Best perks and nicest offices?
Fully acknowledge this is silly and doesn’t really matter but always fun to hear these (and get some ideas for the suggestion box, hah). A couple fun ones I’ve heard:
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UMM firm will give you a $5k stipend for a vacation when you reach your 5th anniversary
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MM firm where any ad hoc event at which there are 2 or more employees (breakfast/lunch/dinner/drinks/coffee) is covered by the firm
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A few MFs and UMMs have full kitchens and all meals catered exactly how you like
After 3 years at Agentis Capital (Vancouver & Toronto) they will give you a 3 month sabbatical (read: mental health break) if you're builtDIF and can make it to the 3 year mark.
$25 lunch (need to be in office)
$50 dinner (need to be in office)
Full loaded snack bar / kitchen
Brand new gym with complimentary personal trainer up to 2x a week
Ubers after 8pm
Reimburse phone bill
Pays for all travel expenses
Dollar for dollar 401K match
$2000 annually for health / massages / gym
Great insurance and covers full premium and deductible
Coinvest
20 days of PTO
In office M-F
What firm ?
Isn’t all of this pretty standard / table stakes at this point?
Yeah pretty much
Wow thats nearly ~20k in lunch and dinners per year. Do people usually use most of their daily food stipend?
Is this Summit?
Not sure about exact perks but KKR’s NY office is ridiculously nice — heard they have fully catered breakfast and lunch as well that’s phenomenal
A few more I’ve heard:
What firm is this?
Bump, Wtf is this firm. Or is this just general great benefits you’ve seen across multiple firms
How can I short this firm?
Could gentlemen's clubs count in the wellness stipend?
KKR’s Hudson Yards office looks like a fu*kn museum. Amazing food there too.
My small fund goes out for lunch weekly at pretty awesome restaurants. I know I’d offer the same perk if I ever ran a fund myself. Definitely jealous of some of the other perks in this thread though haha.
KKR’s NYC office has “maids/servants” that come to you if you need anything (e.g., food, snacks, coffee, etc.) when you push a button that’s at every desk inside an office.
I saw this first-hand when I went it during an interview. The MD interviewing me pushed a button and someone in a maid came in and brought back a soda at the MD’s request.
Not kidding.
Just stating the obvious, but please do not call them "maids/servants" in a professional setting.
Yep. I think the “help” or “your lacky” would be more polite.
eg do you mind asking your lacky to bring me a Coke Zero, just the can, dont need a glass. And make sure they bring a fucking napkin for the condensation.
After said lacky leaves, make sure you look at your host admiringly and say “it’s so wonderful what you do for these people.”
You’re right, bleeding heart PE Analyst. How insensitive of johnny. They are obviously Refreshment Operations professionals.
Bro. They were dressed in a maid black-and-white outfit/attire, like what a butler would wear. I wasn’t actually trying to be facetious with my labeling.
- Wellness subsidy with a very loose definition, i.e., can be used on gym membership, athleisure, classes/education, personal trainer etc you can be creative
- First class travel, stay at nice hotels. + occasional jet to tag along on
- Biz school prep expenses
- Top notch insurance coverage for free (no premiums, deductibles, etc.)
- Catered lunch on Mondays, free dinner whenever (not time limited)
- Occasional social events/team building
- Reimbursed subscription to major business news periodicals
i work at Sycamore Partners, we have some OK perks
- daily lunch from our choice of capital grill / mastros / avra a few more but i ussually go avra
- in the summer the company will give us stipends for Montauk houses and weekend Blade helicopters to and from the hamptons
- free apartment maid service
- we get an dating stipened that can be used for premium versions of hinge / tinder - i use it for onlyfans accounts
- complimentary golf tee times at several mid tier courses in the tristate area on the weekends and we have a program that fast tracks us for membership at Winged Foot and Sleepy Hollow
Are you telling us you don't even get 50% off employee discount for Stuart Weitzman before Valentine's Day?
Seems like cap
50% off what do you think this is KKR. Basically we get whatever we want from our portcos for free. Not that I am taking sweaters from talbots everyday but its a great perk when i need to get my great aunt a birthday present.
Anyone know the perks for KKR NYC apart from catering & nice offices? I.e., travel, benefits, wellness, etc.?
My boy from high school works in the KKR SF office and has said the perks are mid at best
- stale cereal in the pantry
- no Celsius or red bull energy drinks
- only $20 dollars food stipend
- only store brand seltzers in the fridge
- drink tickets at the holiday party (no open bar)
Travel is first / biz if 2+ hours. Benefits were good (good health plans with pretty low premiums), but nothing out of the norm
Sorry - is this just when traveling for work trips?
Can anyone comment on Vista's perks? Have heard really positive things about their fringe benefits (e.g., annual holiday party people get a car for being best "xyz role" of the year)
Have heard holiday party has some insane "awards" or whatever you want to call them, unlimited PTO, in-office only 3 days, and that they cover all healthcare, dental, vision, and gym memberships
Firm perks are so funny. Just give me some flexibility and pay me well.
…this is for a government job lol
What kind of govt job offers this
POTUS?
lot of public pensions have this; i know a few super smart people on the LP/public side who chose to work 35 hours a week still making $250k+ a year in MCOL cities, get insane gov't benefits (WFH 60% of time, free HC) and will retire at 55 with pension for life for them and family.
My fave which isn't eye poppingly expensive or whatever, but is pretty cool: we now have a proper barista-staffed fancy coffee machine in the office where the barista is there Tue-Thu until like 12 pm. Coffee is banging! Idk how long we'll keep it because it's on one of those wheelie things but I'll take it while it's here.
Do the perks differ between aso to partner where places give better or more benefits to a MD than aso?
at most places I think they’re mostly the same perks but at different “levels” ie associates get business class only if 2+ hours whereas partners get first class all the time, different $$$ amount for gym stipend, etc
Able to actually use your vacay days without getting railed by deal teams.
Reading some of the comments above, makes me realizing how cheap my employer is.
Bad side:
- £20 dinner allowance. Very rigid and if you overspend, it's on you
- Taxi back home only from 10pm
- Canteen for breakfast and lunch around £7-£10 per meal
- No free snacks or beverages
- Business class only for transcontinental flights or > 5 hours. It goes without saying that in Europe, you never travel business
Good side:
- Very good health insurance, never paid a penny for anything
- Very good pension so good way to reduce tax bill
- Up to 35 days annual leave and in theory they push you to take them (in practice, very different)
no free snacks or beverages is wild
Worst part being that the snacks or beverages available are more expensive than going down few floors and buying them at the Tesco/Sainsbury's.
Alternatively, you have free tap water.
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