Hi everyone,I was curious if anyone has interned or worked at Merrill Lynch?..I will be interning this summer in Seattle. I am interested in asset management....but I am majoring in Comp. Sci with a econ minor....but wouldn't finance be a better major?

Expect some sleepless nights...

Thanks for the advice...lol =)

I was in a interview in merrill lynch london many years ago. Then 10 minutes into the interview the fire alarm went off. The big boss interviewing me looked irritated and told me it was another false alarm. 10 minutes later someone called into his office and told us to get out, IT WAS A REAL FIRE!!!. We got out, and a lot of smoke coming out of a room that people told was the computer room....well I did not get a job offer, but at least I can say it was a hot interview, I was almost on fire!

Well I worked at ML Asset Management (in IT), at the Plainsboro, NJ coporate campus for 2 and half years in the early to mid 90s, so I don't know how applicable my experience then is now. The enviornment was ok... got some good people and got some not so good people (just like most places). I did support a couple of MLAM fund managers & analysts in my role and they seem to know their stuff well, but I would have to say the pace wasn't all that intense, at least compared to my current gig at Morgan Stanley in NY. As far as I know most MLAM fund managers and analyst worked out of the Plainsboro, NJ HQ but not sure if that's still true and if it true how analytic would you work in Seattle be? One thing i liked was that IT was next to OPS, where they ONLY hired 18 to 19 y/o girls straight out of HS. That was something else.

Interviewed with MER and had a disagreement about the dependance of a five year semi-annually reseting cliquet on five year skew. None the less, my brief glimpse left me with a positive impression of thier operation. Collector- heartening to kow that some one of your calibre doesn't always get the spot.