+18 Going into Direct Lending 12 4y
0 Gryphon Investors - Salary & Bonus - Mergers and Acquisitions Data 4y
+2 Internship to bigger fund 2 4y
+6 . 1 4y
0 University Venture Fund - Review - NA Data 4y
+33 Stay in banking or go to megafund? 13 4y
+6 Is it just me or was on-cycle really not that bad? 2 4y
0 Neuberger Berman - Salary & Bonus - Distressed Debt Data 4y
+6 1 Hr. PE Associate Model Test 6 4y
+1 Top quartile returns 3 4y
+7 Anywhere that’s been better than expected? MM/GE WLB 2 3y
+15 PE Returns and Investor Access to Funds? 5 4y
+13 ....11906446447 19 4y
+4 Gamut Capital Management Info 1 4y
+24 Dust Settled - Which Banks Placed Best? 60 4y
+16 Is Sixth Street a MF? 29 3y
+5 What is a Profit Sharing Plan? 14 4y
+6 PE comp associate 1 4y
+16 Feedback on On-Cycle Interview Performance 4 4y
+21 GE @ BB or UMM PE? 4 4y
+5 Latam accounting rules? 2 4y
+3 Delete 2 3y
+11 secondary advisory case study modelling test example? 7 11mo
+31 What’s the mega fund cutoff? 30 4y
+7 Blackstone RE SA 2023 Interview 3 4y
+6 Brookfield Capital Partners 7 4y
+4 Thoughts on Sixth Street Growth 3 3y
+6 PE Associate Comp Benchmarking 2 4y
0 QUESTION FOR LMM PE ASSOCIATES IN NY 3 4y
+7 How is Advent's technology group? 7 3y
0 Och-Ziff Capital Management Group - Review - Real Estate Data 4y
0 Och-Ziff Capital Management Group - Salary & Bonus - Real Estate Data 4y
+13 2022 - Off Cycle Recruiting 11 4y
+1 Butterfly Equity in LA 6 3y
+7 Modeling Test 1 4y
+11 Warburg Special Sits? 3 4y
+3 Switch to secondaries? 1 4y
+6 Moving from Public Debt to Private Debt 1 4y
0 Constellation Software Inc - Interview - Leveraged Buyouts Data 4y
+1 BayPine - PE Recruiting Info 8 3y
+9 MM PE rankings in Canada 23 4y
+3 Apollo PE 2023 3 4y
+6 Stuck out at oncycle 2023 7 4y
+3 How to prep for Investment memo 1 3y
+14 EVR M&A vs. BX PE vs. Moelis Generalist 20 4y
+6 GE on-cycle miss? 8 4y
+26 LBO Model Help 9 4y
+3 2023 1st year Private Credit Associate Comp Discussion 5 4y
+41 Laid Off - Question 14 2y
+7 Superday - What does HR mean??? 21 4y
0 2023 oncycle for international students 9 4y
+239 My on-cycle experience / guide 55 9mo
0 EQT Partners - Review - Generalist Data 4y
0 EQT Partners - Salary & Bonus - Generalist Data 4y
+3 Blackstone Private Equity 2022 1 4y
+12 Am I stuck forever in this MM PE fund? 1 4y
+3 How to prepare for Private Credit Interview as a freshmen? 1 4y
+22 Best OCR HH firms for MF/UMM (for future reference) 6 4y
+311 2023 On-cycle is a disaster 81 3y
+3 KKR C&PG Inquiry 1 4y
+3 MM Midwest IB -> MF PE? 1 4y
+3 Equity for Healthcare 1 4y
0 Ardian - Review - Generalist Data 4y
+3 MBB On-Cycle 2023 9 4y
0 Ardian - Salary & Bonus - Generalist Data 4y
+16 NYU prelaw student & military veteran looking for a job 5 4y
+24 Berkshire / THL Thoughts? 15 4y
0 Monomoy Capital Partners - Interview - Leveraged Buyouts Data 4y
+6 Most aggressive PE firms? 7 4y
+1 3-Month SOFR Curve 8 4y
+9 Apollo's Energy Group? 7 4y
+142 Unpopular opinion: any firm that wants to interview you at midnight is not firm you want to work for 45 4y
+3 Market PE Associate Comp 6 4y
+3 Seats left for off-cycle once the dust settles 1 4y
+3 Technicals from On-Cycle 13 4y
0 Anyone go from PE to corporate development? 1 4y
+8 Working for Brand / E-Comm Aggregators? 3 4y
0 Special Situations 2 4y
+3 Sixth Street Infrastructure 1 4y
+1 Sixth Street 10 4y
+95 2023 1st Year Associate Comp Discussion 259 3y
+6 Articles / opinions on LBO financing 1 4y
+7 Do Latin honors matter for recruiting for 2nd & 3rd jobs? 10 4y
0 Offer from Bain Capital - Should I take it 1 4y
+8 Offer from Bain Capital - Should I take it 18 4y
+7 SK Capital 13 1y
0 Defeated by on cycle 1 4y
0 Insight on some MM funds? 2 4y
+6 Odyssey comp report 23 4y
+3 Is it possible to lateral from a no name boutique to a mega fund? 1 4y
+6 Why do MF recruit this way? 2 4y
0 Blackstone Tac Opps First Round SA 2023 9 3y
+3 Additional Info on Dragoneer 1 4y
+4 Under the Radar Firms Killing It 4 4y
+9 Thought I might as well try recruiting for full time PE out of undergrad, which jobs at KKR, Blackstone, etc can I apply for? 3 4y
+16 Special situations / FIG / Balance sheet (ROIC not EBITDA) investing - what does this mean? 7 1y
+6 PE on cycle 2023 tiers 2 4y
+10 On-Cycle Recruiting as a 2nd Year 2 4y
+13 Confidentiality when recruiting? 3 4y
+16 Do HH actually care about SAT/GMAT score for PE recruiting? 19 3y

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  • Guggenheim Partners 02 97.9%
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  • Morgan Stanley 02 99.0%
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  • Banco Santander 04 97.9%
  • BMO Capital Markets 13 97.4%

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  • Moelis & Company 01 99.0%
  • Morgan Stanley 05 98.4%
  • Goldman Sachs 01 97.9%
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