Monkey Business
Swinging Through the Wall Street Jungle

A very candid and hilarious insider's tell-all (or at least something). The sad part is that today the money is less and the work hard part is as hard as ever. Love how the associates in question established that the copy center and the formatting guys are the most important and routinely underavlue......more

This is an incredible book written by 2 Associates who used to work at DLJ back in the day and is the most accurate book I have ever come across for anyone to get a full understanding of what the life of an investment banker consists of. This is one of those books I wish I would have read in college......more

A conversation with some juniors over lunch today reminded me of this book which I've read a long time ago when I landed myself into a front-line banking role. Strangely enough, it was my boss then who loaned this book to me. A brutally honest and startlingly eye-opening account, I'll recommend any n......more

Really good read. A bit a crude at times but very interesting to get an inside perspective of banking when you're lowest on the totem pole. It was unfortunate that they didn't talk much about WHAT they did, but the culture was interesting.......more

I started reading this book because I was seeing a finance guy at the time, not quite the typical i-banker but stil had no life working for Citigroup. I subsequently was relieved it didn't work out...not sure I ever really want to be involved with an i-banker after reading this.........more