Wharton MBAs Enter A Bleak Job Market

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Desai had a Wall Street job offer in the bag at the time Lehman Brothers collapsed. Unfortunately, the offer was from Lehman. "They just bailed out Bear. Why would they let Lehman fall? It didn't make any sense," she recalls thinking. "Most of the class was not just worried about banking jobs. It was more 'If this can happen, what's next?' We just held our breath." After Barclays bought out the failed bank's U.S. business, it agreed to honor Lehman's offers to Wharton students. Desai turned hers down and landed at a boutique investment bank specializing in tech. Four years later she left for Google.