Her Story
About Priyanshi
Going back to high school, I knew that I was really interested in economics and politics. I have an international background personally because I was born in London, I grew up in India, and then we moved to the U.S. when I was around [AGE]. I always knew that I wanted to be in more of a global field of study and career. After thinking through my options, I chose business and ended up going to NYU because of the study abroad opportunities they give. Before coming to NYU, I actually didn't know what investment banking was. I just knew I wanted to do something that was ambitious, rigorous, and exciting for me. Once I got there, I talked to upperclassmen and people, and I found out that there was this thing called investment banking where you can work with clients and work on deals that are very fast-paced, and I really enjoyed that. The biggest part for me was you can work with clients in any industry when you're an investment banker - communications, retail, defense, any kind of industry you can think of. I found out about Natixis through LinkedIn, applied, got the interview, went through the process, and really loved the internship, especially because it's a rotational program so I got to try all the different parts of investment banking during my internship. My major is business and political economy, so we focused a lot on how political economy intersects with business. The way that translated to my internship was I was put in global trade because we focus a lot on macroeconomic indicators when we're facilitating companies that do global trade.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Priyanshi
01What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in your field right now?
I think the biggest challenge is I don't come from a family that has a business background. Most people in my family don't pursue finance, so in the beginning, especially trying to learn about the industry, it was very hard to even communicate in that language. Initially, that was very difficult for me. On top of that, my major is not finance heavy - it's general business plus economics and politics, but I had to learn a lot specifically in the financial services field when I was starting out in my internship. I will say the environment was very welcoming and very forthcoming to teaching me all of even the basic foundational things during my internship. Another thing is just getting used to corporate life - waking up, doing it every single day, sometimes staying later, just adjusting to that new lifestyle was hard.
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