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More along the lines of if you take a job there will your experience be considered on par with traditional mega fund experience? Whether it be when searching for your next finance gig or MBA applications. Is it considered the same caliber of experience?

 

MF is about the scale of deals they do, not the fund size. So no.

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You are asking it sounds like if it is considered as sexy (to finance people) as BX/APO/KKR/Bain/CG/TPG. Answer: no

Context: if someone were to create a more recent tier list of PE shops by sexiness (again to finance people) TA would prob be in tiers 1B-1D with firms like EQT, CVC, probably below all the top US firms like the three aforementioned and also MDP/HF/CDR/LGP/Veritas/GTCR types.

Context L2: TA has the sourcing caveat which is viewed as unsexy

Critical point: socially, no one cares about anything related to this kind of consideration (alternatively, if a material % of your social circle cares about this kind of consideration, that may be a separate problem)

 

genuinely confused by TA - great performance, probably a ton of learning reps. comp is probably pretty good and culture doesn't seem too bad.

 but they seem to have a lot of churn at the associate level? looking at the Boston hc team and Boston tech team alone, nobody but one associate from the 2023 associate class remaining across both these groups. been pondering pe vs ge, and maybe this is a ta specific issue, but wondering if heavy sourcing model as an associate is really just a mid experience. 

 

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