Jefferies & Company Reviews

Pros

Fast groth
Exposure to senior maangement

Cons

Less advance practices
Fewer chances to win deals

Pros

Smaller office, lots of senior managment exposure, lean deal teams

Cons

Long hours and heavy responsibilities

Advice to Senior Management

Plan ahead, delegate work better

Pros

Good growth opportunities with a growing firm. Focussed management team with vision. Talented individuals from reputed firms working together towards a common goal.

Cons

As the firm grows it develops qualities of a mammoth organisation, and often tends to overlook individuals and their contributions

Advice to Senior Management

Maintain focus and continue to expand as you envision, but do not overlook little things, and encourage middle management to keep the best interest of their reports in mind

Pros

Competitive pay, smaller groups, some great managers, a pure investment bank, great company outings, workhard playhard

Cons

Mostly great managers, however, my group seemed disinterested in mentoring/fostering/training the junior guys.

Advice to Senior Management

Executive management is a good as can be, doing the best they can to fend off the inaccurate and un-warrented attacks on the company.

Pros

Great learning experience and good exposure.

Cons

Lack in communication from Management. Too much work delegated to associates. High turn-over rate.

Pros

Awesome deal flow. One of the top names in tech investment banking

Cons

long hours, sometimes feels like we work well in excess of typical investment bankers (who already work a lot)

Advice to Senior Management

Good work, keep bringing in deals. Also keep an eye on overworked employees to make sure they dont get too burned out.

Pros

As the big 6 turned to the big 4 and then the big? Jefferies is strong, and will remain.

Cons

Compansation not as competitive as it should be. Could be more internal opportunity communicated more broadly.

Pros

It's an up and coming bank

Cons

The job I was hired to do was not rewarding, repetitive, and extremely boring

Pros

-Senior management extremely willing to teach new employees
-Clear company structure, no bureaucracy
-Good compensation
-Honest management
-Tuition Reimbursement
-

Cons

-Schedule not flexible for entry level positions
-Limited growth opportunities
-Hard to switch out of a particular group once settled

Advice to Senior Management

It would great for senior management to assign mentors to new employees. Allow new employees to explore different groups before assigning them to a specific area.

Pros

not many ----pay is at least in line with other firms

Cons

just for everyone's reference in the future ---probably should try to stay away from jefferies for summer internships---at least for trading
in fixed income they told us they would be hiring 70 to 80% of the analysts for the program----then even on the last day of the internship they told us they would hire 6 or 7 of the 10 interns----

to make matters worse, not only did they take an extra 3 weeks then they were supposed to to give offer decisions----but they only hired 2 people----

furthermore, the program is extremely unstructured---theres no formal training---and the whole mentality among people there has nothing to do with giving an intern a positions---there's no mentorship program---the EM desk literally told us from the start that they only hire people with experience---the advice is to stay away coming from someone that had offers at multiple BB programs and ended up obv. not getting an offer....

ranting because i just saw a video on their new careers site with their head of FI saying how they are now focusing on building internally via hiring junior people----when that is a bunch of crap (at least for fixed income)

extremely unprofessional HR treatment

Advice to Senior Management

get the intern program more organized---don't mislead kids into taking a position with the firm when there's an extremely small chance of getting hired----build a training program--support and have HR honor a date of commitment