Having City Investment Training on my CV was definitely helpful. When I initially applied to spring weeks, I was quite limited in terms of interviews I was getting. But after adding the training, I noticed a significant jump and secured a role with Goldman Sachs. I was working in leverage finance at GS and was exposed to leveraged buyout models. Having gone through building my own LBO with Sameer helped me massively on the job.

Some of the proprietary knowledge we gain at City Invesment Training such as the Goldman Sachs approach approach on pitching a stock in an interview was a game changer. This approach helped me land my first equity research summer internship at UBS.

During City Investment Training, I completed a project on Alibaba and Microsoft, and it absolutely helped me in interviews. When they asked about M&A transactions, I could give real examples with numbers and data. Understanding these deals definitely helped me build a much stronger profile. I'm now starting my internship at DB very soon—the training was essential.

I used the LinkedIn networking techniques and AI tools taught at City Investment Training to secure an unadvertised internship at a boutique investment bank. When I presented my Ferrari investment deck built with AI, the banker was blown away. Sameer's approach to AI in finance is truly cutting-edge.

I would never have gotten the Houlihan Lokey internship if I didn't know the stuff I learned during City Investment Training. People say 'just apply and get put on their training program'—but you're not going to get an interview if you don't know the technical stuff. In terms of knowledge gain, it's a lot better than university finance because you're actually building models yourself.

I attended the 8-week course in July 2023. Within the first week after finishing I had secured 4 separate interviews with various IB / PE firms and later converted one into a full-time role. Would highly recommend!

Following City Investment Training, I applied to many different places and eventually got to a point where I was consistently reaching final rounds. Within one month, I was in final rounds for multiple banks and managed to convert all of them. I chose Morgan Stanley as an Analyst in Investment Banking—the course prepared me very well for the technical aspect of the process.

City Investment Training made the biggest difference to my IB recruiting by sharpening my technical financial modelling + valuation skills and teaching me how to approach tests/interviews with structure. The AI tools/workflows also helped me build M&A/valuation materials and prep more efficiently without sounding scripted. Result: I secured an internship at HSBC.

The City Investment Training program really helped massively. The main differentiator for me between other candidates in the Berenberg interview process was the deep dive into a company I studied—Disney—which I covered in the program. I really got grilled on valuation and my DCF, and going through that in the program prepared me perfectly.

After City Investment Training, I went on to secure a role at HSBC’s investment bank as an off cycle intern. I had previously interviewed for the same position a year earlier and failed at the penultimate round because I didn’t have the technical experience they were looking for. The course gave me the exposure and practical skills I needed to interview with real confidence, and this time I went all the way to the assessment centre and converted the process into a full offer.