<p>I'm starting my sophomore year this fall at Stanford and I'm interested in Investment Banking as a possible career after graduating. Can you recommend any literature that would give me a better idea on what the job entails and perhaps give me the knowledge necessary to ace an interview down the road.</p>
<p>Thank You,</p>
<p>-Eddie-</p>
<p>Check out the Vault's Guide to Finance Interviews and the Vault's Guide to investment Banking. They give a good overview of the career. There's also another one that talks about the top 50 i-banks. If you want actual books, you can ask mahras. He made a recommended list of books in the past. You might be able to search.</p>
<p>Monkey business is a good book, and goes into great detail the life of a banker.</p>
<p>Book recs I made are rather trading oriented but you might like them:</p>
<p>For those wanting to get into derivatives a great starting point is the Hull book. Its a college textbook but I really liked reading it. Pretty quantitative but can be read nonetheless.</p>
<p>Mahras, you are quite amazing :)
I bet you already have the skills needed to work in these fields.</p>
<p>Thanks. I dont know. Quant stuff uses math that I cant make sense of yet. I did get grilled by those math competition styled question at a hedge fund interview. :( I should have listened to my mom and stayed on the math team. Although if I was a model son I would be striving to be a doctor now hehe </p>
<p>Oh yes as for the vault guides...if you need all of them there is a trick process to get them. Dont want to outline it here so send a PM.</p>
<p>But I bet you know enough to get ahead, especially considering you know so much at your age.</p>
<p>Do you know any fictional books that involve i-banking? I mean books along the lines of John Grisham books.</p>
<p>None at all. The only book devoted to ibanking is really Monkey Business. Ibanking really isnt exciting enough to be written for books. Trading is and so you see a load of trading flicks but none about ibanking. I mean who wants to read about the "exciting, and ULTRArisky" job of making a pitchbook!</p>
<p>Monkey Business was good though, it's funny too.</p>
<p>the main character in American Psycho works M&A at an investment bank</p>
<p>Mahras, when you say trading, is that the kind of stuff you see in the movie Boiler Room (hectic, high-energy environment)? The movie mentions a lot of i-banks, so I thought maybe that's what it is. But then I always thought that stuff was what a stockbroker does.</p>
<p>Yea boiler room is the stuff stockbrokers do. Think of Wall Street (Gekko made money off of risk arb) or Rouge Trader (hated it but yea thats the stuff they do).</p>
<p>All though of all the "work environment" movie types ever made nothing beats office space. </p>
<p>"I'm thinking about taking that new chick from Logistics. If things go right I might be showing her my O-face. You know: Oh. Oh. " Classic!</p>
<p>Rouge Trader (hated it but yea thats the stuff they do)</p>
<p>Why did you hate it? I thought it's a great movie.</p>
<p>Nicholas Cage was an Investment banker in the family man, well before the movie turned on him.</p>