Built on 15+ years of Wall Street experience.
Wall Street Smart brings firsthand experience across investment banking, leveraged buyouts, distressed debt, and long-short equities to career guidance and financial education.
Experience across both banking and investing
Before founding Wall Street Smart, Yang spent more than 15 years across investment banking and hedge funds, with experience spanning M&A, leveraged buyouts, distressed debt, and long-short equities. That work meant sitting on both sides of the hiring table: being recruited, and later doing the recruiting.
The experience provided a perspective that extends beyond recruiting โ working through transactions and investments firsthand, seeing how different firms operate, and understanding what the job actually requires after the interview is over.
Wall Street Smart was built to bring that perspective into financial education โ starting from how the work is actually done, then working backward into interview-ready fluency.
Since founding Wall Street Smart, Yang has coached students into investment banking, private equity, and hedge fund roles, and mentored candidates into top MBA programs including Harvard, Stanford, and Wharton.
Career Background
Morgan Stanley ยท Barclays Capital ยท UBS Investment Bank ยท Piper Sandler
Buy-side and sell-side M&A advisory โ leveraged buyouts, corporate divestitures, and strategic acquisitions โ across multiple bulge bracket and boutique platforms.
Marathon Asset Management ยท Lighthouse Partners
Distressed debt, turnaround investing, and long-short equities across credit and equity strategies.
Founder, Wall Street Smart
1:1 coaching, consulting, and a full recruiting-to-technicals-to-on-the-job curriculum for students and career switchers.
From theory to practice.
Every program bridges the gap between textbook finance and what's actually asked in interviews and expected on the job โ so preparation doesn't end with the interview.
Recruiting
Learn how firms evaluate candidates and position your experience effectively โ resumes, mock interviews, and strategy built around how banks and funds actually screen.
Technicals
Accounting, corporate finance, valuation, trading & transaction comps, DCF, LBO, and accretion/dilution โ an understanding that goes beyond memorizing interview answers.
On the Job
Firm types, roles, deal flow, and career progression โ how firms, teams, and transactions actually work, so the offer is a start, not a finish line.
Choose how you want to learn
Whether you need targeted 1:1 help or a structured recruiting curriculum, explore the Wall Street Smart programs.
