Curious for some anecdotal benchmarking on carry DAW - by fund size, Associate / Senior Associate / VP / Principal / Partner (and clarify if your fund's Senior Associate is equivalent to Vice President) and which year in each bucket you are (VP1/VP2/VP3, etc.).
| +142 | What’s “the path” now? | 56 | 1d |
| +105 | Is Everyone Too Bearish on PE? | 34 | 6h |
| +48 | Why would anyone do PE in long term in 2026? | 13 | 1d |
| +37 | 3rd Year IB Analyst, Top Bucket, Still No PE Offer. What Would You Do? | 19 | 1d |
| +25 | Is This Normal in LLM PE | 10 | 5d |
| +24 | Q&A: What It’s Actually Like Working at an Independent (Fundless) Sponsor | 4 | 2d |
| +21 | UMM PE or High Paying Strat Finance? | 13 | 21h |
| +21 | Striking out in last rounds | 2 | 4d |
| +15 | Overwhelmed by amount of data / granularity | 3 | 2d |
| +15 | DELETE | 1 | 1d |
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