At this point, you would probably need a top MBA to make the switch. 11 years of experience is way too much to start as an Analyst, and they won’t hire you for Associate roles directly without previous IB/deal experience.

It is harder to win offers as a Canadian citizen, but the TN-1 visa helps a lot and gives you an advantage over applicants from most other countries because it’s much easier to get and less random than the H1-B visa. In practice, a good number of Canadian students do go to the U.S. for IB offers, and Canada is easily the most common country of origin in U.S. IB roles among non-U.S. citizens.

Thanks for adding that. I hesitate to write that one specific group or region has “the worst” hours or culture because these things change over time, and some of it is subjective and team-dependent. But yes, some groups are known for being consistently worse than others.

First, it is virtually impossible to work in Hong Kong unless you are a citizen of China with native-level proficiency in Mandarin Chinese. So that already eliminates everyone except for students from China.

Even if you had that proficiency and citizenship, however, HK would be far worse than the U.K. because there are fewer good buy-side roles there, working conditions are terrible, and HK is now under the complete control of the Chinese government, which means endless surveillance, quarantines, no privacy, etc.

So for 99% of people, the U.K. wins this easily. The only exception might be Chinese students who really want to return and work in that region in the long term.

Thanks. I’ll see what we can do (I believe several previous interviews have mentioned the process or explained some of the points but haven’t gone into detail).