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A prestigious independent investment banking firm, PJT Partners offers its interns a lot of responsibility and the opportunity to work on high-profile live deals alongside senior bankers. Full-time junior bankers get a lot of responsibility on deals, work closely with seniors bankers, and participate in client calls. Recently, the firm significantly increased its philanthropy and CSR efforts, and started giving diversity scholarships.
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A very prestigious independent investment banking firm, PJT Partners is ideally looking for driven, hardworking, intellectually curious, adaptable, team-oriented, down-to-earth candidates with strong communication, analytical, and technical skills—and the potential to become partners. For students, the firm runs an extremely rewarding and valuable internship program. Interns get significant hands-on experience on live deals, exposure to senior bankers, and access to a great mentorship program culture, which provides a ton of guidance and support. For its full-time junior professionals, PJT Partners offers extensive career development and growth opportunities, including a culture that encourages and invests in learning and skill development, early responsibility on high-profile tra...
About the Company
PJT Partners is a global advisory-focused investment bank headquartered in New York, with additional offices in Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, Madrid, Paris, Frankfurt, Munich, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Dubai, and Riyadh. The firm was created in October 2015 after Blackstone’s advisory businesses merged with PJT Capital LP, a financial advisory firm founded by Paul J. Taubman in 2013, and simultaneously spun off to become an independent public company. The new company began trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “PJT” on October 1, 2015.
PJT Partners operates through the following business units: Strategic Advisory, including PJT Camberview, Restructuring and Special Situations, and PJT Park Hill.
PJT’s Strategic Advisory business is led by an experienced te...
Employee Reviews
- “Although the work is demanding, the firm is excellent about working hard to produce extremely high-quality work efficiently, then enjoying your personal life. While people are very respectful of your personal time, they also have high expectations for your work product and expect you to take ownership and prioritize work when necessary. PJT is certainly above average about respecting personal time, especially if you’re producing quality work.”
- “The firm provides remote periods in August (three weeks), the week of Thanksgiving, and end of December. These are greatly appreciated. PJT employees are extremely busy year-round, so offering this flexibility allows for some ‘found-time’ in the times of year where other businesses would naturally slow down. It’s a huge benefit and extraordinarily important to employee morale and perception of the firm. There are also ongoing touchpoint efforts: weekly lunches, weekly summer happy hours on the roof deck of the NYC office, etc.”
- “PJT leadership makes an effort to enable people to take time off and provides a lot of flexibility around things like hours/days in-office, which has improved quality of life as we have more optionality to work from home if needed. Unfortunately, client service hours and unpredictability are always going to present a challenge, but I think PJT does a good job trying to help manage this within teams.”
- “People work very hard at the firm, but people are people at this firm. Senior leaders are understanding of outside commitments and responsibilities, especially when people have young families. Ultimately, banking is a tough industry that makes it tough to be fully able to have great work/life balance. There are long nights and weekend work, which comes with the territory. But teams are pretty understanding. They don't try to create unnecessary work and try to be considerate of your weekends."
Getting Hired Here
- “PJT seeks candidates who are highly driven, intellectually curious, and possess strong analytical skills. They should excel in a fast-paced environment, demonstrating both a strong work ethic and the ability to think critically under pressure. Ideal candidates are team players with strong communication skills, showing confidence in working with clients and senior professionals. Adaptability, attention to detail, and the ability to balance multiple tasks effectively are crucial, as well as a genuine interest in finance, business strategy, and problem-solving.
- “We are seeking candidates who are team-oriented and want to get into investment banking for the right reasons (i.e., intellectual curiosity/interest in the industry). Intelligence and technical abilities are a prerequisite.”
- “Looking for hardworking, collaborative, genuinely down-to-earth, highly motivated, and friendly individuals who have strong technical abilities and truly want to be at PJT team player.”
- “I was recruited out of MBA. The process was smooth and similar to other firms. Ideal candidates care about their work product and client’s success, are down -to-earth, well-rounded, hard-working, and have potential to become a partner one day.”
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