Internships
How banking internships actually work, and everything it takes to get one: the cycle, the applications, networking, the interviews and the offer at the end.
Banks fill their graduate classes largely out of their own interns, so the internship is the application. What varies is when you have to apply for it, and the answer depends more on the city than on the bank.
Every large bank runs roughly the same funnel, and each stage filters for something different.
Networking is how a CV becomes a person to the banker reading it. It matters most for exactly the candidates the online process is worst at seeing - students outside the target list, career changers, anyone aiming at a small firm or an off-cycle seat - and it matters less in London than in New York.
The question bank, and notes on the three things an interview actually divides into.
The end of the process has its own rules. The internship ends in a return offer or not, offers arrive with deadlines that do not wait for other banks, and accepting one and later walking away has costs worth knowing before you sign.