income. First - it's very, very chaotic. You have hundreds concurrent things to do and the most difficult part is to control and manage all these tasks so that everyone is happy.

People are really at the very high level. Everyone is from top school and present very good intellectual level. There are many guys from France from all Grand Ecoles and they are always working very closely together. On my desk (10 people) three people have PhD, two people have CFA, one person has FRM.

The pay is very good 60k pounds per year plus some possibility of the bonus (apparently this year will not be too good in this respect though), but there is some really though work to back this salary.

I next couple of days I will continue with my banking story.

5 comments:

Ganesh Kumar said...

Congrats on Barcap UK! Glad to see that the job search paid off. Are you working in IB or Capital Markets? And what kind of role do you have?

Preet said...

Hi,

I have been following ur blog since last... and there as nt much activity thr.. anyways.. congrats for the new job....i am also in London....and work in majot fin app. firm.... and preparing for CFA level 2 for 2011....

will be interested in being touch on linked in ....
Thanks
Sarabpreet Chahal
07805768885
London

Anonymous said...

awesome. can't wait to hear more about it!

Finance Train said...

Thanks for sharing your experience in the investment bank. Would like to know more about your typical day in the job.

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