Overview
Introduction
Perella Weinberg is a prestigious independent investment banking that works on high-profile deals for clients like PayPal, Kraft Heinz, and T-Mobile. Its interns get an incredible amount of responsibility and hands-on experience, working on live deals with senior bankers and clients. The firm is committed to diversity, and has extensive D&I training programs.
Company Stats
Employer Type
Size
Featured Rankings
Major Departments
Major Office Locations
Employment Contact
Vault Verdict
Perella Weinberg is looking for hardworking, intelligent, ambitious, and coachable self-starters who are eager to learn and thrive in a fast-paced environment. The firm runs a valuable internship program, during which students are exposed to meaningful projects and have the opportunity to be a fully functional member of the team, getting a strong understanding of what it’s like to be a full-time banker. Perella Weinberg offers extensive career development opportunities for its full-time professionals—junior bankers receive excellent formal and informal mentoring, gain exposure to senior bankers and clients, and get experience in various verticals.
Hours can be long, as is expected in the industry, but there is a strong emphasis on work/life balance. And th...
About the Company
Founded in 2006, Perella Weinberg is an advisory-focused investment bank with expertise across mergers and acquisitions, restructuring and liability management, financing and capital markets advisory, and shareholder engagement, analytics, & activism. Its areas of industry coverage include consumer and retail, healthcare, energy and energy transition, industrials and infrastructure, financial services and fintech, and technology, telecom, and media.
Perella Weinberg provides strategic and financial advice to a broad client base, including corporations, institutions, governments, sovereign wealth funds, and the financial sponsor community. Today, the firm has approximately 700 employees with offices in New York, London, Houston, San Francisco, Paris, Los Angeles, Chicago, Calgary, Denver, and Munich.
Rece...
Employee Reviews
- “Strong emphasis on work/life balance, with a firmwide goal to have employees take their entire vacation. The benefits program is the best on the Street.”
- “The firm does a great job accommodating personal needs, such as paternity leave and the ability to observe religious holidays and attend family celebrations. Everyone is expected to take two one-week vacations per year. The only reason for the long hours is client demands, but that is to be expected in this industry. Everyone on the team goes a long way to optimize the effort and minimize the risk of unnecessary work.”
- “People respect vacation time at the junior level. Work/life balance is a little difficult given nature of the job, but people respect time outside of office. A lot of fun firm events!”
- “The firm is very supportive of vacation and protecting weekends unless absolutely necessary.”
Getting Hired Here
- “The firm does first-round interviews, and then candidates are invited to the office for a Super Day, which consists of four interviews. Candidates are ideally notified within 24 to 48 hours of their Super Day if they receive an offer. The firm is looking for intellectually curious individuals with a positive attitude and interest in learning.”
- “We do a first-round interview followed by an in-person Super Day. We're generally looking for well-rounded, collaborative people who have done very well in school.”
- “Ideal candidate is very intelligent, a self-starter, coachable, receptive to feedback, eager and willing to learn, able to figure things out on their own, hungry, looking to work hard, able to thrive in a fast-paced environment, and genuinely interested in the work.”
- “The firm is seeking hard-working, well rounded, honest individuals.”
Perks & Benefits