Odyssey Investment Partners

The entire process was just super patronizing and made them look unsophisticated.

While interviewing for sophomore summer they asked me questions like "have you heard of private equity before?" "have you ever looked at the financial statements of a company before?" etc and seemed entirely uninterested in hearing about anything deeper, despite having specific PE deal experience on my resume that I mentioned in my intro. When I asked questions about their investment philosophy, how they thought about specific deals they've done, etc nobody gave any answers that felt remotely insightful beyond just an ELI5 of what an LBO is. Idk, maybe I'm just too much of a hardo.

Later in post-interview networking event one of the partners spent the whole time saying some borderline QAnon-level stuff about covid, the government, and the economy. Also seemed entirely oblivious to their audience, talking about how sophomore internships are uncommon in finance but they thought they would "try something innovative", and that they don't expect us to actually do anything meaningful during the internship, instead it's just pr so that we consider them for on-cycle. For context, they were talking to a room full of some of the biggest tryhards at a top target who all knew M&I cold, had past finance internships, were actively interviewing at top SM HFs, etc.

All the associates they brought felt like peaked-in-college washed-up frat bros who "could have gone somewhere like KKR if they wanted to, but felt they had more career growth opportunities here".