No PE Offer (2026)
Anyone else looking for PE Asso opportunities for C/O 2026 that still don't have offers?
Been through a ton of deep processes / final rounds and never manage to land anything - it's kind of getting to me. Feels like I get dinged for any small thing and every new process I go into I just absolutely dread.
Just wondering if anyone is or was in a same spot lol (kind of just want to cope) and woud love to hear some success stories or advice on how to keep going. Feels like everyone around me is signing and maybe I'm just missing the mark here. At a pretty solid BB group and doing fine right now, but starting to feel like maybe I'm not cut out for this.
Most people I know across different banks / cities have not signed yet, think its totally normal and am sure more spots are going to open up in late summer / fall once firms finalize their headcount
You still have plenty of time for 2026... Definitely normal just keep pushing and learning from mistakes you've made in interviews.
In the exact same spot and keep telling myself the firm thats meant for me will want me. Feeling pretty discouraged but I know there is still a year to go
Yeah that's what I try to tell myself too, but it's so mentally draining to go through so many rounds to get cut. Hopefully we both land something soon
PE is done as an asset class. Don't worry about it.
There he isss right on schedule
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Tell us your secrets oh wise one! You have been where I have not, have seen what I have not, show me your ways!
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Absolutely no one should be going into PE anymore. Read the Wired article: How Private Equity Killed the American Dream. It's not investing; it's value extraction. And it no longer makes sense... simple math. Stop deluding yourselves that it was ever a viable way to make a living.
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