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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]I worked at an IB[/b] and Big 4 in NYC.

I really only wanted people from NYC area. NYC is expensive so if person already lives in NYC problem solved. Also if I want then to internal during school year it is better.

Also First Gen, minority, lower income and women we tried to hire if possible. They need the intern more.

BTW we hired the valedictorian of St. John’s Business school one year who lived at home in Queens and took 18 credits a semester and worked 40 hours a week bagging groceries. She was 10x the worker.

I personally unless Trump University type school could care less where you went.  [/quote]
I doubt you did. I have close business relationships with those big IBs in NYC, so I know well. They do have a list of target schools with many outside NYC as you can imagine. Big 4 are mid-tier sweat shops and don't generally attract grads of top colleges (unlike MBB).
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Im the OP with interns from Fordham. Two thoughts on your comment: this is 100% true in consulting world. Which in many ways is a confidence game and that requires guys and gals with good hair, good bodies, and a t10 degrees. Smart, for sure, but also a type. Personable college athlete is a big plus. They recruit narrowly.

That was pretty true for us too, certainly in my day. So I was surprised by the Fordham kids tbh. I think two things have changed: first is the actual commitment to diversity and lack of confidence about outside training (we don’t want someone else’s “diversity hire”).  We’re having a lot of success bringing in POC early and training in-house, sometimes starting as summer interns and continuing throughout the year.  If there were more kids like this from stern (we have some), we’d take more. But I’ve seen kids in last 5-10 years from places like Fordham, Baruch, Pace and really that’s entirely different from kids who were coming in 15 years ago.

The other thing is we just don’t have the bandwidth/interest in kids who have issues w city living. Either coming in to work looking like they were out all night or being scared to take the subway in early morning. Parents calling is not a thing that happened 20 years ago. And according to HR, it was happening here. We’re moving away from all that.  
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