Interview PE after accepting offer?

Happy holidays and Merry Christmas! 

The scenarios I'm thinking of are:

1. Take interview, get offer, renege on firm I signed

2. Take interview, fail, no harm done but probably won't get another chance

3. Take interview, firm finds out, I get screwed with both companies (no idea how this would happen though)

4. Reject interview, ask to stay in touch, have a chance down the line

5. Reject interview, ask to stay in touch, no chance down the line

Would really appreciate any guidance on how to approach this. Thanks!

5 Comments
 

Reneging is fine, could only get in trouble if it was IB or other PE to PE

 

I know someone who reneged on an F500 CorpFin FLDP role for a PE analyst role. Never came up with the new firm, and it was a difficult conversation but the F500 didn’t contact the new employer. The F500 pried for details, but after my friend disclosed that it was a completely different role / industry they stopped. A few years later and they currently make probably 3x what they would have have in the program, so while it’s an individual decision it worked out in this case

 

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