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Heard not so great things.


They lured bunch of college kids promising CVP level comp, support for recruiting, good culture etc. 

Heard bonus was somewhat disappointing, (~70k - not bad, but clearly not up to how much they made it sound like they’ll pay). Base I know of is 130k and signing was 35k.

Very, very long hours (all nighter equivalent once every week and midnight - 2am rest of week maybe except Friday. Plus, Sunday is a full workday).

They were like “unlike CVP, our seniors will go bat on your buyside recruiting if that’s what you want”, then basically shut them down for first on-cycle, and wasn’t super supportive.

I heard first analyst class’s exit was good to top tech focused PE/GE but don’t know further details.

 

Actually heard that they can be supportive of buyside recruiting. It's not CVP bad in terms of senior support but not as good as the support you might get at other EBs like MOE

 

Ofc hours are gonna be longer. It's a new shop that wants to aggressively get on mandates. What did you expect 10hr workdays lol?

For what it's worth, heard culture is collaborative albeit involves long hours but it's def not toxic if that makes sense.

 

toxic leadership creates toxic culture - handler is known to leave jobs in a messy fashion (ubs, bear stearns, cvp). im sure he's a good banker, but doesn't mean he's a good person or is capable of creating a firm / group with good culture. just based on whats being said on this thread, handler seems like a pretty meh person, esp to work under.

 

The Armis deal was pretty nice, they seem to be ServiceNow's bank too now 

 

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