GS IBD vs Apollo PE
Thoughts on which offer I should take? I have higher comp with GS but will probably be working less hours at Apollo
Edit: for some reason people think I’m lying, ok I have nothing to prove to you plebeians but for clarity sake:Aso1 in a Tier1 BB in NYC, got offered GS position a couple months ago but was given a very generous timeline to accept the offer.Apollo offer: Principal reached out to me and wants to poach me. He was my client a couple times before and I had developed a professional relationship with him also.
To my understanding, there's almost nothing quite like Apollo PE in terms of brutality and number of hours worked. These are two very different positions (congrats on both!), and if you really truly see yourself sticking it out at a cutthroat place like Apollo, then take that? Not sure what level you're recruiting at (I thought Apollo doesn't recruit analysts), though.
Given you'll be a janitor, I would take Apollo. I like the location on central park better.
how can someone be picking between these two offers - timeline wise I mean
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Get ready to be raw dogged by Leon Black on Epstein island for thinking this
Congrats. Putting aside the actual specific firms, sounds like you are also deciding between PE and IB. Do you have a preference on whether you prefer to be a professional investor or banker long-term? Good luck best wishes and happy new year
Honestly it’s hard, PE used to be a more lucrative and cushiony job with decent WLB. But ever since COVID, PE has become IB 2.0.
Now that we got IB pay bumps, I’m leaning more towards IB because at the end of the day I’m going to be working the same amount of hours but paid a whole lot more in IB.
I’ve alwags looked up to Apollo ever since I did my first internship, but now i just dont know what to do.
Also, I feel like I have a better chance of making it to VP ~~~> MD at GS than Aso—> Principal ->> MD at Apollo.
Do you or anyone have insight on how hard it is to climb the corporate ladder at Apollo?
Its hard, but it's not "hard". It's hard because the job is tough, the culture sucks, and it's beyond banking 2.0. And it doesn't really get that much better as you progress from aso to principal. I've heard bad stories. It's not hard because if you're one of the 2-3 associates in your class who road it out for 9.5 years, your'e rewarded with a partner seat. The rest of your associate class probably left for HF or other PE or something else, so it's mainly a question of "last man standing". If you grind it out for 9 years and do good work, you'll probably make partner, just look at linkedin. Some of their partners are early 30s. They don't have anyone over the age of 34 that's still a principal. No easy task though, that's for sure. Path from partner to sr partner is something I don't really know much about, but who cares -- the average partner in their PE group probably has mid to high 8 figures in carry
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