Jefferies reviews

Compensation is a joke - sweaty work environment & tireless hours makes your pay more similar to that of a food service professional at McDonald's. Sexist, homophobic, and racist senior bankers make up the majority of management and regardless of how many cases HR gets they won't do a singular thing. Firm is all about virtue signaling. If you're an aspiring politician Jefferies is for you. If you don't get the right people to like you in the first 3 months for whatever arbitrary reason they've assigned like maybe a rich, influential parent or a stereotypical profile consider your deal flow and bonus bucket to be a bust. You'll spend most of your time baking off for subpar deals.

Forget work/life balance... Think WeWork gone out of control, stressed-out-drill-sergeant-type alpha managers (both male and female) screaming regularly off the top of their lungs at their subordinates because they can't reach their impossible performance targets, HR managers who could of course hear the screaming through the walls but choose to pretend nothing ever happened, and then there's the annual redundancy announcements just before the office Xmas party... Surprise! You'll be around for one more year! or... you get a surprise empty box on your desk, because they were generous enough to let you go back to your desk, pack up and leave. It's beautiful, somebody should make a movie out of this