Megafunds with best shot at reaching partner.
Basically the title,what megafund are actually conducive in terms of climbing up the ranks, and reaching the senior levels/ hopefully partner...
Warburg and Stonepeak
WP one of the most crowded
Stonepeak is a MF now?
Edit: nvm these are the infra guys, confused the name with Stone Point.
Basically non in 2024. You don't join a MF these days with the hopes of staying and becoming partner one day. A much better bet is joining a MM/UMM that has the potential of scaling to a MF one day.
Do they just not promote directors as much anymore?
Casual cope from 2nd year analyst who couldn’t hack it to secure a MF offer
Based
I would say the MFs that come the closest to such a goal would be Bain, WP, and Vista, all three MFs with a history of promoting from analysts to Partner. However, the Partner track is definitely far more extended than what it once was.
APO still if you can grind through the associates years and if you’re not a woman/useless lateral lol
Oh and if you are a sociopath
What excludes the women and laterals?
Realize the question was with regard to MFPE, but if you are truly optimizing for a potential partner track it’s important to note the angle of MM/UMM. These firms are usually smaller headcount-wise and are able give more attention to career development at the junior level. I’m at what I would consider to be MM/UMM and up until recently was the only associate. I was able to take on my VP’s responsibilities at my own pace and that makes the bridge to VP more manageable. The comp may be slightly less but oftentimes that’s reflected in less hours. I work about 65 hrs/week at the senior associate level.
If you’re looking for partner track it’s not going to be possible if you get burnt out in 5 years at a sweatshop/MF. If you can handle the hours more power to you, but just not what was most important for me and diminishing returns at the 90th percentile IMO. JMTC
BX or KKR
lol no?
I think you need to view your career in PE in 2 steps. 1) Associate -> VP / midlevel and 2) Midlevel -> Partner
Some firms 1 is easier and others 2 is easier
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