Which offer would you go with

Have a FT offer from HW and another mid-sized buy-side firm. Don't like IB and will be looking to leave for buy-side in 2 years. Would it be better to just go to buy-side from the start, especially since HW's exits don't seem that great or would the IB experience somehow dramatically help

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Depends what you mean by mid-sized...if it's a genuinely solid MM PE firm, go for it without a doubt. I find it very hard to commit to any firm with under 100 employees right out of undergrad personally. I'm sure I may be missing out but its just too risky for me and I don't know enough so early on to take that sort of risk with my career.

 

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