Reality Nobody Tells You | How to get into Investment Banking with Four Clear Roadmaps

Only 100 front-office investment banking seats open in India every year. Across the entire country. In this video I walk you through 3 real paths that actually lead into investment banking in India — from someone who has worked in IB front office. No generic advice. No theory. Just the honest picture of what each path requires, how long it takes, and what the real odds are. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 WHAT'S COVERED 00:00 — The reality nobody tells you 01:00 — Front office vs middle office (this distinction changes everything) 02:17 — Path 1: IIT / SRCC → IIM ABC / ISB → Front-Office IB and The CA + MBA combination (underrated) 04:45 — Path 2: MBA → Big 4 Transaction Advisory → Domestic IB → MNC Bank 06:40 — Path 3: Mid-office at a global bank → Switch to front office 08:20 — The option most people in India never seriously consider (GMAT + foreign MBA) 10:00 Conclusion and Outro ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📥 FREE ROADMAP — Download the complete step-by-step roadmap for all 3 paths (what to do, when to do it, what to prioritise at each stage): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lSRY... ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔔 Subscribe for honest, practical content on finance careers in India — investment banking, private equity, equity research, and more. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ KEYWORDS: how to get into investment banking India, investment banking career India, IIM ABC investment banking, front office investment banking India, investment banking analyst India, Goldman Sachs India careers, JP Morgan India placement, IIM placements investment banking, Big 4 to investment banking India, CA investment banking India, GMAT investment banking abroad, investment banking salary India, how to become investment banker India, IIT IIM investment banking, boutique investment banking India ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ DISCLAIMER: This video is based on publicly available data and personal experience. Salary figures are approximate and based on 2024 industry data. This is not financial or career advice — always do your own research. #InvestmentBanking #InvestmentBankingIndia #FinanceCareer #IIMPlacement #FinanceJobs