Partners Group 2025 Analyst Program - Zug
Applications started way back in July, but sadly still haven't heard anything yet, hopefully this month Has anyone had their interviews yet?
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Had my 1st round interview early last week
How was it? Can you elaborate?
Very commercial-oriented, light technicals
Hey, I've my first round for the graduate financial analyst in Zug tomorrow, any tips ?
Yes don’t join
Are they still interviewing?
How many rounds total is the process?
3 rounds. They’re on the 2nd at the moment.
Have you heard back about superday/third round?
Bump
Any update about Superday??
If Im not mistaken, the invites have been sent
According to who? Guess I am rejected then…
No they haven’t…
BS
There are around 5 people who have posted here last couple of days.
Round 2 interviews are pretty expensive as they involve Senior Associates etc. So a lot of filtering is done beforehand.
A 0/5 success rate on this forum seems very unlikely. Much more likely is that they have not yet sent invites.
5 people on WSO spamming means they interviewed at least 60-70 people
True, but if you had received an invitation, would you be here looking for an answer for the question if you already knew the answer?
Who did you hear this from?
I just received a rejection boys
Same.
I guess now its the time to start up an own PE fund
Can you share your rejection email ? Mine feels personal
What do you mean? What does yours say? PM me if you want
Just a traditional "Regrettably, after careful consideration, including our recent interview, we have decided to move forward with another candidate whose qualifications and experiences more closely align with the requirements of the role at this time."
Sorry guys.
What time exactly did you receive them?
Curious if they sent them out automatically - i.e. if all rejections have been sent
Rejected. Looks like we all got an L lol
Just got dinged too. Wtf who actually got the superday??!
Confirmed i got dinged too lmao
What time did everyone get dinged??
I got dinged at 8.56 CET today. Anyone else?
Anyone received an invitation?
No
Really wanna know this too
Bump
Anyone else not heard back? Wishing the best to everyone still waiting.
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Nothing yet. Still waiting.
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No update guys?
Nothing yet but in the first round email they said they would send out invitations the 15th
Are you also waiting to hear back?
Yeah still waiting, not sure if they’ve already sent them though and they haven’t sent out all the rejections yet
PM me
Me too - also waiting. Good luck to you.
I feel like it’s too little time now..they probably sent them - anyone heard anything from people at the firm / others who applied?
It will arrive either later today or tomorrow. They're not out yet, hold the line boys.
And how do you know this?
How do you know?
Are you sure? I haven’t heard back yet but am assuming the worst
Same, it’s fine if it was an online interview, but going to Zug with just a week’s notice is damn crazy.
Superdays are out boys.
Did you get one?
How do you know ?
A friend got it yesterday close to midnight. I didn't get it
What should we expect from the Superday?
A friend on mine got one around 9am CET
Are they rolling or if we haven’t heard back yet it means we’re rejected?
If you say that a friend of yours got his at 9:00AM today maybe I'm wrong and they haven't sent everything in a single batch. My friend got hers yesterday close to midnight
If it’s true that they sent them separately for men and women then it’s probably that, the male batch must have been this morning and the women one last night
How many people got the SD?
Ive heard that they are shrinking the Analyst class but not sure if true
Where did you get this info from?
Has anyone else still not heard back about super day?
Not yet. I don't know anyone who heard back either.
Not sure how credible the information in this thread is: there is one person who created multiple spam accounts and is posting fake news (account name was azi56940, deleted his account once someone pointed out that he was answering his own questions as "Associate 1 in Acct-Tax", multiple accounts that are spamming this thread were created just a few minutes after lol)
Nevertheless, if there is no news today, I think it is safe to assume that we are out
Have you guys heard back?
As a analyst, would you take PG over a top BB/EB in London?
Definitely not. You can get much better
That depends on your metrics. Do you care more about exit opportunities, salary, location, WLB, what work you would enjoy more, cultural fit with team...
I’d take Partners Group. Not that I have the option to, just got the ding. AND on a weekend 😭
Another fallen soldier
Can confirm I just got the ding too…
Hate this firm. Looks like a bunch of FAs were running recruitment this year, and they did a damn AWFUL job of it. Seem to just want women as part of their FA class - insulting to people that spent so much time recruiting for the firm. Absolutely no regard for diversity beyond just wanting females too.
Probably one of the whitest firms I’ve ever seen yet talks about D&I like they’re champions of it. Mark my words - their entire FA class is either gonna be (White) women or White European guys with so much experience that they should really be targeting the better programmes in London.
Before anyone goes on ranting: I’m white myself. Just showing their hypocrisy when it comes to D&I. Only seeing D&I through gender. Idiots. Absolutely shit firm. My bets are that some of these old Swiss bosses they have are absolutely racist too.
Anyone coming to superday?
What is total compensation for this position (base + bonus)?
You were there today weren’t you? It’s 140k CHF - how many people were selected for the Superday?
Yeah can you remind me how that scales as a 2nd year or as an associate if you know?
11 people (not counting previous interns, which would bring the total to 16)
Did SD on Fri - got LBO model test template (given) saved locally with instruction pack (this year + last) although identical structure. PM if I can help out with it for anyone applying next yr
So you cheated in the process lol - good thing you’re hiding behind a burner
Who didn’t lol games the game. They used same as prior cycle so everyone cheated or got someone else to help or send in solutions since it was not invigilated. I imagine few did it fairly and probably wouldn’t have too high quality
There’s diff between „helping out” and selling both for 350…
I can second that lots of ppl including myself used last cycle LBO test to our advantage. Unfortunate for those that didn’t have it but it is what it is. Wouldn’t recommend selling it though cos they can easily find out who u r through payment method and also template edit history…
Lol - its crazy how people will be dishonest with themselves and use a resource and basically kick out folks that actually do the work themselves. Salty af but I get thats life.
Did you hear back after the Superday?
No but look at the above ^
Loads cheated in the LBO test and someone is selling it…
They’re probably running investigations. Wouldn’t be surprised if they cancel a bunch of tests or get us to re-do a different case study. Decisions probably gonna take a while.
We all basically cheated so why not keep it to ourselves? Absolutely no need to be selling it straight away or publicising the fact you cheated / the LBO was same as last year??
This is crazy man. Ngl if I get rejected because of LBO performance I’m gonna seriously complain coz this just ain’t fair. Shame on all u guys.
Any updates?
Nah there’s a big cheating scandal with LBO test. Probs investigating and not able to use for evaluation?
I did the test fairly and am very very pissed. How could they be so stupid to have just used same test from last year. I’m scared I’m gonna get rejected now because mine wasn’t as good as those that cheated. I rly hope they figure something out to make things fair…
Tbh I don’t think they care that ppl cheated, how can they know ?
Someone at the firm told me they’re looking into ppl selling the case. What’s actually going on with this LBO test situation? Given that we all cheated isn’t the idea that we don’t go on a public forum and discuss it??
This rly is annoying man. If they reject me coz of LBO then that’s just completely unfair. If I had it in advance I’d have absolutely destroyed it (as anyone would have done). They can’t BS about using the discussion part either coz it would have been so easy to prepare for that too…
Are offers out yet?
This process has been disastrous from A to Z. Who seriously wants to work at this firm?
Best comment on the forum tbh. I completely agree…
I agree that the process has been a complete and absolute shitshow from start to finish. They have these inexperienced kids running the process too which makes it 100x worse. What’s even more crazy is that they now are gonna ding a bunch of us for having case studies/test that can’t compete with the ppl that had info in advance. I’m so completely done with this firm. To anyone considering applying pls avoid at all costs…
Also considering the process started in September. Never seen a process of 3 months with that much time in between interview rounds.
Ah and they offer CHF 10 dinner allowance fyi, which gets you one banana and a bottle of water in Zug.
Has anyone with insight on the inside know what’s going on? How are they addressing this situation? Any predictions of how they’re gonna respond?
Summer Analyst Offers were sent out last Thursday. This was women only, thou
Wrong forum broski
Has anyone else been approached by a journalist asking for info??
Lol really? Please make this a big thing. Hope people get to understand the truth about this joke firm
Me too... Another candidate at the SD had apparently given my name (the message didn’t tell me who). I haven’t yet responded and probably won’t but I know that this is gonna hit PG big time. Not only have they mentioned the LBO test situation but the journalist contacted someone else I spoke to at the SD and there are also allegations of the N Word being dropped casually in interview. Someone is gonna be so badly fired after all this. Whole situation feels like an absolute movie
I told the journalist everything. From start to finish, absolute joke. Yeah I was asked about the racism too. I personally didn’t experience it but was absolutely not surprised. I made something very clear - this isn’t the issue with one process, once interviewer etc.; this was an issue with the firm as a whole. The culture is shit and if I had other options I’d have withdrawn a long time ago.
What was the background for the N word drop? Seems so weird to say it even by accident in an interview process
Inside Paradeplatz newspaper?
No think bigger/more international lol
The next step should be the insta finance pages or efinancialcareers, and then ideally FT
Has anyone heard anything / think we’ll hear back this week?
I don’t know, can someone from the inside give us some insights?
Wtf that last round was so strange
Bro I’m getting cut for sure
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