Blair SF - Technology
Saw an online posting for an experienced analyst role for their Tech SF office. Any thoughts on this group? Culture, hours, deal flow?
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Think most of their activities are based in Chicago. The tech team in SF might be really small and doesn’t have too much modeling responsibilities
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Dude you've got to be kidding. Blair absolutely destroys MM software in sf - they close 100+ deals per year in that office (it's one of their selling points in all of their recruiting presentations). Admittedly they're small deals, but they're CONSTANTLY closing deals. OP you can expect to close 3+ deals (modeling and all) before kicking off PE recruiting if you aim for that.
The culture is amazing too. I didn't get an offer when I recruited there, but everyone seemed like they wanted to be my friend. It's one of the friendliest places I recruited at last year.
The one caveat to everything though - modeling in the MM isn't exactly easy. Many companies don't keep the best records, it's hard to find comps, etc... so your modeling experience will still be great at Blair, but it won't be as easy to learn the skill as if you were at a place like GS or something. Either way, if you're looking for a good balance of culture and experience then I'd HIGHLY recommend Blair SF.
Can we have a separate forum for those WB simps/interns. leave the words such as Crush, Top, Strong to we BB/EB analysts.
Nothing strong or complex about MM and maybe tune down a bit with your vanilla $300mm sell-side when we are busy at mega LBO. Pls feel free to ms.
Damn, dude. You must have a baseball bat for a wiener. You’re super cool.
Edgy.
The SF team has about the same number of analysts as Chicago and most the MD’s in tech actually work out of SF, with one of the co-heads there. The poster above has no clue what they are talking about regarding not doing modeling out of there lol. Headquarters and most of Blair’s headcount is in Chicago, but on a tech basis, about 1/3 in Chicago, 1/3 in SF and 1/3 split between Atlanta, Boston/ NY and Europe.
Also, this forum seems to have an outdated view of Blair’s deal size especially for tech. Their bread and butter is 400mish deals, but there’s been an absurd amount of $1B+ deals they have done over the past 2 years or so. Average deal size is likely closer to 700m due to the frequency of $1B+ deals. Just check their website honestly.
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