Allen & Company LLC

Also Known As: Allen, Allen and Company, Allen and Co., Allen & Co, Allen & Company

Investment Banking

VAULT RANKINGS 2013

#22 Prestige

#32 Vault Banking 50

GENERAL INFO

Headquarters: New York, NY
1 office
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THE BUZZ…

• "Leading media bank"
• "Good in its niche market, but small and not an important player in the big picture"
• "For such a secretive company—they don't even have a Web site—they have done a great job of building a brand"
• "Inconsistent quality; prestigious name partner and a couple others"

NEWS AND UPDATES

Vault's Scoop

Uppers

Work on huge, high-profile deals

Downers

Workplace is male-dominated

ABOUT THIS COMPANY:

Allen’s singular status
How is Allen & Company unlike other banks? Let us count the ways: It has no website, no barrage of press releases touting recent deals, no sprawling menu of financial services, no research division, no employment contact and no formal recruiting process. What Allen & Company does have is a platinum reputation and serious mystique, earned over eight decades of semi-secretive, exclusive advisory and wealth management work with some of the biggest names in corporate America. The firm is an institutional broker and money manager for high-net-worth individuals, including the founding Allen family; it also provides M&A, underwriting and related advisory services. The firm regularly ranks as one of the top-25 M&A advisors by deal volume each year.

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Allen & Co. SALARIES

Allen & Company LLC salary & compensation reviews include all signing and year-end bonuses, vacation time and other perks and reimbursements that make up total compensation.

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Allen & Co. SURVEY SAYS

Nothing but winners
If you manage to join the ranks of the elite at Allen & Company, take heart—it’s a “wonderful firm” with management who are “kind and considerate of their employees,” insiders say. In turn, staffers are “very loyal.” And although it’s still largely a boys’ club, some women occupy high positions within the company.

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Getting Hired

Tips from the inside

Good luck
Though former CIA Director George Tenet landed a job as managing director with the firm, that doesn’t mean you’ll easily gain employment there. (Even the hiring of Tenet himself wasn’t announced in a company release and only leaked months later.) Needless to say, getting hired at Allen & Company is no small feat. The firm doesn’t publicize job openings, and the company’s human resources department doesn’t accept outside phone calls. The company will, though, accept resumes mailed to its headquarters. Experience is necessary, as the company generally hires only MBAs with at least a few years of work experience under their belt. Allen & Company Chairman Don Keough has said that those interested in landing a job at the firm should develop a broad range of interests, get some international experience and learn a foreign language. Naturally, media industry experience is a prerequisite. Intensive networking would seem to help as well.

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