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0 Permira SA 2026 2 8mo
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0 ECP Perspectives 1 8mo
0 Gryphon Investors - Interview - Generalist Data 8mo
+9 Stupid IC deadlines 6 8mo
+15 TPG Business Development 5 4mo
+7 Secondaries Comp / Culture In 2026 5 3mo
+81 Software bankers and PE investors: what’s the mood like? 24 8mo
+9 MF REPE or Top EB M&A -- thoughts? 2 8mo
+90 Are you American PE guys okay with what you’re doing? 26 8mo
+3 Apollo Building Better Companies 2026 5 8mo
0 Macquarie Group Limited ABN - Salary & Bonus - Private Equity Data 8mo
+14 CD&R - Updated Views 10 1w
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0 FDD at big four or infrastructure advisory at a big four 4 8mo
+14 Accel-KKR or StepStone? 11 8mo
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0 PE at an Insurance Company? 1 8mo
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+16 Hybrid capital exit opportunities 6 4mo
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+8 PE SBIC Funds? 5 8mo
0 acquisitions comp / career trajectory 1 8mo
+13 Madison Dearborn update 16 3w
+11 LP Quarterly Tracking 2 8mo
0 Oaktree Capital Management Sophomore Summer 2 8mo
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+20 what do you guys consider "good" money? 14 8mo
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+11 Deal Performance vs. Deal Experience 3 8mo
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  • Guggenheim Partners 02 97.9%
  • Morgan Stanley 06 97.4%

Overall Employee Satisfaction

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  • Morgan Stanley 02 99.0%
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  • Banco Santander 02 97.9%
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  • Morgan Stanley 05 98.4%
  • Goldman Sachs 01 97.9%
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