William Blair vs FT Partners
Which firm has the better exit opps? Blair or FT Partners? I'm talking about the London office......
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Blair. FT Partners does terrific in the FinTech space but Blair has the better brand name.
FT Partners' London office started 2 years ago and is growing rapidly but it doesn't have the same reputation and tenure that William Blair would have in London. Also, FT Partners' London office has the most deal flow of any office and their analysts work really long hours. Blair I would assume would offer great deal flow and better hours.
Do you think (L)MM PE/Growth Equity will be possible? I don't care about any other exits beside them and maybe VC.
While you will definitely get the skills necessary to succeed in such jobs, I would think that the new presence of the office in London would make it harder to get these types of jobs compared to WB that will have alumni in these places.
I would suggest also going on LinkedIn and checking exits if you're curious.
Growth Equity is a lot more feasible compared to PE (even LMM) since FT Partners mainly focuses on capital raises.
Thanks! Are you currently employed at FT? Also, I'm especially interested in GE (even more than typical buyout shops) but how does the recruitment process work? Do I just approach former investors of our client's?
Headhunters will regularly email you and send you opportunities. They will often be in SF / NY for you to meet with them in-person and discuss what you want to pursue.
If you're a good analyst, the senior members might even refer you to some of the GE people they communicate with / have done deals with so you can get an interview (at least that's what I heard happens).
Had an MBA buddy who interned here over the summer as an associate who will not be going back fulltime due to the terrible culture so I'd be very cautious of this shop. Whereas they tried to be more hands-off when interacting with the summer analysts, they said that a lot of the fulltime guys would micro-manage the summer kids and make their lives miserable.
Your MBA buddy did not enjoy the longer hours compared to something like consulting, as well as some other things that you would find in almost every other IB. I know exactly who you're talking about though: very smart and nice guy.
I think your buddy and a contact I networked with worked in the same office as he also brought up the crazy extent to which some of the interns were being micro-managed this summer. Said that on the extreme end, one of the poor kids had to be taught how to keep track of investor related outreach and ended up spending an entire Friday night "learning" to write down who said what for 3+ hours. Not sure what kind of tracking was being done but it blows my mind that this can take so long to explain and learn. Overall takeaway from the convo was there are some shitty analysts at the firm who can really ruin your experience.
Damn haha props to that kid for making it through the summer. I would go insane if this was the type of shit I had to deal with
From what I heard about this story, there wasn't much else to do on that project so the intern was being given full responsibility this way, which is probably why it took some time to explain.
I find it hard to believe the interns were being micro managed considering how busy the analysts usually are. I can see this being the case though if the analyst is directly responsible for the intern's work.
Yeah, this story seems too exaggerated to be true. What level was the contact you networked with? I'd assume only an intern would talk about how they were managed and was probably complaining and exaggerating because his / her analyst wasn't letting them do whatever they wanted. Why would anyone spend their Friday night explaining anything like this to an intern for so long? The only things I could imagine are if someone senior asked for something regarding this urgently and the analyst needed the intern's help, the intern was literally asking for it, some sort of stress test to see if the interns could handle it, the analyst was some kind of perfectionist or just had nothing better to do on a Friday night (which doesn't really justify why this happened), the intern was trying too hard or had nothing better to do on a Friday night, the analyst wanted to relinquish all responsibilities regarding this as soon as they could, or someone senior forced her to teach the intern that night for something like a client call the next day. I think I spent way too much time thinking about this silly thing anyways. That being said, I don't expect an intern to retain anything on a Friday night.
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