0 GS IBD or Bain to build PE Resume 15 14y
+7 Critique my resume, advice? 4 14y
0 PE-backed IPOs 1 6y
0 PE Against the Ropes 2 14y
0 Sequoia Capital - Salary & Bonus Data 14y
+15 Rise of Super Angels - short, interesting article 1 14y
0 J. C. Flowers & Co. - Salary & Bonus Data 14y
+13 Interview Financial Analyst at Partners Group AG 16 6y
0 Apollo Global Management - Salary & Bonus - Private Equity Data 14y
+23 Excess cash flow formula 6 14y
0 Vice President - PE Firm Interviews? 4 14y
0 Sixpoint Partners.. anyone hear of them? 9 4y
+121 Non-Street Firm = Non-Street Comp 84 14y
0 Private Equity & American Dream 11 6y
0 Prestige of Undergrad degree and private equity 5 14y
0 Favorite PE Firm? 18 10y
0 Commodities focused PEs 8 14y
0 If Mitt Romney Gets Elected PE Firms Returning 30% IRRs for Teacher's Pension Funds? 1 14y
0 Africa - Key Performance Indictators(nontradtional) 5 6y
0 Credit Suisse Customized Fund Investment Group (CFIG) Interview 6 14y
0 PE Recruitment Cocktail Party 10 4y
0 first MM PE phone interview 3 14y
+4 Blackstone Sophomore Summer Analyst 28 9y
0 Blackstone Fund Accounting interview 3 9y
0 PE MO/BO position 1 14y
0 PE internship, better than nothing? 4 6y
0 How to reject tender offer in startups? 2 14y
0 PE FIRM in sights 5 14y
0 New Fund Marketing materials 1 14y
+23 PE Analyst 16 14y
0 Ares Private Equity--LA Office 7 9y
+7 Market view of Guy Hands / Terra Firma? 8 8y
0 Blackstone Entrepreneurs Network 1 14y
0 Why *private*? 4 14y
+12 Free Distressed ebook 5 14y
0 Private Equity 2011 Year in Review 3 14y
0 Private Equity or Corporate Finance/Development EXIT 3 14y
0 Why do PE Firms Issue Debt for their Own Holdings? (i.e. mezz) 6 14y
+13 Exiting PE: PE ---> Portfolio Company? 3 7y
0 MBA Summer Internship 1 14y
+15 Can I ask a Megafund client to coffee? 3 14y
0 Pre-MBA PE recruiting for unconventional candidates 10 13y
+72 why is it rare for post-MBA to get in PE without prior PE experience 39 9y
0 What exactly is the scope of private equity? 8 14y
+2 Private Equity Internship 4 6y
+6 GUYSSSSSSS SOME ONE RECRUIT THESE KIDS!!! 11 14y
+27 Who actually gets into MF PE? 9 9y
+31 Romney "looting" example - please explain these profits 26 14y
0 Vid: 4 Transactions of Bain Capital under Romney 6 14y
+6 Hey! - PE question 5 10y
+35 Private Equity Dissertation - Good topics? 17 9y
+4 Blue Orchard Finance 2 6y
0 Would you take this offer? 9 6y
+18 Modify Resume before PE interview? 4 14y
0 WSJ: "The buyout business has become downright mundane." 5 14y
+21 Mezzanine financing question 7 3y
+20 Should I tell IB partner about my intentions to move to PE? 5 14y
+15 Luxury brand integrating philanthropy as core business model 5 6y
+29 Years as an IBD analyst before PE - 2 vs 3 32 14y
0 Business Software & Services Companies Hedge Funds are Buying 0 14y
0 Social Media Finance / P2P Lending etc... 0 6y
+115 My Life - How I got into PE 45 6y
+2 Best resource for lower-middle market comparable analyses 3 14y
+5 Megafund Private Equity and Transcripts 8 3mo
0 Actual PE ranking for bonus 3 14y
+7 Things to consider when making a career move 1 14y
0 Lateral to BB or stay for MM PE 4 6y
+19 Analyst in Banking to Analyst in PE and PE structure 7 6y
+3 Relationships in PE 2 14y
+6 Most Difficult Transition 6 14y
0 Fortress CEO taking leave 0 14y
+25 Private Equity Firms DC 26 5y
+26 Breakdown of LBO exit strategies? 9 14y
0 Is this a dumb idea ? 9 14y
+7 Looking for friends/collaboration in the PE world... 3 6y
+11 Any VCs that Invest in Commercial Space Companies? 4 14y
+18 KKR vs. Blackstone vs. Carlyle 31 7y
0 Should I take this job or keep recruiting? 10 14y
+59 PE Interview Question - what would you invest in? 36 3y
0 Y Combinator 14 6y
0 Clueless PE Recruitment - "Target firms" & Modeling? 0 14y
0 MM Com Banking to PE 2 14y
0 Modeling Promote Question 0 14y
+23 Asian Megafund Private Equity Fund consideration - Help Needed 5 6y
+19 Due Diligence done on New Hires 7 14y
+13 preferred equity investment 5 7y
0 Credit Agricole sells PE unit 0 6y
+18 Infra Fund Interview 6 6y
0 PDI test 0 14y
0 Resource Land Holdings - Review Data 14y
+62 LBO Case Study Analysis 66 6y
+9 pe internship on resume 10 14y
+24 Just Raised an Angel round.... 19 14y
0 Birch Hill Equity Partners 3 14y
0 Does anyone know about Barclays BNRI? 5 11y
+21 Industrial PE firms 11 6y
0 Assignment from an MD of a PE fund 3 6y
0 FT Partners With Warner Music: France Telecom at it Again??? 1 6y
+17 Private Equity - Current high school student 10 10y
+40 Mainland China Opportunities post IB stint in USA 19 6y

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  • Moelis & Company 01 98.9%
  • JPMorgan 01 98.4%
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  • Goldman Sachs 02 97.3%

Overall Employee Satisfaction

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  • Evercore No 98.9%
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  • Banco Santander 02 97.8%
  • BMO Capital Markets 12 97.3%

Professional Growth Opportunities

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  • Moelis & Company 01 98.9%
  • Morgan Stanley 06 98.4%
  • Goldman Sachs 01 97.8%
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  • 2nd Year Analyst (25) $178
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  • 1st Year Analyst (84) $151
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