MF PE in India or solid GE in US?
'28 at US semi target, have a good SA offer at a GE shop (think k1), but also have a MF PE offer through nepo in India (think bx). Family wants me to take the latter but I want to work here. Any advice?
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If you want to work in the US this seems like a no brainer. Unlikely you will be able to come back to the US with only Indian work experience - but you can go the other way and move to India if you ever decide to.
‘27, originally from India, at a west coast target going to a BB. I’m pretty familiar with K1 and adjacent shops and would recommend spending a few years here before moving back home. Degree of responsibility and reps are pretty unparalleled compared to what you’d get in India and assume you’d always have one foot in the door for opportunities back home given you said you got bx through nepo. Could even try moving to something more recognizable in terms of traditional prestige full time which would help further
Stay in the US. A million different things can go wrong every time you switch firms in PE. If you go to India and something doesn’t work out with politics or team culture, it will be infinitely harder to get back to the US market and the experience will be worth almost nothing to US firms. At least in the US you can lateral and stay in a much higher paying market with more opportunity and continue to accrue high value work experience.
Only take the offer in India if you are good with never working in the US again and permanently relocating back to India.
How would this apply for an internship (eg you already have some US EB/BB experience but have some more time to do an internship)? How would it be looked at? I know there will be a discount, but a name like bx/warburg/advent still should carry some weight?
I think you should only do an internship at a firm where you’d ideally want to work full time. Re-recruiting for full time jobs senior year is very difficult in general as most seats are taken by people who did internships. If it’s a sophomore or freshman summer, then it doesn’t matter at all - anything finance related is additive.
Generally speaking, in India internships are valued at a steep discount. Most India-based firms tend to equate internships with 'spent the time doing the immaterial shit no one else wants to do'
In fact a brand name internship may actually work against you in some cases - perceived as a diva (ik doesn't make much sense but it is what it is)
Also most global shops don't really run structured internship programs - so do your due diligence before jumping right in
I meant the opposite - how would an indian internship at a mf look for US recruiting if you already have some US/EU EB/BB experience
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