r/financestudents rules, stats, and what to post

This is a community for people studying finance. The public description says it is the largest community for finance students and that the conversation covers recruiting, internships, networking, resume reviews, technicals, and career advice. So the people posting here are students working toward jobs in finance, and the people answering are usually students further along, recent grads, and professionals who remember the path.

The rule that decides almost everything here is “No Self-Promotion or Marketing”, because it bans marketing outright, not just loud marketing. “No Spam” backs that up by removing anything that looks like repeat promotion. “No AI-Generated Posts” is unusual and strict, it says you can use AI to refine your grammar but AI-written posts and bots are not allowed, so write every post yourself. “Avoid Product Recommendations” bans both asking whether to buy something and telling people to use a service, which closes the soft-sell path many marketers try. “No Piracy or Soliciting” rounds it out by blocking pirated material and solicitations, so do not offer or ask for anything for sale.

If you run a company that touches hiring, careers, or finance, treat this place as a room full of students who want honest help, not customers. The winning shape is a post where you give away real knowledge, like a plain explanation of how technical interviews work in finance, written in your own words with no links and no ask. Answer questions in the comments when you have genuine experience, and leave your company out of it entirely. If your post would still be worth reading if you got nothing back, it belongs here.

The obvious one is self-promotion, the rules name it directly, so any post that pushes your product, service, or company gets removed. Do not ask anyone to buy anything or recommend that they use your service, because “Avoid Product Recommendations” covers both directions of that. Do not post AI-written content, the rules allow AI only for polishing grammar, so write your post yourself. Do not spam, meaning do not repeat the same message or drop the same link around the community. And do not solicit or share pirated material.

This is one of the strictest rooms I have written a guide for, because marketing is banned by name and AI-generated posts are banned by name too. That combination tells you the community wants real humans giving real answers, which honestly is the only kind of marketing worth doing anyway. My advice here is simple: write your post yourself, make it genuinely useful, and expect nothing in return.