Intern Email

The email outlines 10 rules for interns at a banking group called Power, including expectations around conservative dress, long hours, bringing in food and supplies for others, and signing in/out of the office. It emphasizes the internship is a full commitment for a potential full-time offer, and recommends reading material on social cues and a sample LBO model.

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Wednesday,

June 3, 2015 at 3:54:55 PM Eastern Daylight Time

From: Kwan, Justin: Banking (NYK)
Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2015 11:16
Subject: Welcome to the Jungle

Incoming Intern Class of 2015,

Welcome to Power! I am sure you are all busy at training, but in the interest of helping your transition into
the summer, and hopefully helping some of you secure Full-Time offers, I wanted to introduce you to the
10 Power Commandments. Respect them, love them, live them. You may have heard different stories
about Barclays Power - go on WSO and you'll see us called the "frattiest group", "top Power group on the
street", or the group with the "best PE placement" - needless to say we are a unique group at Barclays. And
with that come unique rules.
For 9 weeks you will live and die by these:

1. Our group dresses very conservatively. Given that it is
summer, no socks is accepted and, in fact, encouraged. (Men: On your first day at the desk, it is customary
to wear a bowtie and/or suspenders).

2. Remember: this is a summer internship for a full-time offer.
It won't be easy. If you can't handle the heat, get out of the kitchen.

3. We expect you to be the last ones to leave every night...no
matter what. That's what good summer analysts do. (Also getting in earlier than me would be a power
move - You should enjoy your casual 9:15AM PT arrival time this Friday, but I wouldn't get used to it).

4. During your first few weeks we ask that you direct all of
your questions to Michael Lomio. Tell the other summers too, Michael is industry agnostic. If you ask me a
question it will be noted.

5. Never take your jacket off at work. This is investment
banking, ladies and gentlemen. Other groups may be more liberal when it comes to summer dress code,
unfortunately were not

6. You will be assigned junior "mentors". It is much appreciated
if you would bring breakfast in for your respective "mentor." Some people are more particular about this
than others.

7. I recommend bringing a pillow to the office (yoga mat works
as well). It makes sleeping under your desk alot more comfortable, in the very likely scenario that you have
to do that.

8. You are expected to allocate at least half your seamless web
order for group appetizers/snacks for the month of June. No questions asked. Once the 2nd years leave,
you can enjoy your $25 allocations.

9. Have a spare tie/scarf or two around. You never know when
your associate will run out of napkins.

10. When you need to leave your desk there will be a sign out sheet
outside your cubes. Please fill it out including where you went and for how long. This is important come the

end of your internship.

I hope it is clear from the rules above that the internship really is a 9-week commitment at the desk. You
are here with the sole goal to impress the group enough to receive a FT offer. During my summer in the
group an intern asked our staffer for a weekend off for a family reunion - he was told he could go. He was
also asked to hand in his blackberry and pack up his desk.

Some of you have asked for training materials to study up on before you start. Love the enthusiasm. First, I
would recommend reading the GS Elevator twitter feed for some social cues. It might be seen as a joke to
some people, but around here I think many people find it insightful. Below is a link to a great read for any
dress questions.

Dress Rules:

http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-dress-the-part-on-wall-street-2013-8

Second, I have attached a fairly simple LBO for Staples. Understand this will be a bit tough for some of you
without a Finance / UG business degree, but we believe in you. There's a reason each of you was picked for
the group. We expect you to give this your best shot and send us a completed LBO model with a short write
up by Friday end of day. None of you will have this 100% correct, that's expected. We also still expect you
to complete a significant portion of it.

Welcome to the big leagues, boys and girls. Play time is over and it's time to buckle up. Once you hit the
desk, your lives will be your work for 9 weeks. Please respond promptly to acknowledge you've received
this e-mail (anytime in the next half hour would be fine) and to confirm that you are onboard for the
summer. We know you have access to e-mail, so there's no way to avoid this. If I remember correctly, you
are probably doing training with Sean Clovey from IT, or Market Mark from TTS.

Other than that, I look forward to meeting you all, and I hope you're excited to join the group! We sure are
looking forward to having you here!

Yours Truly,

Justin

P.S. There are a number of typos in place in the email above. These are on purpose. First person to email
me back with at least 3 highlighted typos is off to a GREAT start!