I was wondering if anyone has any credible information on what kind of hours analysts (hired directly out of undergrad) work at Blackstone PE. I am hearing lots of different responses on this, ranging from 'worse than IB' to '50-60', but I would really appreciate information specific to Blackstone, since I'm sure firms vary a lot.
Thanks very much.
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Who told you 50-60? Hahahaha.
Try worse than IB. I've seen these guys in action and they're inhuman. All of them are incredibly smart and know their **** backwards and forwards. Intense place to work, crazy hours, demanding people.
I've heard 120 a week
@#%@ that; if you do that shit you can't possibly love yourself
120 each week is an inflated number. On the whole, hours are a bit higher than for BB IB.
Blackstone analysts work brutal hours, don't make a lot, and have non-existent social lives.
Don't make a lot? Relative to what?
At all levels and across comparable groups, Blackstone pays more than BBs.
What are the pre-mba associate and post-MBA associate hours? And for that matter, VP?
"Blackstone analysts work brutal hours, don't make a lot, and have non-existent social lives."
Yes they work more than BBs, but they are paid more and have better exit opps. It's a tradeoff.
What exit opp could you want after Blackstone? I mean, wouldn't you just want to continue? Incidentally, what do the couple of kids who get hired straight from undergrad do afterwards?
But, I know the hours are not very good. Pretty intense, expected for larger PE firms.
Give a timeline of the avg. Blackstone analyst... starting Monday morning.
For post-undergrad hires, I think the very few who end up in Blackstone's PE group aren't looking for a pre-bschool exit opp. However, most post-undergrad hires at Blackstone work in corporate finance, and thus are looking at a lot of the same exit opps as folks from BB IB or MBB that are interested in PE.
Out of the five candidates present when I did my third round interview with Bain Cap, one had spent two years in Blackstone corp fin.
That's interesting. My team has a 3rd year from Wharton who said his friend who went to Blackstone made quite a bit during his 3 years there, but then went off to a small PE fund. I thought that was interesting since I always thought they'd jump to a KKR or something. Or just stay at Blackstone. Wondering what the 'norm' is, but I am sure that's notoriously hard to figure out since we're working from a n in the low teens.
Also, I heard they recently hired a McKinsey guy, so its not all ex-bankers there.
What are the exit opportunities for BX Corp Finance analysts? Are they ranked on par with analysts from GS/MS? Also, do they also do alot of LBO work (advising BX)?
Blackstone PE Hours (Originally Posted: 01/10/2011)
What are the hours for BX straight out of undergrad analyst for PE?
Is it really more than the hours for IBD? ...110/wk?
I've heard it's comparable to IB, but even in IB a 110/wk is not very common at all.
The person I talked to who used to work there said his hours were typically 9-11:30 PM and usually less than that over the weekends.
+1 I have a friend in blackstone PE, her hours are "similiar, if not more than IBD"
I've heard it's a lot less than the IBD. I was interviewing for an analyst spot there out of UG a few years back and all the guys I spoke with during the process (obviously they were personal contacts, not interviewers) told me that the hours weren't as rough as blackstone IB. These were all in London office though, not sure about about NYC
I dunno about BX M&A, but BX RX has great hours...
what sort of hours does "great" mean in this case?
Ummm... no, you don't know about BX restructuring either.
Not sure that BX Restructuring is generally known to have "great" hours at all.
Their Boston office (which I think is tech M&A?) is supposed to be particularly brutal...
So whats the conclusion? More or less?
Yes, more or less.
randombetch, pathetic much? You must have felt really wise when writing that, but its really sub-princeton...maybe duke.
How dare you compare me to Duke. pukes
you're both fking tools, get a job you goddamn bluebloods
It's around 4 p.m. on your christmas break and you two clowns are arguing about who went to a better school? If you are constantly on this forum and not just killing time at work or looking for resume/interview critiques then you have some serious social problems...You 2 clowns are about to get slapped with the bick dick of the real world and wish you didn't spend your "Glory Daze" (gotta love stankowski), arguing about pedigree over the internet.
No one's arguing about pedigree (who would argue Duke > Princeton?) - reread the troll's post.
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