Hello all. I have been lucky enough to receive a couple of BB/EB offers recently, and want to accept. However, I recently received an offer to interview with General Atlantic. I was wondering whether, if my long-term plans are geared towards eventually moving to PE/GE, it is worth trying to interview at GA and going directly into Growth Equity. Is IB training preferred/better?
Also, what is the reputation of GA. Is it a top MFish sort of firm? How is the comp relative to MF?
Thanks guys.
Bump.
IB training probably gives you more options
Anyone else?
I think it's upper MM (not quite megafund) territory. Is this summer or full-time? Either way, I would probably go to GA.
Edit: They are literally one of the top GE investors in the world - if you want to do PE/GE long-term, this is the place. Note that PE has most of the same exit opps at banking (corp. dev, VC/GE, strategy maybe, top b-schools). I was going to say with the exception of HFs, but that is totally false - many people make the switch from PE -> top HFs as long as you can articulate an interest in the public markets (faster paced, can see results quicker, etc.)
GE isn't as operations focused as PE, if that matters. I personally think having IB training at a BB/EB is probably preferable to having training at GA. I also have heard GA's comp is below street, but this is only anecdotal
I disagree, growth equity is all about getting in the weeds with growing companies while buyouts (I assume that's what you mean by PE) is more focused on financial engineering (at least that's the common saying).
But in GE you take a smaller stake in the firm, so may not be as influential re:operations. Also, agree with Niners, LBO skillset is different and so it may be difficult to translate.
Niners, do you know what comp is like at GA relative to Street?
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