Hedge Fund or Special Situations Fund?? (Soph Summer)

Need advice choosing between a special situations fund at a very large firm (5bn AUM fund but the entire company is over 300bn AUM) and a 4bn AUM L/S hedge fund. I don't really care about comp just wanna learn about investing. I'm worried that I won't learn much at a larger fund. But, I might recruit for rx junior summer. Which one would teach me more?

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U have Any advice for landing sophomore roles other than GWI, connections?

 

thats been the plan, getting some leads for l/s, but did you email large asset managers to for special sits?

 

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