Summer analyst season is in progress, and there are some written and unwritten rules for those vying for a gig on Wall Street (or in Midtown, in the case of Blackstone). Interns will do as others did before them: wear a cloud of cologne to a sports bar, block the street while heading to a lunch break at Pret, and don the somehow-still-popular uniform of a Patagonia vest. It’s tradition, after all.
But if these junior suits want to stick around past summer into SantaCon and live the full Murray Hill lifestyle they’ll have to play the game a certain way. President and chief operating officer at Blackstone Jon Gray explained as much, outlining the rules to making it—not just at the management company, but in the workforce as a whole.
