Houlihan Lokey HC (Dallas)
Does anyone have insight with HL Dallas Healthcare group? How is the dealflow, total comp, culture etc?
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Toxic. Avoid. Take a Big Four offer before you go there.
I left within the past year and I am happier and healthier. Hours are insane. MDs don’t know your name. Saturday work is expected. Dallas VPs hard forward everything and throw you under the bus whenever they can. Other analysts are jerks. Some A2A’s are lazy and coast on their former reputation as analysts, and senior banker gratitude from not leaving the platform after 2 years like any talented banker would.
You will be on a ton of deals and nothing will fucking close. MDs will yell at you, not realizing how hard it is to sell a dental asset in this market when they’ve all gone tits up recently. Expect to be regularly insulted by MDs. HL HC is sincerely the worst place you can be.
Thanks for the great insight! I saw that someone left the group recently so I was curious to learn more about the culture. Did you work in the Dallas office specifically? More than happy send a PM to learn more
I was in Dallas. Avoid if you can. Go Big Four or Boutique. HL Dallas is not worth it.
Dude you didn’t leave you got canned 🤣🤣🤣🤣. Thanks for the laugh
Well... you kinda just proved his point on it being a shit culture. Great job asshole. Haha.
Also the pay is shit and they fire people two months before bonuses hit. Bonuses are shit despite record numbers.
Do you mind sharing base and bonus?
When I was looking to lateral a year ago, I had an analyst from the Chicago office warn me that Dallas was hell.
I have experience with the Dallas team too. That place, along with the rest of the HC group, is hell on earth. It has been like this for years and little to nothing has been done to change it. Be prepared to crank for 90-100 hours every week, and not waiting for comments type of work; I mean stuck to your seat for those hours.
It has huge turnover that is driven by some really awful MDs and VPs. Multiple people leave within the first year and a few in the first few months. The head of the group is a nice person and does care about the well-being of the junior team but just not enough to stop any of the abusive behavior from the senior team.
Base is in line with street. Bonus is well below.
Damn. What was the bonuses like in $$ terms? So if I had to choose, look into Chicago or New York over Dallas?
75% of base is the norm. 100% is for outliers.
They staff cross office so it doesn’t really matter which office your work out of.
HL M&A is a volume shop in the purest sense of the phrase. Welcome to working at a volume shop in a shit market....it aint gonna be pretty. You're gonna get staffed to death on deals that drag on forever and many wont even close. The first dude to comment got fired from the group so take with some salt.
Former analyst - Analyst to associates feel entitled and become lazy. Heard from other offices that Dallas throws everyone else under the bus (kinda true - at least those above analyst 3). VPs don’t add any value and create busy work to make the big dawg think they are working. Associate is a 4-5 year course, which is drastically different than all other banks. Late nights doing busy work for the senior guys to just scrap. Can’t say no or pushback to a client.
middle management is worthless in that office. Mentioned this in my exit interview and they noted it had been brought up before.
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Family member attended Texas MBA target (i.e., Rice/UT/SMU) and had a friend go there - didn’t last long - avoid
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