Start early and lateral or recruit for better firm?

I’m lucky enough to get a FT offer at TD this late in the cycle (no return from BB) but it has zero exit ops. Im thinking of continuing to recruit for a better opportunity since my main goal is to get PE when recruiting starts next august. The other option is to start in Jan at TD, recruit in June for lateral positions, then recruit for PE in august while hiding the fact that I worked at TD.

What would y’all advise me to do?

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