Goldman Sachs AIMS Private Equity
Anyone have any updated information about the group? Interested in hours / culture, especially as they compare to Investment Banking.
Anyone have any updated information about the group? Interested in hours / culture, especially as they compare to Investment Banking.
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My good friend from uni is in the group, and thought about trying to lateral in myself. Comp is essentially same as banking $110k/125k first and second year base; have heard they are on Jan bonus cycle so stubbed bonus of ~$30k for first years; ~$100k bonus for 2nd years. Hours seem to be some where around ~70 hours / week. Exits, this year and last, are good, several UMM/MF exits but also a good amount of analysts choosing to stay on.
Ignore this thread. This is coming from someone who actually turned down AIMS in SLC. The pay is nowhere close to IBD with 0 bonus like IBD. It's middle office and you will not get any looks from PE. The starting salary for an analyst in SLC for AIMS was ~65k base. Do not take this job if you want to do banking/PE. At first I thought oh this might be cool but contacted one of my school Alumni who is MD in AM there and he said job is a hole 15 feet underground. Don't do it
This is inaccurate - source, I'm a former analyst in the group. Total comp is equal to or greater than IBD. Exits to UMM and MF happen all the time (myself for example). Can’t speak to SLC but it’s inaccurate to characterize the whole group this way.
This is hilariously inaccurate. I personally know people at Warburg, TPG, Insight, and Blackstone who exited from their analyst gigs in AIMS PE. Do you even understand what coinvestments and secondaries are? They’re literally transactions haha. More people don’t gun for this seat because they don’t know about it, or have misconceptions like you do.