FT Top BB Tech Coverage in SF or FT Tech PE MF Analyst SF
I’m pretty torn between choosing to accept an offer from a top tech PE firm (not sure if it will be mostly sourcing or not since it's the first year the fund is opening Analyst positions) or a top BB where I have been placed in the technology coverage group.
I feel like if I work in IB for 2 years, I’ll get the reps and knowledge necessary to become a great investor (at the cost of my physical and mental sanity). On the other hand, I feel if I go to the tech PE firm, I’ll learn from the best tech investors and could probably stay for the long term, but I won’t have that BB right of passage/experience every associate has had to pass.
I’m leaning more towards the tech PE firm, but I’d love to hear your opinions/ideas.
MFPE
Thanks for the response, any insight on why tech MFPE is the way to go straight out of undergrad compared to top BB tech coverage?
Nowadays, MFPE programs have built out their training programs well enough to be on par with banking programs. Also, IB does not train you how to be an investor. As an analyst, all you're doing is learning financial modeling and making pitchbooks. With MFPE, your mentors are investors and will teach you how to be an investor. In IB, your mentors are bankers and will teach you how to be a salesman. There's no better place to learn how to be an investor than at a place that invests. Also, MFPE is considered the exit opp, but it does not limit your opportunities to jump elsewhere. You can go from PE to GE/VC/HF/Corp dev, and even if you wanted to jump to IB. I'd take BX/KKR/Apollo/Warburg/TPG over GS/MS/EVR/PJT any day.
What did you choose and why
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