Finance Internship Benefits when getting a full-time offer?

caymandriver07
Sat, 30 Jan 2010 18:12:27 +0000

Is it a lot harder to get full-time positions in finance if you haven’t had any industry-related experience?



If there are 2 equally qualified candidates and 1 has prior finance experience (even in IT) and 1 does not, the one with experience has the edge. I’m not saying that MSFT doesn’t hold a certain cache, all I’m saying is that GS on your resume tends to make you more desirable to other banks. This assumes that you are looking to be in the NY area after graduation. If you plan on being on the west coast, then I could see where MSFT = GS in terms of opportunities.

Now if you were telling me to decide between say UBS in their general IT group doing network support and security resets etc vs MSFT working in new products or something interesting or in their corporate finance team, then MSFT would have the edge. But a straight up MSFT vs GS, I’d pick GS